@compmom, there’s no real problem. I just want to identify schools that put a lot of emphasis on scores since that is where he shines in comparison to his grades.
Isn’t Vandy and their med school, pretty high up among the institutions that receive a lot of research funding from NIH?
University of Pittsburgh would accept him I would think, with that ACT, and the weighted GPA.
They also receive a lot of research funding from NIH.
I’ve gotten to know him and his family well enough from my undergrad years to the present to know there was no depression involved nor any physical ailments or mental/emotional issues during our undergrad years.
There were family conflicts, but that was almost completely due to his academic underperformance in college and his refusal to deal with the issues needed to be addressed for so long that it took him nearly 8 years to graduate.
His father especially was quite frustrated and angry about it considering all of the resources the then well-to-do upper-middle class family provided him and the fact he was an excellent student until undergrad.
So what do YOU think the problem was? Lazy or just stupid compared to you?
Also, no one can always know for a fact that another person has absolutely no mental or emotional issues. People can be experts at hiding those.
A part of it was somehow his boarding school didn’t prepare him well for undergrad in some critical areas whether it was meeting stricter deadlines, effective study skills, learning how to write a basic science lab report(None of the science courses he took in HS had labs), or the serious knowledge gaps which factored into his academic struggles despite earning a 5 on APUSH and unwisely in retrospect skipping our undergrad’s US history survey course which would have covered those gaps.
And no…he was anything but lazy. If effort was all that was needed to do well…he should have far exceeded me or every other classmate in our classes.
I wouldn’t really want a school that emphasized scores 
I would want a more holistic admissions office, honestly. The son here will be able to get into a school that is a good fit, with the whole picture he presents.