<p>Right now I am a junior and with the year coming to a close I realize now that my gpa was lower than expected and this in turn has thrown all my college choices into question/out the window</p>
<p>What is your budget? How much will your parents pay?</p>
<p>What is your UC GPA??</p>
<p>UCR and UC Merced may be the only UCs that will accept you unless your UC GPA is higher. </p>
<p>Boston U and UWashington will not work if your family won’t be willing to pay the high cost to go there. </p>
<p>Frankly, with your GPA history, you’re going to have a tough road as a pre-med student. You need to have top grades to get into med school. Be sure to have a back-up plan.</p>
<p>If i were you, I would add in more UC’s and CSU’s–because of the formula used in calculating your GPA/scores, you still may get into Davis. You may want to get a tutor to help you bring up your math scores on the SAT --retake in Oct. This would nudge up your chances for a higher UC qualifying score. Have you calculated your UC GPA yet? Go the the Davis website and calculate it now (without 9th grade GPA, without art/PE, etc.). </p>
<p>Med school is going to be costly, so do consider the CSU’s as well (you don’t want to be up to your eye balls in debt in your 20’s, 30’s…). Go to the CSU mentor site and find some other schools to consider.</p>
<p>with out a doubt hendrix college! they produce a crazy high % of med school acceptances /future doctors and the students love the school! us news had it ranked number one in up and coming lac’s!</p>
<p>^Hendrix does have a 90% med school accept rate. Along those lines (LAC’s with good pre-med programs & merit awards in your stat range), you could also consider Ohio Wesleyan (89% MSAR), Muhlenberg, and Knox which offers an early acceptance program with GWU med school. Knox’s accept rates to med school for 2011 graduating seniors was 100%.</p>
<p>*Hendrix does have a 90% med school accept rate. *</p>
<p>that stat needs perspective for a high school kid. Hendrix (and others) do not have a 90% acceptance rate for all of their students who’ve declared themselves to be “pre-med”. Those figures (and a lot of schools have high acceptance rates), reflect the acceptance rate of the much smaller number who have survived the pre-med pre-reqs and all the other classes and have the GPA and MCAT score to even consider applying to med school.</p>
<p>Hendrix and others can’t suggest that the 200+ incoming frosh who declare themselves to be pre-med, that 90% of them will get into med school.</p>
<p>The pre-med pre-req classes are weeder classes, and as each semester goes by, a number of the “pre-meds” are no longer pre-med…either because of grades or lack of continued interest. </p>
<p>I agree with Floridadad that this kid’s aptitude is probably better suited for another profession. Pre-med students need a strong foundation coming in from high school…high GPAs, high SAT/ACT scores and strong in the sciences and math…which are all better predictors of pre-med success…than just desire.</p>
<p>You probably won’t get into medical school. You may need to get a DO. </p>
<p>The reason I say that is because in my experience, kids who get 3.1-3.5 GPAs in high school usually don’t become doctors. If you can’t cut a 3.7 in high school, how can you cut one in college (average UGPA for med school matriculants = 3.7). The kids I know who went to medical school were always at the top of their high school class. </p>
<p>Your test scores are also low, indicating you don’t test well. The MCAT is about 100x harder than the SAT. Kids who get 2100+ on the SAT can usually score 30 or above on the MCAT, the average for matriculants.</p>
<p>Is that your first crack at the SAT? Did you do a diligent job prepping for it? If the answers are Yes and No, then I wouldn’t worry excessively yet as to whether or not you’ve got what it takes for Med School. I’ve known many students who raised their Math score 50 to 100 points just by setting up a serious summer study plan and/or hiring a math tutor. One got a good friend who was an exceptional math student to help him prep for the SAT. </p>
<p>Of course, many/most high school students don’t have the perseverance to set up a rigorous study schedule and stick to it. In such cases, if improving SAT scores is that important to them, perhaps a commercial prep course might be the answer.</p>
<p>Of course, in addition to test scores you’ve got to do something about those grades. If becoming a physician is that important to you you might be better served by attending a college with a reputation for helping “B” students find their wings. UC Davis might be a bit too competitive for you.</p>
<p>BTW, will you require financial aid? Boston University is not going to provide much financial support to a student with a 3.1 GPA.</p>
<p>I do not think hendrix ever claims that all 18 year olds with the dream of being a doctor make it from freshman year @ hendrix all the way to med school! pre med classes will filter out 95% of the dreamers from those with what it takes! but those left over seem to do excellent. I think hendrix looks like an awesome place to do pre med undrgrad!</p>