Chances for Accelerated Med Program?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I want to get into an accelerated medical program like Northwestern HPME or UC San Diego Medical Scholars. I realize there is a great deal of competition (only 12 spots at UC San Diego) and I appreciate your honest assessments. </p>

<p>Please suggest some other accelerated medical programs. Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!</p>

<p>BASICS:
Chinese American male
Currently a junior
California resident
Middle - Upper Middle class (anywhere from $60k-120k income bracket)</p>

<p>Normal Recs
My essays should not be too bad.</p>

<p>GPAs:
Freshman year: 4.0 UW
Sophomore year: 4.0 UW, 4.5 W
Junior year: 4.0 UW, 4.333 W
Cumulative (10-11): 4.0 UW, 4.42W
School only gives A,B,C,D,F. No pluses or minusess.
School doesn't rank, but I'm easily in the top 5% out of 450.
The school's somewhat competitive. We had 6 people get into Stanford this year; a dozen or so more got into MIT, Harvard, etc.; at least 30 in Ivy leagues and at least 60 in Berkeley.</p>

<p>Not the most rigorous curriculum available at competitive public school.
Our school has only Chemistry,Precalculus, Japanese, Spanish, and French as honors classes. Currently taking AP Biology and AP Calc BC. Not taking APUSH. I plan for 3 APs and 1 honors for senior year.</p>

<p>TEST SCORES:
SATI: 800 math, 800 critical reading, 790 writing (studied from the blue book)
PSAT: 213 as a junior, 220 as a sophomore
SAT Subject Tests:
MathIIC: 800
Chinese: 800
BIO: 800 (Took it May, expected score)</p>

<p>AP Comp Sci: 5
Took the AP Calculus BC and Biology tests in May.</p>

<p>Community College Classes at De Anza College:
Political Science 4 credits A
Introduction to Java 4 credits A
Elementary Statistics with Probability 5 credits A
Intermediate Problem Solving with C 5 credits A</p>

<p>Will take (Expecting As from all of them):</p>

<p>Summer of 2006
Calculus 1c
Principles of Macroeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics</p>

<p>Senior Year
Physics 4a, 4b, and probably 2-3 more</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS:</p>

<ul>
<li>Peer tutor at school - around 30 hours</li>
<li>President of the Go Club member (9-10)</li>
<li>Volunteered at library for 2 hours a week for the past year - around 60
hours</li>
<li>California Scholarship Federation Club - member (10,11), hopefully an
officer position next year.</li>
<li>Volunteered at community center sorting cans, bagging food, crush
boxes, taking out trash, sorting rotten food, cleaning for 1.5 hours a
week sophomore year. -around 60 hours</li>
<li>Cross Country as a senior</li>
</ul>

<p>AWARDS:</p>

<ul>
<li>National Merit Commended</li>
</ul>

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<p>ummm well your stats are excellent but you EC's are weak. I think you would be out of reach at a 6 year program at UCSD or the UCSF-Berkeley program. You might want to look into the BU or UC Riverside program. The 6 year medical programs are INCREDIBLY competitive so I think many people would have your test scores but may be more advanced in the EC area. But I would give it a try...</p>

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<p>Your numbers won't keep you out of anywhere.</p>

<p>You need ECs that show an interest in medicine.</p>

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<p>you might want to take SAT II Chem? HMPE requires sat II chem, just so you know.</p>

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<p>i plan on taking it. It will be tough to get that 800... I will get it though.</p>

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<p>bumpity bump bump bump</p>

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<p>You def. need Med. related EC's; go volunteer at a hospital/try to do research something! Even with your perfect scores (amazing), I don't think you'll get admitted over kids with a passion for medicine just b/c you have no med ecs. Try writing an essay relating to your interest in the field/getting more Med Ecs overall =p.</p>

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<p>volunteer at a hospital or do some science research</p>

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<p>WOW get off this site! Your definetly set! My cuzz got in to UCSD with worse stats then yours. You should even try for ivies.</p>