<p>I am now a senior and it time to apply for college. I have been looking at the UMKC 6 year Medical program ever since the beginning of sophomore year (i know its early) to get ready to be accepted. I have been looking at different posts around the website relating to this school and I could not find anything that fits my situation exactly, so let me tell you what has happened with me.....
I first started high school taking easy classes freshman year. I did perfect and got straight A's in every class (surprise) :). When I entered sophomore year I entered honors sceince and math classes. Again I got perfect A's. Then during my junior year I took pre-calc, anatomy and physiology, ap biology, and sociology. I took everything other than history and english cause I am not that well even though I get A's in them. Then I took the ACT which I thought I would do good on but it turns out not....I got a 28. :( My parents have enrolled me in a Kaplan Course to help me even though I think it is not that good. For my senior year I am going to take AP CALC AB, AP Chemistry, Physics, Exploring Health Professions and again regular history and english classes.
Now for my extracurricular activities I did not know that there was a benefit of them all the time I was in high school up to the time where my parents and counselor had a college prep meeting. Don't blame my parents they studied overseas where they did not need to go through this type of application. I was lucky though because during the time in high school I taught myself everything about computer repair because I thought it would benefit me for college. Suddenly I went from learning computer repair to actually repairing computers. I then started my own business around the community in my area. Even though the business was not that much of a success my counselor said it would look excellent on my resume. Flashing back to the point where my counselor met with my parents, after that I started looking at any clubs that interest me that will also be helpful. I now will be on the diversity club for our school during my senior year and I also have only a couple of hours left until I apply for NHS. Hopefully this will help me out! :)
Although my high schedule was screwed up at first I was still able to maintain a 4.0 gpa and a weighted gpa of 4.4286. I am also ranked in the top 10% if not 5% of my class. I will hopefully increase my ACT score but up to now it is 28. I have also volunteered in my uncle's clinic (he is in internal medicine) for about a year now only on the weekends though. I have also achieved a science department award from the school district along with a Principal's Honor Roll every single semester in high school. I have also taken the AP Bio test but I have not received my scores yet.
Can anyone please help me out with any suggestions? Is what I am doing right or wrong? Am I looking above my capabilities if I apply to this school? Do you have any recommendations on how to help me extracurricular reputation? Should I keep my goal set to this school? I also want to have an idea of how hard the work is in the school? I know that it is accelerated. Will it be better for me to go into pre-med then med? HELP HELP HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks</p>
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