Chance Me? Suggest Other Choices?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a junior in High School, so I still have another year, but I'm strongly trying to decide on colleges and am interested in suggestions of what else to do before college. So far I've got four college picks and am open to suggestions.</p>

<p>I'm looking to go to college for preveterinary medicine then later on to veterinary school.</p>

<p>My info:</p>

<p>School (grade wise)
- 3.5 GPA (2 AP classes this year, and I've taken 4 accelerated classes)
- my grades have always been A or B, my midterm/final test grades not quite. The only final grade I ever got below a B was a D+ (I got A's & B's for quarter grades, but did horrible on midterm&final tests)
- SAT scores around 500-600's for all (those scores are from when I took them was in 8th grade, I'm guessing my scores will be much better when I take then for real this spring)
-I'm doubling up on science courses this year (taking physics & anatomy) and possibly tripling up next year (AP Bio AP chem, Microbiology) and possibly trying to take another this summer.
- my high school is in the top 650</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
- member of spanish club sophmore year
- member of culinary club junior year
- on the jv softball team sophmore year</p>

<p>Job/Volunteering:
- worked at a pizzeria for 4 months
- am currently working at a veterinary hospital (and plan to continue there until I graduate)
- volunteered at local town events (library summer reading sign-up, apple festival, strawberry festival)</p>

<p>Is there any other information needed?</p>

<p>The Colleges:
University of California - Berkeley
North Carolina State University - Raleigh
Campbell University
Clemson University</p>

<p>I figure Berkeley is pretty far out of my reach, but I think I have a okay chance at the others</p>

<p>Please feel free to message me to other things I should do to prepare for college or gain outside experience!</p>

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<p>anyone? please</p>

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<p>If money is an issue at all, I’d take Berkeley off the list. At $50K a year and raising for the OOS, with many taking more than 4 years to get the classes they need to graduate, it’s not the best deal unless they have a major that would really serve you beyond the others.</p>

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<p>Okay :slight_smile: I’ve done a little more research and my list has changed a little:</p>

<p>Campbell University - Safety
Clemson University - match
North Carolina State University - match/low reach
University of California, Davis - low reach</p>

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<p>I only know about Berkeley… so I’ll tell you what I think.
So at Berkeley, they look for good numbers… like 2200’s and 4.3+ gpas… (but they still accept a lot of people who have lower numbers). I think you will need to bring up your scores a lot in order for them to consider you…</p>

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<p>I’m a little confused as to how people have 4.3 GPA’s, on a basic level don’t A’s = 4, B’s = 3, C’s = 2, etc? And AP classes it’s +1, A’s = 5, B’s = 4? Maybe I’m just calculating my GPA wrong?</p>

<p>My Grades (fresh-junior year):
A+ = none
A = 6
A- = 3
B+ = 5
B = 4
B- = 1
D = 1
total of 20 courses not including two AP’s (B- & A- in those when unweighted) & I’m not sure if Accel classes are counted as more (I have taken 4 accel classes)</p>