I wanted to run the hospital and also volunteer as a doctor in the hospital. There are very few internationally recognized as qualified specialist surgeons in my country. There would be a greater demand for someone that took that path which might increase the probability of national recognition and federal grants. I might not be a neurosurgeon, but I intend on becoming a physician.
The clinic isn’t only related to cancer but we are heavily involved in it’s detection and treatment.
Do any schools care that I went on TV to advertise for the event or that I coordinated a health fair during Hurricane Harvey and took a picture with the mayor?
@mommyrocks is right, you need to shift from leadership/service to more hard core math and science for pre-med. You’re academics are competitive but would be below a lot of pre-med applicants who would be 1550/3.9 uw, 800 on math 2 and either chem or bio subject tests. What’s your rigor like wrt honors and APs?
@badguys-- an observation: it is both immature and disingenuous of you to ask people to chance you yet ignore that you are black/african. There are 1000s of applicants with your stats. Most will get rejected based on simple statistics. You know quite well that the color of your skin is a huge factor. Is that fair? It is what it is. If you dont want it to be a factor then dont check the box on the application. The committee will still see the spelling of your name, your nationality and your transcripts so its a moot point but for every person that doesnt want affirmative action preference policy to somehow denigrate what they have accomplished then reject using them to the extent possible.
Sorry I was at MIT for the WISE program, my gpa UNWEIGHTED is a 3.8 and i definately plan on retaking the SAT and ACT. I always take the hardest classes that my school has all IB and AP courses. With my extremely African name, they’ll be able to tell even the state in my country that I come from. I just wanted to know if that info aside, if I’m a reasonable applicant.
The school is more easy here than another countries, for example here you normally have 6 different courses per year, in my country we have between 11 to 14 courses per year in middle and High School. College Courses in USA as physics, chemistry, etc, are mandatory in 10 grade and up.
In University here as freshman normally you have 3 or 4 hours of classes per day in another countries you start class at 7:00 am and have 6 to 8 hours of classes per day.
Is very funny as some universities in another countries don’t have high scores in rankigs, but it’s because don’t have dorms or because don’t are strong in research.
But Academically are excellent.
Excuse me?!?! That certainly assumes facts not in evidence. In this case, possibly correct, but still. Many African-Americans have a name that’s as WASPy as mine (and for the record, my name does nothing to reveal my ethnicity or country of origin).
Which would be American (or possibly dual national) as indicacted in the original post. If s/he were not a US citizen/Permanent Resident, then ethnicity would be a moot point for the targeted colleges since they limit intl students as a percentage of total enrollees.
Again, assumes facts not in evidence. The final transcript is from a US HS. For all we know, the parent is affiliated with Médecins Sans Frontières.
2 ways of basically saying the same thing, although the latter is phrased it much much better, IMO.