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<li>Recreational tennis</li>
<li>Debate 4 yrs.</li>
<li>VP of Debate Club </li>
<li>Tennis 4 yrs.</li>
<li>School spirit club</li>
<li>Global Awareness club 3 yrs.; president 11th and 12th; have single-handedly raised $10,000 (including the charity I founded... made it on local news)</li>
<li>IB Program in addition to ~8 AP classes</li>
<li>not asking for financial aid anywhere</li>
<li>Top 10 nationally ranked public high school; very competitive </li>
<li>great rec letters</li>
</ul>
<p>Criteria for university/college:
- New England area, preferably Pennsylvania or Massachusetts
- school spirit
- near a major city (i.e. Tufts), not IN a city (i.e. NYU)
- beautiful campus; yes, going somewhere pretty is a factor
- not cutthroat competition (i.e. Cornell) </p>
<p>I want to go to med school haha, hence the “near a city”.*</p>
<p>What does wanting to go to med school have to do with going to an undergrad “near a major city”? </p>
<p>Anyway…as a premed bio major, you can go anywhere, but you really should go to a school where you’ll be a top student so you’ll have the best chance at having the best grades when you apply to med school. </p>
<p>Getting rejected from Duke may have been a blessing. You wouldn’t have been one of their strongest students, so getting the A’s there in the premed weeder classes may have been an issue.</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh (Depending on how much you like the campus, since some love it and others think it just sorta blends in to CMU and the rest of Oakland)</p>
<p>There are an awful lot of schools to choose from here. It sounds like you’re getting cold feet about Bachelor #2 now that Bachelor #1 has turned you down. And Happy Valley may not be the happiest place for someone who wants diversity and restaurant variety of the city kind. </p>
<p>Whatever schools you choose to apply to, before you hear back from them in March or April make sure you’ll want to go to them. Visit them. Eat several meals there. Spend a night on campus. Check out the dating opportunities, the party scene, the science student vibe, etc. See if there are people there who like the same things you like, dress and talk the way you do. Arrange to sit in on a classroom. Don’t bury your head in the sand and hope for the best as you did with Duke, and as you might be doing with Penn State and (frankly) Villanova. Maybe take a look at Rutgers, UMD, Ohio State, Lehigh, URochester, RPI, RIT. Good luck.</p>
<p>Class rank is low for BC, where ~90% of Frosh hail from the top decile of their class. (Yes, attending a competitive HS is a mitigating factor.) Definitely apply, but lower your sights at this point.</p>
<p>Miami, Syracuse, George Washington, Boston University, Northeastern, Wake Forest. (Yes, I know that BU and NEU are ‘in’ the city, but it is such a great city for college.)</p>
<p>Blue Bayou has good suggestions. I think you would get into BU and Miami. UConn is also good, but I’m getting the feeling that the OP wants private.</p>
<p>Are any of these schools “need aware”? If so, the OP could get a nudge.</p>
<p>?? What is your home state? Sometimes, for a premed, there is an advantage to going to undergrad in your own state.</p>
<p>American University in DC–on the Metro Red Line, so easy to get everywhere–but in NW area of DC, very suburban feeling although there is a good campus area in Tenleytown (walking distance)</p>
<p>Right on cue you got the plug for Holy Cross, like that poster does with just about every post mentioning medicine.</p>
<p>You should know that Holy Cross will only write a favorable recommendation letter to medical schools for its top students. Applying without a strong letter is futile, so in effect Holy Cross controls who applies to med school. Consequently this lets them advertise a high med school acceptance rate. To the kids who paid $200K to attend Holy Cross and were then blocked from applying to med school, I guess them’s just the breaks…</p>
<p>Not on East Coast, but Saint Louis University sounds an awful lot like a good fit. It may be too late too apply for their direct med school admittance program, but they have many great research options and are located in the same area as Washington University med school as well.</p>
<p>edit: I realized after rereading the OP that you didn’t want a city - my apologies - Still a great program, and maybe worth a scan of their website, but not sure it fits your whole criteria.</p>