<p>Hey guys..
I've been reading through all the different threads..
I'm gonna be a senior next year and I want to major in IR....
But my goal is med school.. so I need a school that's flexible enough to allow me to do my prerequisites for med school too...</p>
<p>Here's my list..</p>
<p>American
Boston University
Tufts
Johns Hopkins
Northeastern
George Washington
UC San Diego
Georgetown
Brown...</p>
<p>My GPA unweighted is 3.65 and weigted is 4.1
I'm gonna retake all my tests but...</p>
<p>SAT I: 2000
SAT II US History: 700
SAT II Biology: 670
ACT: 30</p>
<p>Any schools I can add (or even take out) from my list? Please reply ASAP!</p>
<p>Don’t take off the schools you listed off your list. Apply to each of the schools you mentioned. What I will say is that Georgetown, Tufts, Brown, and John Hopkins are really competitive schools. Acceptance Rates: G’Town: 18% Brown: 14%, JH: 25%, Tufts: 26%. American, Tufts and Brown have excellent international relations programs. JH is great for pre-medicine. International relations is a unique major to go alongside with your pre-med courses because it isn’t too demanding as say… Majoring in Biology, but it provides a good balance of difficult Pre-Med requisites and Regular college classes. I’m not too familiar with JH International relations programs. Georgetowns school of foriegn service is a great school. It really comes down to what you really want to do other than Pre-Med requisites. In Medical school admissions, GPA and MCAT are the most important factors in determining medical school admission. Where you went as an undergrad however only plays a role when a medical school is deciding between two similar applicants with similar stats and recommendations and so forth. So deciding on what major you want to pursue is key to deciding what college you want to go to. I’m not familiar with the flexibility of each universities program. Call them up and find out… GOod Luck!</p>
<p>you might want to raise your test scores for those reaches.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t recommend Georgetown SFS for you. They are quite stringent in terms of their students taking classes outside their department and will not let people double major in something at SFS and something else at Georgetown College. I think it’ll be much harder to do pre-med requirements at Georgetown.
Same goes for Northeastern. Half of your years will be spent doing work experience (because of their co-op program) so that takes out a chunk of time where you could be doing your pre-med requirements. </p>
<p>How are your extracurriculars? </p>
<p>In your case, Tufts, JHU, Brown, and Georgetown will be reaches. Try to get your GPA above a 3.7, and raise the SAT score above 2100.</p>
<p>Other schools I’d recommend you look at are Syracuse, Seton Hall, and NYU.</p>