<p>In another post you mentioned your stats as a 23 on your ACT and a 3.0 unweighted average. You also mentioned that you took the hardest classes in your school yet you didn’t take any of the AP’s offered. Then you mentioned considering turning down a guaranteed acceptance into Ann Arbor. The people taking out the time to help you should realize the discrepancies in the info you provide.</p>
<p>I think if they were still looking for more applicants in Mid March their number of applicants was below their target. Cornell College’s average stats are 3.54 GPA and ACT middle 50% range is 23-28…So do your best to get your GPA and ACT’s up a little in the Fall and you should be good.</p>
<p>nysmile if you took the time to read i also mentioned my stats went up and i dont want to go to ann arbor (dont care any believes me or not). stop with this crusade to make me look bad, seriously its just a forum. If you are gonna be like this stop posting on my threads.</p>
<p>First, not many schools actually have a “pre-med” major. Presumalbe the OP will be a bio major. Secondly, I don’t really care what classes my Dr. took in HS when he was 16 or 17. Are we talking about Doogie Houser here? As another poster stated, he’s got plenty of time to challenge himself and could turn out to be a fine Dr. The question was for schools, specifically LACs, not career advice (read nysmile) There are plenty of schools that the OP can get into that have excellent placement at med and other grad schools. I usually lurk here and post infrequently, but this board has become so negative I’m about to abandon it altogether. I can take the elitism, but the negativity towards everyone is just over the top lately.</p>
<p>I again suggest Washington and Jefferson. Coe is definitely doable too. John, do you want to wrestle in college as well?</p>
<p>cant i would like to a lot but im having an operation the summer before i go to college it will prevent me from wrestling for two and a half years</p>
<p>also by going premed i meant to declare my interest in med school i am going to major in bio. Thanks father05.</p>
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<p>Post #35 mentions the book by the same title. Both the book and website feature about 40 LAC of note throughtout the country.</p>
<p>i appreciate all the colleges that change lives. I bought the book, so can the posts plz stop being about it.</p>
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<p>In-state is your best bet to lower tuition. Div. I sports take tons of time, think twice about doing it. If you are planning to go pre-med and maybe get some academic scholarhips for returning students in a future, you will need to keep your GPA in college as close as possible to perfect. In addition, you will need to spend some time volunteering/researching in connection to med. field if you are planning to apply to med. school eventually. As far as Academic Scholarships for incoming freshmen, you probably need to get your stats a bit higher. Competitiion is getting tougher from year to year. The best of luck!</p>
<p>To CC, this kid isn’t for real so don’t waste your time helping him. Check out his posts. He even tries to give advice to another kid on CC with much higher stats (ACT 36, higherGPA) and tells him that his stats aren’t high enough for pre-med/med. He tells the kid that an unweighted GPA under 3.5 isn’t good enough. Let’s see, john has an unweighted of 3.0 on one of his posts and unweighted 3.25 on another post a couple of days later. He has an ACT of 23, and then a couple of days later it miraculously turns into a 24 (without retaking it-says he’ll retake in Sept.). The guy that he’s giving advice to got well over a 30 on his ACT yet john says it’s not good enough. Very strange. Then he says that he’s on the “guys gone wild” video and it got him into UCLA. I’m serious–don’t waste your time.</p>
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<p>Wow, great sleuthing work. Maybe I am gullible, but I will like to give the kid the benefit of the doubt. Getting into UCLA, though a great U, is not LAC. Maybe he is not totally accurate but someone else with a similar situation to his may benefit from the great advice/knowledge people are sharing with him. Look at it this way, we are creating a knowledge base for the future readers.</p>
<p>Look at it this way, we are creating an knowledge base for the future readers.</p>
<p>Good way to think about it.</p>
<p>Nysmile I got my report card in the mail and my GPA went up so be quite, sit down, and SHUT UP.</p>
<p>Be quite what?</p>
<p>typo, i meant be quiet</p>
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<p>If you are looking for a low cost liberal arts college in the Northeast or Midwest, seriously consider the University of Minnesota, Morris. I think the other liberal arts colleges that have been recommended by posters here all have annual tuition rates at least twice as high. (Most people who are looking for low tuition look to their in-state public schools.) I have only known one person who went to UMM; she loved it.</p>
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<p>How important of a consideration is annual tuition?</p>
<p>everyone plz disregard what nysmile says. if you want more information PM me. Are there any other LACs you would recommend. Also all the stats are 100% true.</p>
<p>nysmile is right. Here are all john6391’s posts he’s started:</p>
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<p>I don’t know if this experience was unique. I was talking to a friend yesterday and she mentioned her niece graduated from Wellesley (LAC) with a major in neuroscience and biology. The degree she received was a Bachelor of Arts. Wellesley is very tough on grades and niece had a 3.6X GPA. She didn’t get into any med school in US and my friend said she encountered difficulties all over the world because of the degree designation, esp. in Australia and England. She was only wait listed at UBC in Canada but did get in. Admissions offices question the Bachelor of Art designation. Right now her niece is doing a Masters at Columbia in a related field and hope to apply to med school again after graduation. </p>
<p>My friend said in retrospect, her niece would have been better off going to a regular university in terms of applying to med school.</p>
<p>i always thought you could get a bachelor of science as well as a bachelor of arts at LACs</p>