<p>Hey I was just wondered if I had any chance at some med programs</p>
<p>GPA: 3.94UW, 4.5-6 (?)W
SAT: 770M, 720CR, 760WR 2250 comp.
ACT: 32 retaking in December
SAT IIs: Math2 and Physics in Dec. (guessing ~800Math2 and 700+ Physics)
Rank: n/a (probably 3/88)</p>
<p>tough courseload...i wouldn't say toughest (9 APs and 1 college course: Cal III)</p>
<p>APs: Cal BC (self-study):4, AB sub:5, Human geo: 5, World Hist: 4</p>
<p>ECs (kinda scattered):
Research at Local University in Engineering for past 2 years: 11-12
-Researched Thin-film RTDs in 11th
-Researching SIS Joesphson Junction...Possibly could be published
Literary Journal (Senior Editor this year): 10-12
MUN: 10-12
Interact Club: 10-12
Eng. Club: 11-12 (VP then Prez this year)
Sci. Club: 11-12 (VP this year)
Ice hockey: 9-10 (stopped due to research and family issues)
Tutoring: 11-12
Leisure racquetball: 10-12
Also sports editor for newspaper if it matters...
100 hrs. Volunteering at hospital</p>
<p>Awards:
NMSF
AMC school winner, AIME qual.
Regional Sci Fair awards (3rd in eng, 2 special awards)
State Journalism Awards (2 article awards, 3rd place in an essay contest)
School awards</p>
<p>South Asian Male from AR at small private school
parents are both doctors</p>
<p>As far as my intentions to going into medicine, I want to eventually get a MD/Phd and do research and clinical work. I always thought it would be cool to be like Dean Kamen and ivent my own devices.</p>
<p>I guess I'd like to know about Rice/Baylor, Brown PLME, and Northwestern HPME...I would also like to go to MIT, but that's besides the point...</p>
<p>I'd say you definately have a shot. So many extremely well qualified people apply to HPME and PLME that I can't really say that you will get in...but I think you have a good shot.</p>
<p>From what I have gathered, these programs are less concerned with your raw academics than they are with your healthcare experience and interest.</p>
<p>Therefore, interviews and essays are of the utmost importance, while academics are simply the pre-requisite, expected criteria of applicants.</p>
<p>The homogenizing influence of grades clearly puts many people in the same bag, and it takes some genuine interest in the field to impress the medical people.</p>
<p>After all, you will be interviewed by med school staff, which likely means less concern with high school BS and who you actually are as a person.</p>
<p>I know a few people who know other people who have gotten perfect ACT scores, etc, and have gotten denied to these programs while others will less-than-stellar academics have gotten in. I think it is absolutely awesome that this occurs, because it guarantees that the program has a group of people that actually care about the field, which makes for a much better learning experience.</p>
<p>yea, there's like thousands of people that have 4.5's, #1, etc., and 2300+ SAT's, 34+ ACT's, so when you are right there, we cant really tell if you're in or not, but we can just tell you that you're not out of it. u know?</p>
<p>It's really not fair. They advocate antiracist policies, but produce discriminatory procedures. Really, it is a class, not a race, issue. Help those who are poor, not those that are a minority. Yes, chances are that if you're a minority, you are poor - that's fine. Yet, one shouldn't get preference for being a minority if his mother/father is a Harvard graduate who earn in the six figures. Just goes to show, how a capitalist system reproduces itself, even when it is trying to "justify" equality...</p>
<p>hear hear hydrogen.
i heard about a girl today who told me she would never send a picture of herself bc harvard and princeton would then "call her out" on her claiming of her race. >:-/</p>