<p>Hi, I'm a rising senior in NJ and I was wondering what the chances of me getting into PharmD schools (Rutgers, Northeastern, URI, St. John's) or 7-year dental program schools (NYU, Tufts, Boston University, UPenn, UMDNJ) are. I do realize that the 7-year dental program is highly selective and if there's absolutely no chance for me, I'm also thinking of going the traditional route, so please don't hesitate to point out and make suggestions!</p>
<p>The sticky situation for me is that I went to elementary, middle, and high school in both Korea and the US. I spent my 9th and 10th grade in Korea, and another year in 10th and 11th in the US (planning on staying senior year haha). Due to the fact that I spent most of my childhood in the US, my GPA from Korea wasn't all that good (they also do not have an accelerated program like honors classes) so it's bringing down my GPA a LOT. I talked to my guidance counselor about it and she said that it was more likely that schools would pay more attention to the grades I got in the US. What are your opinions? Is that really true?</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 9th-3.3
10th in Korea-3.15
10th in US-4.0 (honors alg 2 was the only honors class they would let me take)
11th-4.0 (AP English, AP bio, honors precal, honors chem)
Last time I looked at my transcript, unweighted: 3.5ish?, weighted: 4.3 when I checked last year</p>
<p>SAT: 2320(CR/M/W-760/800/760, single sitting the same as superscored)</p>
<p>SAT II: bio-e (770), bio-m (760), lit (740)</p>
<p>AP classes: bio (5), English lang&comp (5)</p>
<p>*numbers in parentheses are grades participated
Awards:
-RCY (red cross youth) Korea President's Award (9)
-Green Doctors (overseas medical NGO) President's Award (9)
-Hyundai Piano Competition runner-up (10)
-People's Choice Award (teacher recommends student for character and activity within school, 10)
-3 academic awards (2 for math, 1 for highest scorer for chem 1 science league; 11)</p>
<p>EC:
in-school:
-VP of RCY (9)
-president/founder of anthropology club(10)
-art club(10-12, planning on doing it next year, too)
-mural club(10-12, same as art club)
-president of environmental club (10-12, already voted as pres again)
-co-president of future healthcare professionals (10-12, already voted as pres again)
-co-president/co-founder of Asian cultural club (11-12, already voted as pres again)
-peer tutoring (11-12, already appointed)
-national honor society (11-12)
-math league (11-12, already assigned)
-science league chem 1 varsity(11)</p>
<p>outside of school:
-translator and volunteer at Solidarity for Migrant Immigrants (NGO for human rights and health of migrant immigrants and workers in Korea, 10)
-3rd dan (black belt) in Taekwondo (10)
-cellist, pianist, percussionist for children&teen's ensemble at church(10-12)
-editor-in-chief of church's Korean community newspaper(10-12)
-summer school TA (10)
-junior volunteer at hospital(10)
-junior counselor at summer camp (10,11)</p>
<p>Sorry for the long post! I would really love to hear any comments/suggestions because I'm sincerely confused and worried as to what I'm supposed to do or plan at this point... Thanks so much in advance!</p>