I’m currently a Jr in high school, last year I had a 3.0 unweighted GPA (i took two honors classes) and this year I’m taking 4 AP classes and 1 honors class and I have 2 Cs 2 Bs and 2 As. I want to go into the medical field so I chose to take a lot of AP classes to raise my chances of getting into a good pre-med program but its backfiring. But my AP Biology grade is a 95. I was looking into Fordham university their acceptance rate says somewhere around 47% but the average GPA is a 3.65 unweighted, but they do have a relatively small amount of people who attend/ apply with pre-med intentions, their acceptance rate to medical is extremely high with 90% acceptance rate which is why I love the school so much, and it’s in NYC, I would stay at Lincon Center and commute daily to classes in the Bronx.
My SAT score is pretty high being 1400. I am also highly considering taking the exit exam and going to community college instead of doing another year in HS (it’s less embarrassing to go to a community college because I’m graduating early and not because I couldn’t get in anywhere). I’m not sure what colleges accept a B/C student with high SAT and a lot of extracurricular.
Not to mention that my parents were not born in the US, although they did both receive masters degrees from high ranking schools, they were both born in Iran and my dad went to USC for a masters in engineering not sure where my mom went but has a masters in chemistry, we are a relatively high-income family. I volunteer at a high ranking hospital, involved in student gov, help runs a club that raises money for newly immigrated families, and also am in the newspaper. I am also a swimmer, Frosh soph/ Jv freshman year, JV Jr year (I should have been on varsity but tore my ACL) and Jr year hope to make varsity. Don’t know if this counts for anything but I attended The National Forum of Medicine at UCLA and also have attended a leadership camp for Iranian American High schoolers.
I would like to go to the east coast and tuition is not a problem for me. Are there any schools that are good but will accept me?