Chance me for BS/MD with low gpa

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Demographics: Male from NJ, family income 250K ORM

GPA: 3.71 unweighted gpa, 4.0 weighted gpa , school does not give rank, (have a uptrend that goes like this- ~3.5, 3.6,3.9UW). Faced adversity freshman year.

SAT: 1480 SAT (700 RW, 780 math) from three sitting(yikes), Math 2 subject- 790, Chem- 690(oooops)

might take sat again for 1500+

Medical extracurriculars/volunteering: 300 normal volunteering(not hostpital), 30 hours shadowing PT, ~5 hours Family Physician, Medical Summer Program at CMSRU. Anatomy Dual enrollment at rowan. EMT certification, BLS and CPR certification. Junior Firefighter

In-school clubs/activities: HOSA President/Founder, member of NHS, Varsity Robotics Team(FRC), FBLA, Unicef/Red cross(leadership), and Operation Smile(board)

Research: 2 research, 1 likely publish till applications

Coursework: 10 AP Classes only know that I got a 3 on AP Chem but taking bio,calc ab, micro/macro this year, and 5 other aps next year

Other: Summer program at rutgers in toxicology, business internships at 2 startups

Awards-

Have several regional/state and 1 national accomplishment/s in medicine and business

LORS-

Spanish- 8/10 (had for 2 years and went to after school often)

English- 7.5/10(only one year but i think she shows me well)

Bio- 7/10

Club advisor- 9/10 (has seen my try hard at comps lol and i talk to her on a daily basis about upcoming plans for HOSA and FBLA)

Programs I will apply to: Drexel, NJIT/NJMS, Rutgers/NJMS, UMKC, BU SMED, Stevens Institute of Tech/NJMS, UofA/SUNY, GWU, Caldwell/NJMS, Adelphi/SUNY, Syracuse/SUNY, ACPHS/SUNY, Rowan BS/DO, CWRU, Montclair/NJMS.

Do I even have a small chance at any top 30 with that sort of gpa? What should i do to improve for bs/md? I know my gpa is a** and I am going to do Hospital volunteering over the summer.

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Just my opinion: I think that any combined BS/MD program is a high reach. I think that you should aim to do your undergrad at an affordable university with a very good premed program. You should plan to put in a huge effort to keep your university GPA as high as possible while getting the appropriate experience in a medical environment. I also think that you should avoid debt for undergrad.

I think that you are going to find premed classes at university to be very challenging. Keeping a 3.7 at university with premed classes is going to be tougher than getting a 3.7 in high school.

A high school GPA of 3.7 is very good and is way above average. However, it is not above average for students who are actually going to end up in medical school.

Fortunately there are a lot of universities with very good premed programs. NJ has some of them.

There are others on CC who are more knowledgeable in this area than I am.

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The acceptance rates for BS/MD programs are lower than the rates for elite and top 20 colleges. Think…single digits.

Certainly you can apply and see what happens, but your chances, like everyone else’s who apply are not assured…even with perfect stats.

Your list of colleges is varied, which is good.

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Hi, So I have a 3.7 because of a very bad freshman year with a lot of adversity. This year(junior) I am ending with a 4.0 with 4 APS. I am able to develop the work ethic needed for college because I have had a strong uptrend. Do you think that my extracurrciulars can make up for that? I am going to apply to wide varities of bs md programs and just hope for one acceptance.

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Are you aware of any new bs md programs which are not receiving as many applications in a cycle? I know one in NJ which doesn’t have a med school graduation class yet.

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Once more. Apply and see. But have a Plan B.

BS/MD programs have low single digit acceptance rates…lower than the most elite college acceptance rates.

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I do think that this will help you to do well in university.

I did notice that you have a lot of experience in a medical environment. This should help you also.

I think that this is correct. I think that it is worth sending a few applications to BS/MD programs. However, also definitely plan for the option of just getting into a good university, working very hard while completing the premed requirements, and then applying to medical school. You uptrend will help you with this. Your medical experience, assuming that you keep getting more as an undergraduate student, will also help you with this.

You have come a long way since your freshman year of high school. Keep up the good work and strong effort and it will pay off one way or another.

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