<p>I am happy to say I recently got my acceptance letter from Boston College! I am so excited but very nervous. I had a SAT score of 1890 and currently have a 3.9 average. I’m a bit nervous that I won’t succeed here because I would be an under average student although I’m a pretty hard working student (and hard on myself most of the time). With a future goal of going to med school, should I forget about such a great school for other schools where I’m average/above average such as Stony Brook University, University of Connecticut , and Boston University ?</p>
<p>I personally found it pretty hard to tell how everyone else at BC performed in high school. You can get good grades as long as you study efficiently and have enough discipline.</p>
<p>If you don’t try, you’ll never know. Don’t ask us, we don’t know anything about you and test scores aren’t a good indicator of future professional competency. Let’s say you went to Boston U instead because you felt that BC was too good for you. Turns out you really love the field you’ve chosen and you’re having a lot of success with it. Would you be alright with going through the rest of your life regretting your decision and thinking “What if?”. Would you be alright knowing you turned down a great school to go somewhere ‘worse’ just because you were scared? If so, don’t let us stop you,</p>
<p>Take the best you can get, realize how lucky you are to get it and then do everything you can to keep it. </p>
<p>Dear Alissab, Boston College gave you their answer to that question. Since they know what it takes to succeed at BC and did a comprehensive review of your qualifications, why doubt them? If you love the school, go for it!</p>
<p>Thank you all! Each response was perfect!</p>
<p>For pre-med, only two things matter (in terms of Stats)
- College GPA
- MCAT Score</p>
<p>1 = The value of your GPA is not contingent on the ranking of your school (as long as it is T100). By this reasoning, it seems that if you’re set on Premed, it is more valuable to go to the school where you can get the highest GPA possible. Also, BC pre-med has weed-out classes like Organic Chemistry (don’t quote me on this) where if you fail, I believe you are dropped from the pre-med track.</p>
<p>2 = The flipside of this is the MCAT score. A tougher school may better prepare you to do well on the MCAT. However, the MCAT is just an exam, which means that with enough studying from good resources you can do well on it, assuming you can self-study material.</p>
<p>3 = In third place comes internships, volunteer opportunities in projects. In addition to a top GPA and strong MCAT scores, Med Schools want to see research (publications preferred), internships at medical centers, volunteering with medical programs, and if you’re ambitious, they want to see you start a program or lead an initiative. This can be done anywhere. Some may argue you have more resources at a stronger school. I think the flipside of that is that weaker schools are more desperate for students to take initiative and may therefore offer more support.</p>