<p>thanks dunnin! i am taking the act oct 25th so HOPEFULLY i can do better! and thanks for letting me know what i should emphasize! i think i am actually writing my essay about that! :)</p>
<p>and thanks dntw and esopterdactyl! i do have some safties like fisk university and oxford college of emory, but i decided not to mention them cause i wont apply to fisk unless i get rejected everywhere else becasue they still let you apply over the summer for fall enrollment. hmm, maybe i underestimated vandy, i know its a great school! </p>
<p>ohh and my research is prett insignificant! lol kinda sad i know, i wasnt the pi so i just followed protocol for one of them, but for the other, we are writing up a paper! but it just shows that i did SOMETHING over the summer i guess! </p>
<p>haha thanks for all the comments!!</p>
<p>p.s. any books/suggestions for improving my act score??</p>
<p>i guess so lol, i quess i can mark them off my list! lest work for me :) haha
im hoping someone who has experience with the med programs can see this and give me suggestions!</p>
<p>You have to cut down your school list 25 is way way way too much in fact ten is pretty big. If I were you, chop it down into 2 safeties. 3-4 matches rest (3/4) reaches which are attainable. You don't need super safeties cause your scores/rank are decent enough but don't overpile your list with too many reach schools.</p>
<p>vanderbilt (saftey)
rice/baylor (8 yr med program),
brown plme,
umkc (6 yr med program),
gwu (7 year med program),
umiami (7 year med program)
duke,
case western (med program)
u Chicago
upenn
u san fransisco (med program)
UNC
UCLA (med program)
USC(med program)
uva</p>
<p>ahh i cant cut it down anymore!!!
so is there (HONESTLY) really no hope for me at yale, princeton, or stanford? :(</p>
<p>There isn't "no hope", people just won't say you are a shoe-in like you seem to want them to (and surprise you really aren't). Also, as has been said before, Vanderbilt really isn't a safety for anyone.</p>
<p>I suggest cutting it down to eight colleges so you can give other people a chance. Seriously, you probably haven't seriously looked at more than two or three of those schools. I could be wrong, but in my small experience a lot of people just look for the top name schools and just apply away. Also, premed is probably the most competitive major out there making med programs more competitive than the college itself..</p>
<p>thats true. well i have done research on all these colleges and i included lesser know schools such as university of missouri and university of miami because i either want to go to a school that has a med program or a prestigious school where i will stand a better chance of getting into med school</p>
<p>My friend who used to do research in the same lab as me went to the University of Missouri med program. I don't know much more about it but she seemed to like it.</p>
<p>I don't believe Univ of San Fran, UCLA, or UMichigan have combined med programs (unless you're just referring to premed majors). UCSD has one but it's only for CA residents.</p>
<p>really?? my counselor gave me a list an those two school were on it! how do you know they dont!? maybe they changed their policy recently because the list i have is a bit outdated.</p>
<p>cut yale and princeton, among about 5-10 others, for the sake of the sanity of all involved in your college applications process... including your teachers and other students really aiming at 1 dream school and a few others...Princeton doesnt have graduate medicine, so you may want to look for a college that feeds its premeds into its top notch med school</p>
<p>Vanderbilt is NOT a safety. It isn't even a match for you. Vanderbilt is a reach for just about anyone. Your test scores make it a reach for you no matter how well connected you think you are.</p>
<p>i think i already adressed the vandy is not a saftey issue in an earlier post in this thread. what if i said both my parents were on the selection comittee and all 5 of my older siblings went there and i am the goddaughter of the dean of admissions and i have already been accepted under the counter? haha THEN would it be a saftey?!? lol</p>
<p>you want to be a doctor but your dream school is stanford? </p>
<p>stanford's weakest area in terms of placement for graduate school is medical school (their strongest being buisness) </p>
<p>why dont you pick some medical programs (if you don'd mind working harder for 6 years or so) instead of just arbitrarily applying to us news rankings top schools</p>
<p>if you truly love stanford, then go for it, but if your not going to 4.0 it then it isn;t going to help </p>
<p>and narrow your list down, your just clogging admissions offices</p>
<p>hey thanks for the suggestions!
i am only applying to brown's plme program (from the ivies)
and i think i am gonna end up at a med program, wherever i find myself the happiest! </p>
<p>does anyone know more about the med programs/ selectivity i mentioned above?
thanks!</p>
<p>UCLA does not have a med program for freshman applicants. Applying as an OOS to the top UCs with a 31 ACT will be difficult. If you do apply to UCs you must calculate your UCGPA. UCs also require 2 SAT IIs (unless that's changed this year). UCSD med program is by invitation only as it is highly selective, min SAT 2250 and success in a rigorous courseload in the sciences and math. USC's BacMed program is highly selective as well, with a separate application, and an interview if you are considered. Only around 30 students are accepted to that program. Your GPA and rank are great, but you are missing AP Chem and AP Calc which could hurt you in applying to the combined med programs. I agree with others that you need to consider more safeties with good reputations in pre med.</p>