Hello, I’ve been searching around lately for schools that would fit me best, although my test scores are not the highest I am considering looking at Baylor, UNC, and possibly Wash U STL, if any one has any advice as to what I would need on my ACT/SAT and so forth, any opinions on the schools above as well as some suggestions for other schools that might be a good fit. My cumulative GPA is only a 3.3, i have not taken the ACT but will be in Feb.
With a GPA of 3.3, UNC and WashU will not work out for you. Won’t matter what your SAT/ACT is.
What is your current SAT score?
Is that your weighted GPA?
What is your home state?
Do you realize that premeds have to maintain a HIGH GPA?
What is your home state?
how much will your parents pay each year? That will largely determine where you should apply.
Have not taken the SAT should I?
Is that your weighted GPA? Yes this is
Home state: Missouri
I know that you have to be pretty smart to make it in Pre-Med but I think I will be able to to do.
tuition does not matter
Where else do you suggest I look?
also what if i were to pull out a high ACT/SAT test score would that even out my GPA sort of?
Also I am a Junior at Christian Brothers College High School, a college prep school here in Missouri I dont know if this matters at all or not.
A test score will not “even out” your lowish GPA.
Your high school may give a “tip” at some Catholic univs…I doubt it will mean all that much to others.
What is your unweighted gpa?
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know that you have to be pretty smart to make it in Pre-Med but I think I will be able to to do.
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What is your evidence for that?
Is your frosh GPA low, but your soph/jr year GPAs high?
What are your bio and chem grades?
Right now, it appears that you don’t have the foundation to get thru premed with a med-school worthy GPA.
However, there are students (males) who didnt’ do well in HS, but get serious once in college and end up with high GPAs.
However, the last thing you should do is put yourself at a school like WashU where the premeds will all be MUCH stronger than you…and you will get weeded out promptly.
take both the ACT and SAT. but neither will overcome your gpa.
With respect, a 3.3 GPA (even if u/w and even with some improvement) isn’t very realistic for the institutions you’ve cited, remembering that GPA is probably the most important of all admission’s credentials (however, an exception might be if that 3.3 placed you in the top 10 or 15 percent of your prep school class).
Are you applying to Mizzou?
Are you applying to Christian Brothers in Tenn?
Why do you want to become a doctor? do you have a physician parent? is it expected by your parents?
I don’t think you know how hard it is to get a high GPA as a premed. My son came into college with top stats from his Catholic high school. He worked his fanny off at a flagship public to get a 4.0 BCMP GPA and a 3.99 cum GPA in chemical engineering. He’s in med school now. I doubt he’d be there if he had come into college with a 3.3 weighted GPA. The foundation just wouldn’t have been there.
I understand what your saying I’m very new to all this so all your answers and tips are very helpful and i really appreciate them. My freshman year I did very poorly with a 2.7 or something like that I was coming from a public school to a very challenging one of the best private high schools in st.louis, so I knew there would be a little struggle, but then i slowly started to go up. Now junior year i’m doing very well, I am just really wanting to be a pediatrician,I have every since I was little, Just wanting to know what would be my best road to get there like now and so on when I go to college I know there wont be any playing around I need to keep my head down since my parents will be paying for college, I wouldn’t want to wast there hard earned money for nothing
What are your bio and chem grades? What math are you currently taking and what grades are you getting?
Are you a girl?
There are other ways to be a healthcare professional for children other than becoming a pediatrician. You could become a pediatric nurse, a PA or Nurse Practitioner that specializes in pediatrics.
what was your PSAT
That means you want to find a school where you are reasonably confident that you will in the top quarter of the class academically. Look for schools where your current grades put you in the top half of the school’s academic profile and then you can stretch yourself to make it to the top. Why? See AMCAS’s stats for who gets admitted:
https://www.aamc.org/download/321518/data/factstable25-4.pdf
With your current GPA and an MCAT under 30, you’d have a 20% chance of getting into medical school anywhere. (This is just an example - hopefully your grades and test scores will be higher!)
Factor in that you will need letters of recommendation from faculty who know you well enough to say the right things about you plus all the usual volunteering, research, etc…that medical schools expect of applicants these days. Its going to be a touch haul even at school where you are comfortably in the sweet spot.
I suggest that you look at some of the LACs where there is a lot of personal attention paid to students, the competition is less intense and the class sizes are smaller than you will find at the schools you’ve mentioned.
Bio Grade was a B took that last year, Chem grade also a B could have been an A, also did not really try in bio last year as hard as I could have. Currently taking Algebra 2 have a high B as well as previous math courses kept a B as well
I’m a male
A pediatric nurse would be nice
Have not taken had the option to but was sick the day that they tested
Actually, it does. Why are you looking for answers from anonymous posters that don’t know you or your school when you could be talking to the guidance counselors who have (or can find out) a sense of what the faculty will say about you in their letters of rec, have seen where previous students from your school have gone, and are there specifically to help guide you into college?
While the stats / UG match is a consideration, the most important is that you choose UG that you personally feel fit you. Nobody here will know. Many went to places close to home, you were actually accepted to Ivy / Elites. No advice here wil be relevant to your situation, nobody knows your criteria and waht you are looking for to have at college, what kind of student body you may fit better…there are lots of very personal details that make you the only person to know which UG will fit you the best.