<p>I'm currently a sophomore, and I plan to get into a BS/MD program. I go to a very small school (only about 8 high school students are physically at the location of the high school. My school also offers online courses so I don't know how many high school students are taking their coursework online.) My school offers NO AP classes and only two honors classes which are English and Biology, and I'm taking both honors. HOWEVER, I am going to dual-enroll next year to my local community college. I do not know if my school ranks, but if they do will bs md programs take me seriously with only about 8 students, or will they look at my community college ranking (if they rank)? I currently have all A's and I am volunteering at a hospital, and I will have 100 volunteer hours by the end of June or July. My school does not have any clubs, sports programs or anything of that sort, so I have to find opportunities outside of school. Does anyone know of any great services that a high school student can do that will help me in my EC's. My hospital volunteering is the only thing I'm doing right now, EC wise.</p>
<p>P.S. I wasn't sure where to post this, so I'm going to post it in the multiple degrees forum also.</p>
<p>I have posted this in 2 other forum topics, but I need more feedback! Please Help!</p>
<p>Why do you want to do a BS/MD program?? That is the first question. Thankfully there are only a few of them. Most of their grads do academic medicine. Your chances are poor without AP and honors.</p>
<p>Better for you. Go to a good university and enjoy college and get an education and then go to medical school</p>
<p>"…Thankfully there are only a few of them. Most of their grads do academic medicine. Your chances are poor without AP and honors.
Better for you. Go to a good university and enjoy college and get an education and then go to medical school"
-I do not see a single correct statement here. I ama parent of D. who was accepted at several bs/md’s. She graduted from very small HS with limited numer of AP’s. She choose the bs/md at UG that matched her personality and wide range of interests perfectly, had incredible 4 years, applied out and currently at one of the top 20 Med. schools of her choice. I would like to know what facts led to this incorrect opinion of bs/md. My facts are supporting completely opposite opinion.</p>
<p>@MiamiDAP, could yo please tell me what extra curricular activities your daughter participated in? I t would really really help me!</p>
<p>She had paid posiotion at Med. Research lab (non-cleanning, taking care of animals pre and post-op) for 2 summers.
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Started the official sport team, was one person team freshman year, join by 3 others later. Allowed her HS to be represented in her sport - her essay was based on this experience. That is where small school provided benefit. Somebody else tried the same at large public school with no success.
Club sport - 3 hours practice every day (including transportation), many meets, during week and on the weekends
Private piano, ended up with Music minor at college and currently participates in Opera production at Med. School - major fundraisers for Free Clinique
Private art lessons
Shadowing MD’s
Volunteering at the Hospitals
She did not mentioned other stuff like Model UN and 3 Foreign languages (not really an EC, just skills)
The EC’s were not the major reason for acceptance. She had stats and she applied widely and she did not apply to most selective bs/md, except fot one. She was rejected pre-interview from the most selective on her list. Ironically that is where she ended up going for Med. School anyway after she applied out of her bs/md.</p>
<p>did she do a research paper? A lot of peple on CC are telling me that I should do a research paper. </p>
<p>Also, how old/ or what grade was she in, when she had the paid position at the Med. Research lab? I’m currently a sophomore, so I’m just wondering. </p>
<p>Also, do private lessons in a art or sport count as an EC?</p>
<p>Also, just curious, what was the selective med. school she got into? :)</p>
<p>She did not publish paper, not in HS, not in UG, did not prevent her from being accepted “regular route” to couple top 20 Med. Schools.
I believe she was in Med. Research after sophome and junior years,
Of course, music, art, sport are EC’s. Especially having that many hours/week in sport - over 20 hrs, including all summers, year around sport.
Northwestern (Feinberg) and Case Western. She applied only to 8 schools, could afford that few beccause of her spot in bs/md, one of many advantages.</p>
<p>But, I thought that you had to do sports and stuff like that within a organization or a legit sports team. Is that true? For example, if I want to play basketball, but because my high school does not have a team, what could I do so that colleges count that as an EC?</p>
<p>Also, I didn’t understand what you said about the med. research. Did she do it her senior year, or in the summer of junior and senior year?</p>
<p>If you do stuff only for applicagtion, it is a mesearble way. Yes, D’s athletic director register a team with our state, you cannot represent your school, if team is not registered with state. In terms of practices, in D’s sport clubs are of higher quality than school teams, clubs are feeding the best athletes to HS teams and all thru Olympic teams. D. did not care what she can mention in her application and what not, she put stuff that was important for her. He sport was her biggest time commitment with great results.
I am not sure what you do not understand, but I will reapeat about Med Research. She ahd a job at Med. Research a summer after 2nd year and a summer after 3rd year in High School. Is it more clear? It really does not matter. She could have it for one month, her acceptances would be the same, guarantee. You need stats to get in, the rest is just to show your interest, how many hours is almost irrelevent, unless it is so little that you cannot even mention. They ask how many hour / week for each activity.</p>
<p>Okay, than you I really appreciate your your help MiamiDAP, but I just have a couple more questions. What was your daughter’s SAT score, and her GPA in high school? If you don’t want to answer these questions, it’s no problem, but I’m just curious to know what she got. Again, thank you, I really appreciate it.</p>
<p>She used ACT, it was 33. She graduated #1 in her HS class (33 kids total, not as small as yours, but still very small) with GPA=4.0uw and few AP’s. they could have AP’s only starting with juniour year and only 3/year and in addition, some teachers refuse to call classes AP, although they were teaching at higher level than other’s AP’s (as D. hasdiscovered later in college). While in HS, they were not allowed taking classes outside of HS (in colleges) either. Small school has more advantages than disadvantages IMO. Attention to each student makes it so much better.</p>