My end plan is med school - what should I do?

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.

I also applied to the PPSP at CWRU which comes out next month, as well as Johns Hopkins and Georgia Tech.

You should wait until you have all offers on the table.

Definitely. I don’t want to jump to committing till like late April or May 1st.
But it’s kind of hard to look at what I got accepted to already and rule out stuff/rank choices out of them.

Congratulations on your acceptances.

I would wait until all acceptances and financial aid offers are in, then you can weigh the pros and cons of each school you are accepted to.

When looking at costs, you have to calculate net cost so that you can accurately compare total COA by school. So take the total COA for each school and subtract any merit. You can do that now for the first 5 schools on your list…how do they stack up?

What is your annual budget?

UCLA/UCB do not consider legacy in their admissions decisions. If you are an in-state CA resident, then UCLA/UCB make sense financially. If OOS, $65K/year to attend with Medical school as your objective, makes poor financial sense. Each school has their own weighting system and the UC’s are very transparent about their GPA calculation so nothing “weird” on how they weight your HS classes.