Good Premed Schools With My Stats?

College Search & Selection
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I want to go into Neuroscience, what schools are reasonable for me with these stats?

-GPA: Unweighted4.0
-Weighted: 4.5 (my school caps at 4.5)
-Rank: #1 / 475, all A’s so far

-SAT 1: 2060, waiting for October score (hoping for 2100+)
-SAT 2: Bio M (720, retake in November), Math 2(770)

-10th grade:
Gate English 10
Honors Chem
AP Euro (4)
Honors Math Analysis
Biomed Human Body Systems
Honors Spanish 3

-11th grade:
AP Physics 1 (3)
APUSH (5)
Biomed Medical Intervention
AP Calc AB (5)
AP Spanish 4 (4)
AP Lang (4)
*AP Bio (4,self-study)
*APES (4 self-study)

-Planned 12th grade:
AP Gov/econ
AP eng lit
AP Spanish 5
AP Bio (I know its redundant since i already took the test, but this is the only AP class i have left to take)
Biomed Environmental Sustainability
Calc 2,3,4 at local CSU

-Extracurriculars: Interact Club (fundraiser 10th grade, president 11th grade, will serve as past-prez/board of directors senior year), NHS (VP senior year), Asian Culture Club (VP senior year), Spanish Honors Society (treasurer 11th/12th grade, received bilingual certificate), Violin (associate concertmaster for high school orchestra 11th grade, concertmaster 12th grade), Chinese Zither -google it- (5+ years, played for many local events, received a lot of local awards, played live on National Public Radio twice), tutoring younger kids (paid though, not volunteer), CSF

-Volunteer: 75+ hours for Interact Club, 80+ hours for volunteering at an Alzheimer’s Adult Care Center, 20+ hours for the Chinese American Association of my county)

-Worked at my local Cal state in a biology project with a Chevron funded program

-Chinese American, female

-I’ve participated in the Chevron Project Lead the Way Biomedical program for all 4 years

-CA resident

2

You are one of the stongest students in the nation and have clearly applied yourself in diverse subjects. In that sense, your application would be “reasonable” almost anywhere. For a sampling of schools that would meet your academic needs and where you would generally have a good, but not guaranteed, chance of admission, consider: UC-Berkeley, Bates, Carleton, Colgate, Cornell, Emory, Grinnell, Hamilton and the University of Rochester. These schools range from smaller, beautiful and woodsy to larger and semi-urban. UR is notable for having one of the country’s strongest music programs. Beyond academics, you are free to define other qualities that would make a school a good fit for you.

3

Berkeley, Irvine and UCSD would be would be among my first choices.

4

What can you afford?

5

Since you have a high GPA, then the better UCs are likely choices. UC’s love top GPAs.


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SAT 1: 2060, waiting for October score (hoping for 2100+)

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What is your M+CR?

What is your parents’ budget for college?

6

Holy Cross has very good pre-med program.