Seeking suggestions

Pre-Med & Medical School Multiple Degree Programs
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<p>Can experienced folks help me?
I am giving my stats below and the colleges that I plan to apply.
Please help me come to reality and let me know if I should remove some colleges from my list and add some others. </p>

<p>My Stats:</p>

<p>SAT I: 2210, 800 Math, 700 Critical Reading, 710 Writing
SAT II: 700 Chemistry, 790 Math II, 800 Physics
AP(score): Physics (5), Chemistry (5)
Awaiting scores for: Calculus BC, Biology, MacroEconomics, MicroEconomics
Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP Psych, AP Art History, AP Spanish
GPA (out of 4.0): 4.12
School doesn't rank
Major Awards: National Merit commended</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Participated in School Clubs: Math Team, Science league, JSA, Medical Futures<br>
Band (Freshman year only)
Math Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, Science Honor Society
Girl Scouts (8 years)</p>

<p>Leadership:
Student Senate (Freshman)
Girl Scout Gold Award project lead (sophomore & junior)
Officer of Medical Futures Club (senior year)</p>

<p>Job / Experience:
Works 3 hrs/week at a doctor's office (taking height & weight of patients)
Summer Internship at a research lab (medical related)</p>

<p>Volunteer/Community Service: >300 hours (Feed the Children, hospital, girl scouts)</p>

<p>Awards: Science Olympiad (our team placed first in state for our category)
Girl Scout Gold Award
National Honor Society</p>

<p>Planning to apply to combined programs:
Brown PLME
Northwestern HPME
Boston University
Univ. of Miami
Villanova / Drexel
Penn State
VCU
George Washington</p>

<p>For 4 year colleges:
Georgetown
Barnard
Brandeis
Franklin and Marshall</p>

<p>Please help me with your suggestions.
I know BS/MD programs are extremely competitive. Is it worth even applying to Brown and Northwestern ? Would it be helpful focusing that time and energy on the other apps instead?
What are my chances at any of these schools?
Thanks for your help!</p>

<p>-aGirlScout</p>

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<p>Your stats are pretty good and you have decent ECs.
HPME and PLME may be reach.
What about R/B, Rochester& USC?
What state are you a resident of? Do you qualify for need-based scholarships? It is a shame to get accepted to the best schools and not be able to go.</p>

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<p>Not saying the scores are bad but I’d up them to like 2300+ for SAT and 750+ for chem to have a shot and Brown and Northwestern (although scores are okay for the other programs). To your list another suggestion to add is the RPI/Albany 7 yr program. Overall your chances are okay but not amazing- just apply widely and you will probably get at least one program. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thank you very much golfblackhole and breaker746!</p>

<p>I am in the Northeast and do not qualify for need-based scholarships. However I am hoping that parents will help me! I hear USC’s program is discontinued and thought R/B is a reach for me for I heard they only take 10 students. My parents suggested RPI/Albany. But given that Albany is in a very cold place, didn’t want to apply there. Too much snow depresses me.
Summer is going to be busy with research internship, so I don’t think I can improve my SAT scores. I know doctors in different areas. Would it help to shadow them? (Rehab specialist, podiatrist etc). Or should I spend more time on the research internship in stem cell research ? Where would my time be most worth?</p>

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<p>I think you have a good shot at these schools. Your stats are pretty good, however, you should try and up your 700 chem.</p>

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<p>^On the contrary, I believe subject tests play a negligible role in the selection process. Out of the several programs I applied to, none of them even mentioned the subject tests as part of the selection criteria. Some of them didn’t even want me to send them.</p>

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<p>^Really? That’s pretty interesting. Where did you apply?</p>

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<p>Several. VCU, USC, UMDNJ, UMKC, and Penn State are the ones you are probably most familiar with.</p>

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<p>Interesting.</p>

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<p>If you care to be in combined program, apply to broader range of them, including in-state state schools. Good read:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/multiple-degree-programs/1155374-ba-md-reflection.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/multiple-degree-programs/1155374-ba-md-reflection.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>your stats look really really good. :slight_smile: maybe just up the sats a bit and you’ll be golden! btw, i’m curious to know how you landed your medical internship and your 3 hours a week/job…did you have connections or do you apply or something to a specific program?</p>

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<p>Get the SAT 1 above 2300, and get the SAT 2 chem to an 800 and i’d say you have a shot at top bs/md. The bs/mds i applied to played heavy emphasis on sat 1’s and 2’s. EC’s are a bit weak too, for top programs. I’m not sure if you could do anything about that now, but try to get some shadowing experience in.</p>

<p>If you dont mind me asking, how did you get a job at a doctors office where you take the height and weight of patients? Are you over 18? I would’ve liked to get a [paid] job doing MA type work, but im not 18 :(.</p>

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<p>awesomesauceness, I don’t have time to bring my SAT scores up. All I can do now is to apply to programs that I should be applying to and leave the top ones out.
I may try to squeeze in some shadowing though.</p>

<p>About the job in the doctor’s office, I casually asked my pediatrician if I could volunteer at her office one summer. I guess the office staff liked me and asked me the following year to work there and they would pay me. It all fell into place without me planning much… call it luck or coincidence or God’s grace…(because I have seen others ask her later for volunteering and she denied them the opportunity)</p>