Please Help!!!!

Pre-Med & Medical School Multiple Degree Programs
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<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>I'm currently a senior, and I'm completely done with all my college apps. But now I'm worried. I'm a little anxious so I just wanted to know what my chances would be for the colleges that I applied to. So here are my stats:</p>

<p>GPA(the killer): 3.56 (UW) (Screwed up bad in freshman and sophomore year but 4.0 in junior and currently 4.0 too ) 4.0(W)
SAT: 2370 (M: 800 CR: 800 W: 770) Super Score: 2390 (took it twice)
ACT: 35 (M: 36 S: 35 R: 35 W:35)
SAT II: Math II (800) Chem (800) Bio (800) Physics (720) Lit (770)
AP: Bio (5) Chem (5) Stats (5) Lit (5)-(huge surprise) US (3)
Classes this year- AP Lit; AP Physics; AP Environmental; AP Psych; AP Econ; AP Calc BC (yea you may think I'm trolling but this is like the typical schedule for everyone I know)</p>

<p>Well those are my grades and tests and now to the ECs:</p>

<p>USABO Semi Finalist</p>

<p>Summer Medical Research at UCSF (published and letter of rec from professor)</p>

<p>Water Project in India (With a help of a water purification company, I went to some villages where my parents grew up and established a water purification system. I had I job of building 5 water purification tanks, convincing the politicians there to pay for the project, and educating the people living there why it was necessary to have clean water)</p>

<p>Those are my top ECs and here are my rest:</p>

<p>Around 50 hours of aiding autistic kids at my Mom's school (letter of rec from teacher)</p>

<p>Around 240 hours of hospital volunteer</p>

<p>I shadowed a interventional cardiologist for around 40 hours</p>

<p>I played B-ball for like 2 years and Track for 2 years</p>

<p>I went to Jamaica over Winter Break this year to do a internship there. (Amazing experience highly recommend this for anyone who wants to go into the med field)</p>

<p>Letters of Rec:</p>

<p>AP Bio Teacher, English Teacher, AP Physics Teacher, US History teacher (I think this was crap), AP Chem Teacher</p>

<p>Water Purification Director, UCSF professor, Cardiologist, Doctor in Jamaica, Autistic Volunteer Class Teacher.</p>

<p>I think my essays were pretty good. My AP Lit teacher helped me out cause we're hecka chill and I got help from this Ivy Max Program for college apps (I know you guys prob think I'm nooob right, but it was actually really helpful)</p>

<p>Well that's pretty much it
And here are the schools I applied to:</p>

<p>UChicago
Stanford
Cal Tech
Johns Hopkins
WUSTL
Boston 7 year med (BS/MD)
UMKC BS/MD
Northwestern (BS/MD) (but I wouldn't mind going even if I didn't get BS/MD)
UCLA
UC Berkley
Brown (BS/MD)
UCSD (BS/MD)
Harvard (I know I got no chance, but my mom told me to)</p>

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<p>A lot of schools don’t look at Freshman year, so that will work in your favor. An upward trend also helps. You have a very high-level list, but I think you have a good chance at any of them based stats and ECs. You have to make sure your letters are really good. You don’t need to have ten letters though… that is WAY too many and may actually hurt you.
BS/MD programs are very competitive to get in to, but as far as stats go, I think you have what it takes. The interview plays a huge part in BS/MD admissions, so hopefully you get there!
Good luck</p>

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<p>Wow!!! Thank you very much moonman676!! Sorry but just one quick question. Did you mean colleges don’t look at freshman year grades or BS/MD programs don’t look at freshman grades; and do you by chance know the ones which don’t look at the freshman year grades. And also don’t you think my GPA will lower my chances. Whoops sorry about asking so many questions!!</p>

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<p>You are a strong applicant, except for you GPA. You will have to wait and see if the admissions coms will cut you some slack. Here are my guesses:</p>

<p>You are not likely to get into: </p>

<p>Stanford
Cal Tech
Northwestern (BS/MD)
Brown (BS/MD)
UCSD (BS/MD)
Harvard </p>

<p>You may have a chance at the other places, but I hope that you have some safety schools.</p>

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<p>I think your likely bets are the top UC’s, WashUStLouis, JHU, maybe advancing to interview rounds at BU & UCSD. Honestly, being a privileged Indian male is not gonna help with the super-selective schools & programs.</p>