<p>be brutally honest. any opinions would be very helpful. </p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>GPA W: 4.19</p>
<p>GPA UW: 3.63</p>
<p>ACT: 34</p>
<p>SAT: 2200 -> 1490</p>
<p>PSAT: 201 (Nat'l Merit Commended Scholar)</p>
<p><em>self studying for SAT II: MATH IIC and BIO taking in oct</em></p>
<p>APs Taken/Will Take:
- AP Gov
- AP Lang
- AP US
- AP Spanish
- AP Lit
- AP Bio
- AP Psych
- AP Calc AB</p>
<p>AP Exams
-AP GOV: 4
-AP LANG: 5
-AP US: 3</p>
<p>Volunteer: approx 100 hours
- Local Hospital
- Facilitator at Children's Museum
- Freshman Mentor
- First Class (kind of like DARE, be a good person, character) Leader (teach a class one day a month)
- Literacy Center Tutor (3 day/week during lunch/before school)
- Humanitarian Service Project</p>
<p>Extra Curr:
- Speech Team 4 years, 3 yrs Varsity, Varsity Captain
- Badminton Team 4 years Fresh Captain
- 3 years Varsity Badminton, Senior Varsity Captain
- Tennis Team 1 year</p>
<p>Misc:
- Nominated for the Harvard Book Award for outstanding Jr English Student
- Emory University School of Medicine Summer Science Academy (3 week program at Emory)
- Mini Medical School sponsered by Midwestern University</p>
<p>My older brother goes there; hes a 2nd year currently. I know they raised the GPA requirement this year to 3.7 (I think?). Study hard for that Bio exam as SLU only accepts a 5 for med scholars. </p>
<p>I can forward his contact info to you if you have any specific questions.</p>
<p>BTW, his stats were pretty mild compared to yours (30 act, no national merit, etc.)</p>
<p>actually the AP Bio test i will get a 5 im pretty confident after a full year of bio . . . but im taking the SAT II in 2 weeks but it isnt required so it should be okay. </p>
<p>thats good to hear. i guess now ill just apply and see how it goes. </p>
<p>i didnt have room for AP Chem so i took a weighted class we have called Applications in Chemistry that is a lab based course that delves deeper than regular chemistry we are currently touching on the basics of OrGo.</p>
<p>i'm in SLUs medical scholars and the ONLY reason people might think its "easy" to get in is because by the end of freshman year, half the accepted don't make criteria. midterms just ended here and there are a lot of freshman on the brink of failing out. Its a great program and the medical school is on its way of being amazing. Plus, the acceptance for the program isn't based on test scores and GPA like northwesterns or brown plme. as a catholic institution it bases its acceptance on the person as a whole meaning... you need good extra curriculars, shadowing experience research, international/national recognition.</p>
<p>people might think its easy because slu accepts around 100 kids into their program. HOWEVER, as i was trying to say before, 50 fail out by the end of freshman year and by senior year... there are only +/- 30 kids in the program (just like any other ba/md)</p>