<p>I am a junior (half-way through the year-school goes year round) looking to go into pre-med and eventually med school. I was wondering if you all could give my some good school suggestions. Location, sports, and cost aren't important to me.</p>
<p>UWGPA: 3.64
WGPA: 3.80
SAT: 2020 (CR: 640 W: 640 M: 740)
ECs:
Rotary Club: 3 years (secretary senior year)
Roller Hockey: 15 years (team ranked top 50 in state)
Ice Hockey: 6 years
Hockey Referee: 3 years
Checkers Team: 3 years (Vice Pres)
Church Group: (2 years)
CPR Certified
Research Club: (4 years)
Librarian: 3 years (summer job-225 hours total)
Animal Shelter Volunteer (300 hours)
120 volunteer hours teaching handicap kids (ran several sessions)
Model UN: (2 years)
25 hour of volunteer with Rotary</p>
<p>The reason me GPA is so low is because throughout my freshman and first half of sophomore year I was pretty depressed. I was even put on suicide watch for a month. However, I am better now!</p>
<p>You’ve got the stats to get into dozens of very good schools which will have all the premed courses you’ll require. Start looking at your state university, decide what you like/dislike about it, and then begin refining your search. Otherwise it’s hard to advise since you gave us no parameters to work with.</p>
<p>As katliamom says, we need some selection criteria from you:</p>
<p>1) size (large public university? small liberal arts college? mid-sized private?)
2) location: urban/rural/suburban, what part of the country, weather, driving distrance from x?
3) what can you afford
4) characteristics: frats/sororities? rah-rah, intellectual, quirky, artsy, granola, preppy, hipster, etc…give us some adjectives to describe your best fit</p>
<p>There are dozens, if not hundreds, of schools which will prepare you well for med school.</p>
<p>There are plenty of schools that are good for pre-med, namely the most prestigious ones (Ivies, Stanford, etc.). Since you can’t actually major in “pre-med” though, you can refine your search by deciding what you want to study (bio, chem, anthropology, etc.) and find a college with a strong department for that major. Other important things to find out from school officials or current students are the medical school acceptance rates and the amount of research opportunities.</p>
<p>Then, there are some colleges that have unique incentives for pre-meds. I think Georgetown offers the chance in the sophomore or junior year of undergrad to apply for guaranteed acceptance to their med school.</p>
<p>I am a pretty social kid, but totally against drugs and alcohol. So, I really don’t want a lot of frat/sororities (it’s okay it there are a few). My family doesn’t need any FA. I was more curious to know what caliber schools I could get into. Chemistry is my planned major.</p>