<p>So over the past year, I never registered here, but I've been lurking and I've collected a lot of info. Will someone help me and eliminate some colleges because they're out of place or if I have too many reaches?</p>
<p>I'll keep it short.</p>
<p>I'm Chinese at a public hs in CA.
SAT: 2120
UC gpa: 4.14 (w), 3.90 (uw)
Regular GPA: about the same as UC
ECs: average for the most part, when compared to people on this board.
Major: depends on the college, but in general chemistry or economics</p>
<p>Colleges:
UCSD (econ and/or chemistry with pre-med focus)
UCB (econ or management/finance)
UCI (chem with pre-med)
UCD (chem with pre-med)
UCR (chem with pre-med)
Brown PLME
Northwestern HPME
UMich Ann Arbor (pharmacy or business or chem with pre-med)
U of Pacific (5-year pharmacy program)
UPenn, Wharton (I can dream, right? but, management/finance)
Columbia (chem with pre-med)
Wash U in St.Louis (chem with pre-med)
Tulane's 7-year med program (?) (chem pre-med)</p>
<p>I think I have a lot of matches or reaches...will someone suggest some safeties? THANK YOU! :)</p>
<p>UCR is a waste of your time. UCI is okay, but UCSD and UCB are better. UCD is huge, but if you don't mind that you can go ahead. It's all one application anyway. Columbia is quite a reach, as is Brown, but I think they're good choices on your part.</p>
<p>The state schools are there for safeties, but I don't think you need to go that low. How about the Claremont Colleges? Scripps has a nice scholarship program if you apply by November 1. That's the woman's college. You do have a lot of reaches; how about you weed out which ones you really want before we suggest any. What sort of environment are you looking for? I'm seeing big campuses. That's fine. What sort of weather? You span a long range, from Cali to Michigan is a big leap. What's your criteria?</p>
<p>take off wharton! i dearly love wharton, but you're pre-med for heaven's sake</p>
<p>If you're not sure about pre-med, take off those bs/md programs as well</p>
<p>pharmacy is a major committment (I know I've studied all the programs out there) and I'd highly advise against UoP if you're not 100% sure because you can always major in something and then apply</p>
<p>Take off some of those UC's. You can't like them all. Davis is very good in the hard sciences. I'd keep her</p>
<p>I guess the easiest way to explain this is that business suddenly became a sort of interest of mine over the past year, even though pre-med's been in the back of my mind on and off throughout my life. I haven't had time to develop on the business side since I never explored it, but I did start a small ebay business last summer.</p>
<p>Pharmacy is kind of a 2nd choice kind of thing...if I can't make it past pre-med requirements. Also, I'd probably accept UoP if they offer me enough scholarship money so my parents would pay less.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses. Appreciate it very much. :)</p>
<p>Eliminate the combined med programs and Wharton. Those programs are designed for people who are genuinely and wholeheartedly dedicated to a particular field. If you're still unsure of whether or not you want to be pre-med or pre-business, don't apply to those programs. It's very difficult (maybe sometimes impossible?) to back out of those programs, so don't get yourself into something that you might regret later. Explore your options in college. There's no harm in applying to Brown, Northwestern, and Tulane's regular undergraduate colleges. As for Penn, I'd suggest applying to the College, because it'll give you the flexibility to explore all your options. You can always tranfer into Wharton if you later decide to pursue business.</p>
<p>Might look at Duke as a reach and add schools with good pre-med programs like Holy Cross or Tufts. Holy Cross likes to recruit West Coast students.</p>
<p>I think my heart lies in Columbia (if I could get in!) and UCSD but obviously two selective colleges only isn't going to help me very much in terms of admissions, so I've been exploring. I'd like to go undecided, but my parents won't back me up with money if I don't declare something.</p>
<p>I don't think pharmacy is an "easier" road...it's a second choice, whereas premed is my first, and if I can't make it through to that, I'd go with a second choice, like most other people.</p>