You might try Duke, Washington St. Louis, RPI, Wesleyan, and Northwestern as reaches. If you keep getting As, I think you have a shot at schools at that level. It is important to find a school you like and are comfortable with. Also, not getting into a top school is not going to hurt your medical school chances. I think your medical school chances are good, because with the scores you are showing it is likely you will score high on the MCAT.
What are some examples of hand on things i can do to show my passion. The things I want to do I cant anymore bc my schooled banned them/ doesnt allow them because of past accidents
Do ECs outside of school. Not only does that show your true interest - you didn’t just sign up for what was offered, you made your own outside program/course - but it never hurts to have ECs that are unique to you.
Who cares if school doesn’t allow something? Do it on your own offsite.
They don’t care about your passion for medicine, as you are applying for general undergraduate admissions. Getting into a better school for undergraduate is not going to help your medical school admissions chances. You seem overly intense about this.
I’m not sure how OP did pursue this “passion.” She raised money for programs in other countries. She can roll up her sleeves in her own community. They may not care about passion, per se (i.e., talk is cheap.) But they care how an applicant made choices. Or not.
@sattut I guess I am a little too tense about it, but theres a girl in my grade who has an older brother and American studied parents who takes all honors and ap (her brother told her what classes to take). The brother went to a state school as he was the oldest child and had no one to guide him, I am in that situation as my parents did not study in America, I have no other family here, and I am the oldest child- the ginue pig. This girl does substance abuse, vapes, cheats etc. but she has amazing rigor and sat scores, and I guess I am tense because I realize that me chances next to hers are nothing (she is also a pre med) and I don’t know i am super anxious now
Your chances for med school are really good. You should be able to score really high on the MCAT based on your SAT and SAT II scores. Med schools will take you with MCATs and a high GPA from a top 100 school, which you should easily get into.
@bbixl145 trying to compare yourself to another student will make you anxious and is not actually useful. Denigrating other students (about whom you almost certainly know less than you think you do, no matter how good the rumor mill is at your school) reflects badly on you and isn’t helpful either . You have to run your own race,
Your package is what it is. The classes you have taken, the activities you have been involved with, your grade, your test scores: all of these add up to your package.
Fwiw, imo, if you really want to go to med school, JHU is the hard way to do it.
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@primeprime11, it’s not good form to hijack somebody else’s thread- go start your own!
nobody replied to mine lol @collegemom3717
Yeh, JHU is super intense and med schools don’t adjust GPA enough for school. Your chances are probably better from somewhere good, but not top 30. When I went there, there was bad stuff going on, like a large portion of the premeds were bought in and they eliminated the honor code because they were openly cheating in groups. I don’t think it is like that now, but in someways it is even more intense now. Some people who are doing well and want to be doctors drop out of there because they can’t take the atmosphere.
OP needs to understand “weeding” among premeds and which colleges are tougher. It means the vast bulk of kids who want a med future fail to reach committee endorsement. It can be brutal and is a reason to find the colleges where you can do your best, where the track is handled cooperatively, rather than competitively. Most colleges that give stats on how many kids get into one of their top med school choices are talking about a radically culled number.
And see what you can do with local needs, over the next 10 months.
The SAT IIs are really good, above average for students admitted to top Ivies, and you did them as a junior. I can’t promise what kind of school you will get into with the quotas or that you will get into med school for sure with the crazy premed business and so on. However, you will do really well, and you need to calm down and proceed step by step.
Hopkins is tough. There was discussion of someone who got into med school with a 3.2 from there after a special masters degree program. Top 30 and Ivy schools don’t cut out so many students from premed programs, but it is hard to get the GPA med schools want from some top schools. I don’t think you will be hurt at all if you go to a 60th or so ranked school.
And this is just a general question (has nothing to do w jhu or any specific colleges) but do colleges use your w or uw gpa? my hs only sends weighted, so would colleges recalculate that or just leave it as is
Competitive holistic colleges look at your transcript. Not just gpa.
does anyone have any recs for safties, reaches, and matches I should consider in the New England and Mid Atlantic Region?
^ anyone?
Bump please!