Thanks, you’re right. I should sleep more. I have been thinking about your advice and decided to reach out to family friend. She works as a pediatrician in a high need area. She might be okay with me shadowing or helping out. Don’t know if it will help my application, but it should be interesting.
I have a potential list of schools including targets and safeties. Some of my safety schools are honors colleges that are less holistic and more grades and scores driven. Looking at their charts, I would earn substantial scholarships.
I would rather be at the more selective schools like Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt etc. but if it doesn’t work out I’ll be okay. I will succeed anywhere because of my desire to learn not a fancy campus. Thanks for all the advice.