<p>I have a 3.4UW gpa and a 2180 sat CR:680 M:740 W:760 780 Math IIC and 660 BIO but i am retaking the bio.
I have good extracurriculars and i have taken honors history/chemistry/math/french im taking AP calculus BC next year and honors physics
Extracirriculars
Varsity cross country 9th-12th
JV basketball 9th
Varsity basketball 10th,12th
Varsity tennis 9-12th MVP
All country orchestra division 4
technical support assistant award
Mu alpha Theta
Nyssma 9th and 10th grade
Art Schola Candidate
Robotics club/music club/math club
I do a lot of volunteer work also i have A LOT of things that i can list</p>
<p>Boston University
Boston College
UMichigan
Cornell
Vanderbilt
Northwestern
nyu
stony brook
JHU
Bucknell
Carnegie mellon
Union College
Emory
Tufts
this is my list can anyone give me other schools that are good and i have a chance at getting in?</p>
<p>Your GPA is too low for many of the schools on your list…your sat is ok, your e.c.s are too scattered/have no focus (unless you can get recruited for sports)…</p>
<p>Boston University: reach/match
Boston College: reach/match
UMichigan: reach
Cornell: reach
Vanderbilt: reach
Northwestern: reach
nyu: reach
stony brook: match/safety (depending on your in state/ out of state status)
JHU: reach
Bucknell: reach/match
Carnegie mellon: reach
Union College: match
Emory: reach
Tufts: reach/match</p>
<p>I would recommend Wake Forest-match (has med school acceptance rate in 70-80% range, which is pretty high), George Washington-match/reach, Tulane-match, Case Western-match, and Drexel-safety.</p>
<p>Generally, you want to look for universities that have medical schools since it’ll be easier for you to gain clinical and research experience by volunteering at the university hospital and doing research at the labs within school of medicine. Also, I would strongly discourage you from attending any large public schools since they tend to offer lots of intro pre med science courses designed to weed out students. And you should also take a look at small, liberal arts colleges w/ strong science programs (i.e. Swarthmore, Bucknell, Harvey Mudd, etc).</p>
<p>You should apply to wherever you want to, but personally I would apply to less number of reach schools and add more match/safeties to your list. Maybe take out Carnegie Mellon?</p>
<p>Apply to them all if money and effort are not issues. Also, I wouldn’t say your EC’s are scattered. You have sports, music and tech. Not so unusual, seems great.</p>
<p>The 3.4 UW will hold you back a little unless your high school is very tough so your class rank is still top 10% or whatever. Otherwise, the most competitive schools:</p>
<p>Boston College
UMichigan
Cornell
Vanderbilt
Northwestern
NYU
JHU
Carnegie Mellon
Emory
Tufts</p>
<p>are all reaches with fairly low odds, but not impossible you would get into 1 or 2. Which 1 or 2 is much harder to say, but if you go ahead and apply to all these just be psychologically prepared for a number of non-acceptance letters.</p>
<p>The others:</p>
<p>Boston University
Stony Brook
Bucknell (on the border, low admission rate of 30% but your stats are OK for it)
Union College</p>
<p>I think you have a good shot at, as well as a decent shot if you apply to the schools Kevinc2 mentions. You could add U Miami to that list. But BU and BC cannot both be reach/match, BC much harder to get into. The average test scores at BC almost 100 points higher, and the admission rate at BC is 30% while at BU is 60%.</p>
<p>Oh yes, I believe so. You SAT over their 75th percentile, and your GPA probably only a little below the average. Your sports and music are strong personal qualities. Based on that information, at least, I would be quite surprised if you were not accepted, and you might see a merit scholarship offer. It doesn’t look like you took many AP’s so that is a bit of a negative unless your school just doesn’t offer many, which does happen sometimes. Apply EA, it is non-binding and you will find out much more quickly that way.</p>
<p>a “good premed” school is one that you enjoy attending, where you get the type of attention and guidance you need, and where you have the opportunity to take part in research (a bonus, not required) For the most part the school is not going to get you into med school, what you do in school is. Here is an excellent intro to premed [Amherst</a> College Guide for Premedical Students](<a href=“http://www3.amherst.edu/~sageorge/guide2.html]Amherst”>Amherst College Guide for Premedical Students)</p>
<p>Like others said, your GPA is a liiiitle bit on the low side, but I think your ECs will help out your application. You can also look into some more BA/MD programs (you already have BU and Stony Brook) where you get guaranteed admission to med school, ie schools along the lines of [BA/MD</a> School Listing - Medical and Dental School Help](<a href=“http://www.medicalhelpnet.com/content/view/28/46/]BA/MD”>http://www.medicalhelpnet.com/content/view/28/46/)</p>
<p>if you go to like BU or stony brook do you have to apply to the medical program? or can you just apply to liberal arts then go to med school later on</p>
<p>Let’s be clear, Wash U is a top notch school. Pre-med consists of a handful of fairly entry level courses, except maybe for Organic Chem. All schools offer these courses and they really don’t vary much, except for the level of competition from your peers. Does WUSTL have great research ooportunities besides? Sure, but that is not required and lots of other schools have similar opportunities.</p>
<p>There is no question that if a person can survive the competition at WUSTL, they are very likely a great candidate for med school. And to be clear, I am not saying Wash U is cut-throat, I am saying it has a lot of really smart pre-med students. But mikemac has it exactly right, one should look for a school that is the best fit overall. Besides, so many kids that are just as sure as I imagine the OP is that they want to go to med school change their mind. This makes it even more important you are at a school you really like for all the right reasons.</p>
<p>BA/MD programs are good in a way that you can relax little bit more (although you still got to maintain good gpa) and take more classes/electives that you want to. Problem is that BA/MD programs are really competitive (you gotta have stats equivalent to getting into ivy league schools)…</p>
<p>Not sure easier is the right term, but it is much more competitive trying to get into a BA/MD program. To be quite blunt, if we are talking about the 7 ande 8 year programs right out of high school, you are not close to having the stats to get into one of those programs. Focus on doing very well in all your courses at college so you come out with like a 3.7-3.8, and then if you are still interested in med school and do well on the MCAT, you will be fine.</p>
<p>Tufts is harder to get into, if that is what you mean. Not sure what you are asking about the medical program. Do you mean pre-med or med school? Pre-med I already answered, there really are no differences in the programs anywhere, there is no such thing as a pre-med major. As far as medical schools, I would assume Tufts is more highly ranked, but I don’t really know. As far as actually better, that is pretty subjective.</p>
let me put this clearly so you don’t harbor any illusions or waste valuable time better spent elsewhere. You have zero chance of getting into a 7-year BA/MD program; in fact you’re not even a very good candidate for the more selective colleges, and the 7-year programs are if anything harder to get into since they only take a few people each year and top colleges take thousands.</p>
<p>In general you seem focused on “better medical program” as if colleges have magic pixie dust and just going to a college with the better dust is going to greatly enhance your prospects. Not the case, and this portends ill for your chances of academic success.