OK... I'm so confused!!!

Pre-Med & Medical School Multiple Degree Programs
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<p>I’m planning to apply to BS/DO and BS/MD programs, but I have no idea which ones are the least selective (I’m not looking for one EASY to get in: they don’t exist). My stats are far from superior on CC standards, but hey, it’s ok to have dreams:</p>

<p>Competition & Awards</p>

<p>• National Piano Competition ‘Claude Kahn :’ 2nd place
• Regional Finalist for Lewis Caroll Mathematic Competition
• Valedictorian of Music School of Cagnes-Sur-Mer, graduated from the music theory class </p>

<ul>
<li>1st place District UIL physics and Biology, 2nd place chemistry (1st place science team)</li>
<li>4th place UIL science regionals</li>
<li>2nd place District UIL math, 1st place team</li>
<li>American Chemical Society scholarship examination 1st place </li>
<li>AIME qualifier (score of 5 on AIME)</li>
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<p>Academic Information</p>

<p>• SAT score 2260 (780 math, 740 critical reading, 740 writing), 800 SAT II Bio

  • UW GPA around 4.0, but class rank around top 20% (sucks, i know)
  • AP scores (all 5’s): Bio, APUSH, English language, Stats, French literature, french language (I’m french, haha :)=>thus AP scholar award!!
  • Non-native english speaker, recent immigrant.
  • My foreign transcript got messed up which explains my class rank. I’m taking the hardest schedule I am ALLOWED to take…</p>

<p>Extracurriculars</p>

<p>• Model United Nations (9th grade)
• School Choir piano player (9th grade)
• Piano, guitar
• Handball Team (9th grade)
• Swimming club (9th grade)</p>

<p>Track team hopefully (12)
Student council (11, 12)
Mu Alpha Theta (11, 12)
Mentoring program at school (12) =>leadership team
Captain science team (12)</p>

<p>May start some tutoring at school…
Starting to volunteer at hospital (hopefully reach 60 hrs by application time)</p>

<p>Work Experience</p>

<p>• Pharmacy internship (2005, total 49 hours)
• Shadowed in the doctor office (2007, total 48 hours)

  • Summer internship through Welch Summer Program (worked on biochemistry). 5 weeks. Planning to submit research to Siemens and Intel this fall.</p>

<p>Question 1: what BA/MD am I most eligible to go (which ones are reasonable dreams)? </p>

<p>Question 2: I’ve done my own search, and I wondered how likely I am to get in the following (BS/DO) programs:</p>

<li><p>Gannon University in Erie, PA agreement with PCOM</p></li>
<li><p>Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL agreement with NSU-COM </p></li>
<li><p>Utica College in New York with agreement with LECOM</p></li>
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<p>Thanks so much for reading!! I’m eagerly awaiting your advice/assessment!! :)</p>

<ul>
<li>Watson&Crick</li>
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<p>You have good chance at lot of places.hpme,uic(if instate)psu—</p>

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<p>I’m going to sound like a wet blanket, but based on the schools you’re looking at why not just go to college and apply to medical school separately. As a person applying to medical school after college I can’t possibly understand why you would think that it would be a good idea to want to do those particular programs. It looks like all of those programs are bottom 20% of medical schools. Given that, even if you got in and went to one of them, you would have an exceedingly difficult time getting a good residency from such a low ranked school. Also it’s been found that many students in guaranteed med programs struggle their first few years in medical school because they didn’t have to work as hard in college and weren’t used to the workload.</p>

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<p>I don’t know where I want to go to residency, so I’ll be concerned only once I get into (and only in that case) a med school.</p>

<p>I know those programs aren’t prestigious, but most premeds who are fortunate enough to go med school don’t end up in top tier med schools anyway. </p>

<p>But thanks for your suggestion. I’ll definitely look up some more “prestigious” programs. And I’m a natural hard-working asian, lol. It’s not like I’ll lose my nerdiness or work ethic :slight_smile: I usually study for the pleasure of studying (I know, it’s rare but notice my username)</p>

<p>Does anyone has more suggestions on less competitive BA/MD’s I have a decent shot at?</p>

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<p>apply everywhere you’d want to go!
you have good stats and whatever weaknesses you have should not be too big of a deal, I’d say you have a chance at any program you choose</p>

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<p>Really?? with top 15-20% class rank… I wish you are correct. But I’m still kinda skeptical.</p>

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<p>Who cares if it’s a longshot if you get in? ALL of these programs are longshots because they’re so small and it’s such a huge commitment. You never know until you try, so why not go for it?</p>

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<p>I mean it’s all relative, like saying it’s easier to get into Cornell than Harvard? I’m just trying to find the ‘longshots’ that are actually reasonable. I’m sure there are significant differences in selectivity among different BA/MD’s (maybe 2% acceptance rate versus 15% acceptance rate)</p>

<p>That kind of difference would be very important for a borderline applicant like me. And I’m also open to BS/DO, so that’s why I asked for the less selective programs where I have a reasonable chance. I’m especially clueless because only some top programs like Rice Baylor publish their acceptance rate (lol, it’s like 20/1600 :slight_smile: haha, that doesn’t help me much, cos I have so little chance at those programs already.</p>

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<p>^its more like 14 lol.</p>

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<p>buy this book
[AAMC:</a> Medical School Admission Requirements](<a href=“http://www.aamc.org/students/applying/msar.htm]AAMC:”>Medical School Admission Requirements™ (MSAR®) for Applicants | Students & Residents)
and grow some balls and apply</p>

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<p>You’re a very promising candidate for admission, actually.</p>

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<p>Check out PennState-Jefferson. If you go there, you get to see JoePa!!!</p>