Ideas for colleges with good medical programs? My updated stats

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<p>I was wondering about what good colleges with strong medical and premed programs you guys thought I should go for so far.</p>

<p>GPA: Freshman 3.5 unweighted school doesn't weight, Sophomore 3.85 unweighted 4.4 weighted.</p>

<p>Freshman school did not rank. Sophomore year I'm expecting top ten percent. Possibly going back to old school later.</p>

<p>Advanced courses:</p>

<p>Freshman year: Honors Geometry (B), school didn't offer freshman advanced courses.</p>

<p>Sophomore year: PreAP World Geography(A), PreAP Chemistry(A+), Pre AP English 2, Computer Programming (A-), Spanish 2 (A), AP Psychology.</p>

<p>Junior Year Courses registered for: Physics PAP, Precalculus PAP, Spanish 3 PAP, Teen Leadership, AP Chemistry, AP US History, AP English 4.</p>

<p>Senior Year anticipated courses: AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Spanish 4, AP Spanish 5 (school operates by semester), AP Biology, AP Physics, AP Economics, AP English 4.</p>

<p>Community Service: 40 hours, beach cleanups with Surf Club, Christian Community Action Food Pantry. I plan to volunteer at the hospital soon.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: Habitat For Humanity, Piano/Guitar, invited to Brown University precollege medical program, I plan to go. Going to UT Southwestern Premedical program next two years of high school, it's in January.</p>

<p>Reccomendations: I anticipate they will be excellent, my teachers like me. I also have notable educated people that know me very well that could provide recs if necessary: John Hopkins PhD, Harvard Professor grandfather, MIT Magna Cum Laude.</p>

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<p>Texasmathwhiz, Good medical schools accept gradutes from colleges allover the allover the map, both geographically and figuratively. There are zillions of choices for strong pre-med or science related undergraduate programs (although a degree in humanities would do just as well.) As long as you keep your grades up (and have reasonably good scores) you'll have a shot at most colleges in the US. </p>

<p>Rather than looking for random suggestions, you should be doing some homework in order to find out what you want in an undergraduate school. Big/small, urban/rural, liberal/conservative, east/west/north/south. As I'm sure you've heard many times, concentrate on the middle range and include a few safeties in your research. Once you've identified what you're interested in you will get more meaningful recommendations.</p>

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<p>I'm interested in a small to medium school, don't really care where it is because maybe that place is cooler where I live. Probably urban, suburban, rural might be okay.</p>

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<p>I think I already recommended Knox College in Illinois to you. They have a special program with Rush Medical School whereby you can get accepted to Rush at the end of your sophomore year at Knox (you then finish up your BS at Knox). Two other schools that do an exceptional job of preparing students for medical school are Washington & Jefferson College and Juniata College, both in Pennsylvania.</p>

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<p>I thought you started a thread on exactly this same topic a few days ago, under 'Here's my stats parents, where should I go '. As I recall, you got pretty offensive in it, basically telling parents that you didn't <em>need</em> our advice. </p>

<p>Why are you back here?</p>

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<p>I'm in agreement with optimizerdad. This student has been basically posting the same threads all over CC. Based on the fact that the student apparently continues to think that college will accept a recommendation from his granddad, I don't see any evidence that the student has taken any of the good advice he has been given.</p>

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<p>Hear, hear to Northstarmom.</p>

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<p>Alright. Immature adults are in, I'm out.</p>

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<p>lol, I think texasmathwhiz just proved optimizerdad's point. ;)</p>

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<p>No last time I continued to argue. This time I'm leaving.</p>

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<p>Goodbye and Good Riddance :rolleyes:</p>