ok where do i begin
I go to a T10 (actually may be like T15 now idk) and i’m in my sophomore year and ngl i’m struggling a little bit but i’m keeping it vaguely together. I am in this weird place where i’m not so far off course but i’m slightly derailed.
First year was rough (especially first quarter) I was in a science program that heavily emphasised physics and I was bad at physics (A-,B+,A-) and math was a struggle as well. I dropped the program this past fall and am now majoring in bio with minors in Math and Dance. I may drop math if it becomes too risky for my GPA but it is my intellectual love, i just think numbers are really cool.
orgo is kinda destroying me from the inside out (A-,B) for the first two quarters and i still have one more to go
my gpa is a 4.661 and sgpa is 4.57 i think
I guess i’m just looking for confirmation that i’m still in the game, i’m almost done with premeds but i have been doing really well in my high level bios (easy A in advance genetics despite being the only sophomore in a class of seniors) and i enjoy them a lot too.
My dream is to go to med school in Boston, is there a chance that any will still have me?
I still have to do my volunteering but i have a TON of shadowing hours from following friends of my mom (she’s a DR) at offices and in hospitals, i have observed surgery and births and office visits and on call staff overall that experience has made me more sure this is what i want to do.
anyway sorry for rambling
thanks for help
@Ali2343 In order to get meaningful responses, please recalculate your GPA using AMCAS standards for quality points. Because for AMCAS and most colleges, your gpa cannot be > 4.0
Use this calculator–https://gpacalculator.net/college-gpa-calculator/
Boston is tough place to get a med school acceptance. Because there’s Harvard (nuff said), BU (which gets over 15,000 application for 175 seats),Tufts (which is the most expensive med school in the country w/ COA in the $95-98K/year range) and UMASS (Are you MA resident? If not, cross this off your list right now.) Each Boston med school has a very different mission and you need to fit the mission of the school to have a chance for acceptance. Go read their mission statements and look at the incoming class profile for each school.
If you want to go to med school, you need to be willing to go wherever you get accepted --even if that means moving to the middle of a cornfield in flyover country.
The same is true for residency (where the great computer program in Princeton, NJ, has the final say).
While it’s great you have shadowing, what you really need to do is get your hand dirty (both figuratively and literally) and start other ECs. You’ll need leadership roles in your activities, clinical volunteering (though not right now during the current public health crisis), community service with the disadvantaged, and clinical or lab-based hands on research experience.
You really won’t be able to know if med school is the right path for you until you’re done a significant amount of clinical work. Shadowing just lets you see the barest sliver of what a doctor’s life is like.
BTW, I suggest you don’t give on the math if you enjoy it. Math gives you career options in case you’re among the 60% of med school applicants every year who don’t get any acceptances.
(FWIW, both my daughter did double majors in college and one of each of their majors was math. Math really does give you better career opportunities in case med school doesn’t work out.)
lol sorry i actually meant 3s instead of 4s. i talked with my mom and some friends and i feel much better now. I am a very determined and realistic person, I know I can do this. Thanks for the help