Hello, I am a current junior interested in premed,
some colleges I am interested in are John Hopkins, Cornell, Duke, Columbia, NYU, Georgetown, UCLA, University of Washington, and Berkeley
GPA 3.95 (UW) I dunno weighted, took 6 AP classes, all As
SAT 1550
APs AP Biology 5, AP Calculus BC 5, AP Chinese 5
ECs: Black belt Taekwondo (5 years did a few tournaments, didn’t win anything major)
Eagle Scout (7 years)
Guitar (5 years)
Serve in church youth group (3 years)
Vice president of a club helping special needs kids (2 years)
Ocean Science Bowl Vice Captain
Conducted a research project on using machine learning to study earthquakes (didn’t win anything in science fair 
gonna submit it again)
Major Awards:
USABO Semifinalist
IESO training camp participant
Local Ocean Science Bowl 2nd place
National Merit Semifinalist
Do I have a chance of getting into any of these colleges?
I just want a laid back atmosphere as well as the opportunity to make lasting friendships. Another important factor is the support needed to get into a prestigious med school.
Save this to your calendar to read in 4 years. A time when, if it happens you are still premed, you’ll rejoice over admission to any med school. Then have a toast to the younger you and how far you’ve come.
@nzhang063 how was IESO training camp? very competitive?
Yes, you have a chance to get into any of those colleges. You left me wondering how you picked them though as Cornell and NYU are incredibly different and I can’t say I’ve heard “Johns Hopkins” on a “laid back atmosphere” list before.
Lasting friendships can come from any college. That’s far more about the person than the place.
More importantly is the consideration about whether these schools are affordable to you with either need based aid or purely (easily) affordable by your parents or a similar source. The TOP consideration for most students with pre-med is finding an affordable college since med school is pricey and graduating with multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt (by the end of med school) is a hindrance to any career. Have you run the Net Price calculators to ensure these are in your ballpark? They may be. Your post just doesn’t address cost (and others reading should be aware of the importance of cost).
The most important thing to getting into med school will be your grades and MCAT score - coupled with your EC’s. You can do well (or not) at any school too. Work ethic matters. Your foundational stats going in show you are certainly capable.
My son currently attends the University of Rochester med school. They may not be “prestigious” enough for you since I think they are ranked in the 30s (he loves it there, so absolutely no complaints on our end), but they are nice enough for future MD students to post a class profile each year. Here’s his:
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/MediaLibraries/URMCMedia/education/md/documents/2021-profile.pdf
If you change the year in the url you will find that this is a template with so many similar things year after year - aka - they are telling you what they expect to see in successful applicants and how competitive it is. I seriously expect this is not just a UR phenomenon, but one that is likely similar at all med schools.
This site can also have useful (real) statistics about everything from GPA/MCAT to state of residence, etc:
https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/
In summary, look for an affordable school and then do what you need to do on your end to be the most competitive for med school. Don’t plan on the school doing it for you.
@nzhang063 your comments?
Do you know what you call the poor kid who finished last in their med school class at the lowest ranked accredited med school in the country ?
Dr.
First OP needs to get into college. And for that list, I’d ask, where are the health related ECs? I do mean experience in the health delivery arena or advocacy in your community.
You have a shot at getting into those schools, but you will need to apply to less selective colleges also, in addition to some true safety schools, especially in-state schools that are affordable.