So, I’m a senior graduating this year.
I got accepted to:
- Loyola University, Chicago: 22K a yr scholarship, biology program
- DePaul University, Chicago, 24K a year scholarship, health sciences program. Also in the honors and pathway honors programs.
- University of Toledo, Ohio. 14K a year scholarship. Honors program, Bio sciences, and Bacc2MD program. Not a guaranteed med school chair, but guaranteed interview if specific criteria met by my third year.
- UIC - Honors program. I applied to GPPA and am waiting for response.
- Hofstra, New York. 30K a year scholarship. Honors college and biology program. Waiting for BS/MD response, which comes out later.
- Deferred from Ann Arbor
- Applied to ACPHS, waiting for response.
- Applied to UIUC, waiting for response. Probably not gonna go though, since research is not really guaranteed and is super competitive.
- Berkeley and UCLA I applied to since I’m legacy, but their GPA is weighed weird (my sister goes there) and you need a good GPA for med school, so I’m not gonna risk it.
- Applied to NYU, waiting for response.
- Applied to Rice, Brown, and UMKC for BS/MD program. Waiting for response
- Applied to good number of Ivies - Princeton, Harvard, Brown, Penn
Rejected from RPI, Siena, Caldwell, Union, Penn State, Drexel, Pittsburgh, and CS Mines for BS/MD. Some gave me different offers, but apart from the program, the colleges aren’t special enough for me to want to attend.
I applied to others too but I’m waiting for responses still.
I’m unsure of which is the best option for my end game at this point. I’m thinking DePaul because it gives me guaranteed research, but Toledo does have the interview option if I do have the criteria met. However at the same time, DePaul does the same thing for pathway honors if I meet some criteria.