i joined the club: BS/MD Programs

Pre-Med & Medical School Multiple Degree Programs
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<p>chance me please?</p>

<p>ACT: 31 def will improve to 33/34
sat: didnt take, dont plan on it</p>

<p>gpa: 4.58 w, our school doesnt do uw
rank: 2 0f 338</p>

<p>transcript:
freshman: all honors classes (basics)
sophomore: all honors classes (basics) and ap euro (5)
junior: span 4 hons, anatomy hon, APUSH (4), bio ap (5), precal hon, eng ap (5)
senior: ap psychology, ap span lang, ap span lit, ap gov, ap econ, ap eng 4, calc hons</p>

<p>*started my own 501 c 3 nonprofit organization-raised over $40,000 </p>

<p>extracurriculars:
GOVERNMENT: senior class prez, junior class vp, sophomore/freshman class representative
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-prez senior/junior yr, rep sophomore/freshamn yr
president/ founder of natl science honor society and natl eng hon society
mu alpha theta-secretary, member for 3 yrs</p>

<p>volunteering
hospitals, mental health centers, hospice, etc--300 hrs +
toutoring</p>

<p>shadowed head of ER all summer</p>

<p>research: pharmacology and psychiatry this summer
(acknowledged in publications)</p>

<p>internship: treatment center last summer
worked in lab during summer</p>

<p>top 5% natl span exam</p>

<p>i'm looking at bs/md programs (rice/baylor, brown, umkc, gwu, umiami, ucla...)
and gerogetown, johns hopkins, duke, cornell....
maybe princeton/yale!?! lol i know they are kinda beyond even reach schools</p>

<p>thanks for the input! what can i do to improve my chances at these schools??
-rising senior!</p>

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<p>great shot at all those schools
emphasize your medically related ecs and you should be fine</p>

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<p>Ok, so think you have a great chance at all these programs. You have EC's, and your Stats are good. Getting the ACT up to the 34-36 range will help a lot, so yeah. I actually had a question to ask you though. When you say your GPA is 4.58w, are A's in honors classes counting as 5 and A's in AP classes counting as 6? I'm only asking this cuz the grading scales are different at every school. Like at our school, honors classes don't give any extra points in the weighted GPA, but am A in an AP class gives 5 points.</p>

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<p>its probably just 5 pts for honors/ap/ib courses</p>

<p>thats how it was at my school.</p>

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<p>Oh ok, sounds good. Damn, if only my school actually weighted honors courses...then i would have like a 4.8 weighted :(</p>

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<p>ACT must be brought up. My D. had ACT=33 (took once), graduated at the top, tons of ECs, both medical and otherwise, varsity coaches expressed interest. She did not get into some programs last year, including some at state schools. She did not even applied to the ones on your list, they are way too competitive. She got accepted into 3 programs at state schools and in one of them now. Very happy with her choice. My advice is to include wider range of schools.<br>
Weighted GPA will be recalculated by college, so that is good to be #2. By the way, Ds school did not weight honors courses either, but she was #1, so it did not matter.</p>

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<p>yea difficulty of courses and grades are the only thing that matter. schools have many systems of grading, so the only way to really know is to look at courses/grades themselves.</p>