Here’s my stats:
GPA: 92.9 unweighted (out of 100) (all honors and AP)
SAT: 1260 (taken in dec junior year, I took it again in june this year and still waiting for scores back), I also took subject tests but they were so bad that were just going to forget them.
ACT: 29 (march junior year)
EC: student council (9-12 senior class treasurer), lacrosse (9 - cut sophomore year ), girls ice hockey (10-12, founder), St Vincent de Paul Club (10-12, leadership position grade 11 and 12), leo club (10-12), winter track (9), spring track (11)
National Honor Societies: National Honor Society, Math, History, Science, Art
Volunteering: National Honor Society, Leo Club, Hospital Volunteer, Counselor in Training
Jobs: counselor (promoted from CIT), Bowling Alley Birthday Party Hostess, Bakery
I hope to major in some sort of science or math premed and kind of want to minor in studio art (i love drawing its a guilty pleasure). I live in New England and wouldn’t like to go more than a direct flight out of Boston and probably not passed the Mississippi. Thank you so much!
The good news is that med schools admissions officers don’t really care too much where you go for undergrad so long as your GPA and MCAT are strong.
The other good news is that nearly every college in the US offers pre-med pre-reqs classes–which are largely lower level science, math & social studies courses.
In your other threads, you mention wanting to do undergrad research. You should be aware that unless you are gunning for top 20, research intensive medical schools, research is the least important pre-med EC and about 15-18% of matriculating medical students report having ZERO research experience.
I’d also consider carefully whether you really want to do the studio art minor. Studio art courses are very time consuming and grading can be very…subjective. Maintaining both a strong overall GPA and a strong science GPA are of paramount importance for pre-meds. (Median GPA for accepted med students was 3.8+ last year.) There will be other ways to indulge your artistic side in college–open studios, private and group lessons, art clubs—all without putting your GPA at risk.
(forgive me, but this list is going to be, like, all liberal arts colleges since that’s somewhat my forte, lmao)
look into lafayette, denison, dickinson, bard, franklin and marshall, and rhodes. you’re within the test score range (i only really looked at your ACT; I wouldn’t send the SAT) for all of those schools. some schools where you’re at the 25th percentile include kenyon, oberlin, uofrichmond, and davidson. if you’re open to applying test-optional, then a multitude of schools can be considered (connecticut college, colby, bowdoin, hamilton, wesleyan, bates, bryn mawr, smith, wake forest, mount holyoke, etc. etc.), but your extracurriculars and gpa would need to make up for what your application is lacking. I’m not sure how the hundred point system works when calculating gpa, but i’m assuming you have a low A- gpa overall? try to bring that up a little bit.
** edit: i placed bryn mawr, mount holyoke, wake forest, and smith in the test-optional category because i’m not very familiar with those schools, therefore i don’t really know the kinds of scores you need to get into them. if you’re within the range(s) for a school, send your scores.
At this point, your ACT is a lot better than your SAT. Let us know what your new SAT score is when it comes out. If you can get your ACT or SAT equivalent to a 30+, you’ll have some larger merit options. For example, Alabama would give you a half-tuition scholarship for your ACT 29, but if you get an ACT 30, you’d get 2/3 tuition award. And if you get an ACT 32, you’d get nearly free tuition.
Your family will contribute $20k per year (from another thread).
With your ACT and a school that gives huge merit for stats, you should have some good choices.
Med schools, PA schools, etc, don’t care where you go to college, so simply find a good school that you like where you will excel. Have you considered PA school? Being a PA is such a wonderful career path. It only takes about 27-30 months of grad school rather than the 7+ years of medical school/residency training. My son’s GF graduated from PA school 1.5 years ago and has a fabulous career, while my son still has years ahead of him as resident.
the reason i might not send my act is bc it is waaaayy better in the english categories rather than math and science, my school’s curriculum is entirely focused on the sat math and i hadn’t done most of that math since seventh or eighth grade. (i went into that test completely blind didn’t even know there was a science section lmao) but in school my english grades are my weakest and you couldn’t pay me to do a humanities degree. since my math is better on my sat i feel it looks better then applying for a stem degree with an act breakdown of math- 27, science- 26, english- 32, reading-30
me again! my ACT math and science scores were about the same as yours, but my english and reading scores were higher. I still ended up at my first choice school. retaking wouldn’t necessarily hurt if you specifically focus on math and science. superscoring is a great loophole in order to obtain a higher recalculated composite score for the schools who will use it. It’s all up to you.
), girls ice hockey (10-12, founder), St Vincent de Paul Club (10-12, leadership position grade 11 and 12), leo club (10-12), winter track (9), spring track (11)