Hi, I’m a hs senior and I am pretty fixated on the pre-med path for college. I am instate for Texas, and if I had to stay in-state I would probably go to Baylor University instead of UT Austin because of the greater concentration on pre-med at the school (UT is hugely diverse and the pre-med population is pretty scattered). My top choice right now is Georgetown Uni, where there’s a program where at the end of sophomore year, you get a chance at skipping the MCAT and going straight to G med school. I’m not just counting on the accelerated program - I’ve also heard great things about the campus and it’s pre-med environment. Do you think, with these credentials, I could make it into Georgetown?
-SAT Score: 2130 (690 read, 730 math, 710 writing)
–planning to retake the new SAT
-GPA 3.4/4*; this is not very good, but I messed up in my math class freshman year, my rank was 127, and then I nearly halved that my junior year, where I stand at about rank 60 (top 10% of my class)
-planning on taking ACT and SAT subject tests in math 2 and chemistry
-Officer of NEHS
-Officer of Red Cross
-playing in orchestra for 8 years, made all area-region this year
-participant of science fair for 13 years, got my twelve year award this year
-went to city science fair 3 times
-received a special award from Houston Academy of Medicine for my sci project
-2nd place in science fair in medical category
-DECA state finalist
-volunteered 100+ hours at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine
-attendee of Youth Medical Summit in Rice University (hosted by Houston Health museum)
-Attendee/helped organize the MECP2 Bi-Annual Conference hosted by the Baylor College of Medicine
-tutored children for 2 years
-took 6 AP classes so far, got a 4/5 on all, going to take 4 more this coming year
-member of Academic Decathlon, Texas division
-I am probably going to be National Merit commended, not sure about being a finalist (the cutoffs are not available yet but I am in the 99th percentile)
*my GPA is not hot at all, but I stand at top 10% in one of the 10 best school in Texas and there’s a drastic improvement from where I was freshman-junior year. I hope colleges look at improvements…I went from mostly A’s and a few B’s to all A’s.