<p>Hey guys! Senior girl here, desperately looking for the perfect college. If anything comes to mind while reading the following description, please comment below. I'm scraping at the shreds of ANY ideas to come up with list of top ten. Thanks a million in advance.</p>
<p>So, as the title says, I'm interested (well, interested is an understatement. Being an MD has been my dream since all eternity) in a strong premed program. It's also incredibly important that the school also has a good global/public health program, as I want that as my minor.</p>
<p>However, I don't just want a science heavy school. I love things like art history and writing, and would love a school that has quirky organizations like a quidditch team, or hacky sacking, or underwater tea parties. You get my drift? I love and thrive under competitiion, but I also want a good community feel where people like to have fun (and party hard) together.</p>
<p>Here are my credentials:
-founding president of Girls Who Code (getting underrepresented people, mostly women, into computer science)
-AP Classes and an advanced form of the IB program in which I have already received my diploma
-2100 SAT and will be taking SAT II in bio, mathii, and spanish
-founding president of global health coalition between 3 schools in my city, partnered with world-renowned research mentors and institutions, all to get high schoolers interested in making a difference in the global health community and taking on a global perspective to issues
-coach of unified soccer, a faction of special olympics to teach disabled students soccer and sportsmanship
-7 years of premiere (highest club level) soccer
-soccer captain
-member of all the classic high-achieving student clubs (key club, national honors society, blah blah blah)
-two years of varsity gymnastics, four years of varsity soccer
-peer mentorship to freshman struggling with getting acclimated to high school through Link Leaders
-top 3% of my class
-summer lab intern for biomedical engineering
-intern for epidemiology at a world-renowned university
-4.8 weighted gpa, 3.9 unweighted</p>
<p>I actually don’t know about liberal arts. I was thinking more research-based and definitely urban, hopefully on the northeast coast or california.</p>
<p>Look into Emory. It’s literally next door top the CDC and offers a huge number of ways that undergraduates can get involved (my freshman roommate currently works there). It also hosts the on campus Carlos Museum of Art and speaking as a former student, has plenty of parties (although by no means is it a party school). Applying ED substantially increases one’s chances of admission.</p>
<p>well I don’t know where you’re going to go to college, but it sure is fun to look at names of the Quidditch teams! The Tufts Tufflepuffs, the Long Beach funky Quaffles, New York badasslisks, RIT dark marks, Rutgers Nearly Headless Knights, Vassar Butter Beer Brewers, and many more.</p>
<p>Well, you are academically qualified for most colleges, although the most selective will be a reach for you (as they are for most applicants). If finances are not a major concern, then you could either go the Liberal Arts college route. Most have strong Humanities and Natural Sciences. You could also try some large research universities where there will be the abundance of course offerings you seek. If finances are a concern, you will need a broader variety of matches and safeties,including your own states’s public universities. Colleges like Reed, or the Claremont Consortium, offer very little in the way of merit aid and won’t always meet financial need. You have strong enough credentials to consider a huge range of colleges like Syracuse, Pitt, Temple, Tulane, all the UCs (although Berkley and UCLA are reaches), University of Miami, BU (not sure about Quidditch there) . . . to Whitman, Occidental, Fordham . . . almost anywhere, actually. </p>
<p>The student has a 2100 SAT. We don’t know the M+CR breakdown. </p>
<p>Anyway…If this student is super serious about going to med school, the goal should not be going to some highly competitive school. The risk of ending up with a GPA that isn’t med school worthy is too high. GPA repair is extremely difficult as a premed…especially the BCMP GPA, which is so important. </p>
<p>This student seems to have sights set on top schools where her test scores are low.</p>
<p>Every year , in the premed forums, some college frosh or soph posts, very upset, that their GPA’s have taken a hit. The saddest stories (to me) are from the ones who thought they were so lucky to get an acceptance to a top school (where their stats were average). In hindsight, they realize that their “dream school” likely has now cut-sort their dream career. </p>
<p>Being premed is different from other undergrad pursuits. In most other pursuits, if you end up with a 3.4 GPA, you’re still good to go for your career. Not so for a premed. That isn’t a med school worthy GPA. A desired GPA is a 3.75+…and that’s not likely when your stats aren’t strong for the school.</p>
<p>If the student has about a 1400 M+CR, then let’s see how that measures up with her list:</p>
<p>G’town…upper quartile has 1510+</p>
<p>Duke… upper quartile has 1560+</p>
<p>Cornell…upper quartile has 1530+</p>
<p>Wash U…upper quartile has 1560+</p>
<p>this is a problem for a premed unless her stats are within that upper quartile.</p>
<p>the student needs to ask herself…Is going to med school and becoming a doctor the # goal? or is something else the #1 goal. If it’s becoming a doctor, then select a school where she won’t likely get tripped up. </p>
<p>University of Texas - Hands down best in the world at Quidditch. (Back to Back World Cup Championships )</p>
<p>Also a really great school academically. Are you from Texas? If so you are easily in. Also referencing mom2collegekids ^ , undergraduate education is important before med school. In regards to getting a good GPA. UT is a great choice as an undergrad before going off to med school.</p>
<p>college of wooster (wrong location as per your post, almost everything else is a perfect fit)
I would not chose a school because it is on some beach or coast or something along those lines.
also I would look at hendrix college.</p>
<p>Shockingly low GPAs with good MCATs still get you in from Reed, though I’d be curious about the exact breakdown. But Reed is a notoriously hard school, so I’m sure their low GPA kids are still amazingly well prepared and med schools know that. Don’t think you can pull that low GPA just anywhere and still pull off a med school acceptance. Get it from Directional State and you are likely doomed. Get it from Harvard and you have a much better shot.</p>
<p>OP clearly has the raw ability to get in med school, the key is going to be going to a place that will develop them into a good med school candidate. Definitely look for schools with good pre-health advising, good ones will guide you through from Day 1 and get you out the other end, which is why LACs are often a good bet for pre-med if you can afford them. Just pick a good one, as some have better advisors than others.</p>
<p>Quirky/nerdy, quidditch team, art history, premed… are you totally opposed to women’s colleges (within consortiums that include co-ed schools for guy-meeting?) Mount Holyoke might be worth looking into. Smith and Wellesley, too.</p>
<p>Most schools have good pre-med. I have a niece who’s just interviewed at Harvard and Columbia for her medical residency program. She’s in one of the best medical schools in the country. You know where she did her undergrad? A community college and UCSB!</p>
<p>So focus first on what you can afford, then on your other passions and requirements (quiddich, urban). The quality of pre-med courses should be secondary, since you can do pre-med (it’s really just basic science classes, after all) just about anywhere. </p>
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