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<p>intended major:</p>
<p>Neuroscience
(pre-med path)</p>
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<p>GPA: ~3.8 weighted; School doesn't do unweighted</p>
<p>rank
140/700(might go up)</p>
<p>SAT: 1860 total
620 Math
600 CR
640 Writing</p>
<p>Will take again for 2000+ hopefully</p>
<p>ACT:
Comp- 28
Math-29
English-27 essay-8/12
Reading-28
Science-29</p>
<p>AP:
Euro-3
USH-4
English Lang- 3
Calc AB - (next year)
Physics C E/M + M - (next year)
Psych - (next year)</p>
<p>Class levels
greater than 7 Honors courses
around 6 AP courses</p>
<p>Honors:
Distinguished Honor Roll
Regular Honor Roll
AP scholar? (is this important)</p>
<p>EC:
Marching band(1 year)
National Honor Society(2 year)
Drama Club(1 year)
Ultimate Frisbee Club(2 year)
Mathaletes(1 year)
nextyear: environmental action, tech club</p>
<p>Volunteering:
100+ hours at hospital
Community Service class at school
Tutoring
Events manager at local temple</p>
<p>Academic electives:
Architect Interior Design I (AutoCAD)</p>
<p>Fine Arts electives:
Marching/symphonic Band
Drama(2 performances) </p>
<p>Other:
Featuring Community Service Major (Community service class)
3 years of french</p>
<p>And if you would please kindly sort them reach/match/safety :D</p>
<p>sry if wrong forum</p>
<p>What are your selection criteria besides having neuroscience and academics that are sufficiently rigorous to prepare you for med school? These two criteria alone still leave you with a list of dozens if not hundreds of schools. It would help to know what you can afford, what part of the country you want to be in, the size of the school, the culture/deal-breakers/must haves, how far from home, urban/suburban/rural, etc… The more you can tell us about your optimal learning environment, the more likely it is that we can suggest good options.</p>
<p>Well
location: close to a large body of water or in a large city (like philly or atlanta)
size: med or large
affordability:
- anywhere from 0-50k (inclusive of tuition, room, supplies)
- i think ill get some financial aid like maybe 5-10k, possible work-study, federal student loan, parents are willing to take loans and can fork over maybe 15-20k (depending on federal aid)</p>
<p>You might want to have a conversation about money with your folks if you haven’t already. If they can afford $20k p.a., that will probably cover your in-state public university without any debt. Most reputable schools will provide sufficient pre-med prep to get you where you want to go. Medical school will cost between $200-300k for 4 years (followed by more years of low-paid residency) and the typical medical school student graduates with between $140k (for your in-state school) and $200k (private schools) in debt. If your parents are planning to go into debt in order to help you, that would be the time to do it.</p>
<p>Medical schools are not prestige driven so any reputable school will be fine-they care about your GPA and your MCAT score (and your state of residence for the in-state option). </p>
<p>That said, there are dozens of reputable medium to large urban schools that will have neuroscience. Use the search engine on CC to generate a list. Midsized to large private unis in urban areas that might match your stats, off the top of my head, include Boston College, Northeastern, Drexel, Temple, Fordham, George Washington, American, College of Charleston, Wake Forest, etc…And that doesn’t even touch the public unis or schools not on the eastern seaboard. There are literally dozens that would fit the criteria you’ve provided if you include the rest.</p>
<p>what about schools based on my stats? i live in PA too but would prefer out of state</p>
<p>Those suggestions were based on your stats. Check the common data set for each school (Section c) to determine which are reach, match and safety. Most of those should be match, but I’ll let you do the homework unless someone else on CC wants to do it for you.</p>
<p>Thanks for your support M’s Mom</p>
<p>SonicCare,</p>
<p>Here are a couple of ideas:</p>
<p>UW-Madison
UIUC</p>
<p>Both have Neuroscience programs, both are close to big cities – UW is an hour from Milwaukee, a little over two hours from Chicago and Illinois is also a couple hours from Chicago, if memory serves.</p>
<p>UW has the slightly better national and international academic rep (UW is #25 globally according to academic rep), but both are excellent schools, very strong in the sciences and engineering.</p>
<p>Others will have other ideas, obviously, but those are two solid ones.</p>
<p>Get your SAT up a bit and you’re a good bet to get into both.</p>
<p>FYI, you’ll want to figure out what your unweighted GPA is. General rule of thumb:</p>
<p>A = 4
B = 3
C = 2
D = 1
F = 0</p>
<p>A “+” adds a bit (except for A’s… where I come from the best you can do is 4.0) and a “-” subtracts a bit. Others will have better info about how much a + or - adds or detracts, or you can look it up online.</p>
<p>If you’ve gotten mostly A’s and B’s, you should be okay GPA-wise, but get that SAT up.</p>
<p>Thanks Mister or Miss 
Ill definetly check those out</p>
<p>Before you go hunting down Common Data Sets for an open-ended string of schools, buy a good college guide- Princeton Review or Fiske. You can cover a lot of ground, faster. At least go to a bookstore and see what they are about. </p>
<p>You’re also going to need to bone up on financial aid- the fact that your parents may be willing to pay 15-20 may not jive with what the college expects from them. You can run NPCs on the individual college web sites (finaid projectors.) Unless you’ve already run NPCs, you don’t know if you’re in a range that “could” get 5-10k aid. Also, many schools just lowball you. They may not have much funding to offer, in the first place. 50k minus 5500 student loan minus about 3k combined work study and “student contribution,” leaves 41k. Your parents may be able to swing a higher contribution- if not, the total they would borrow may be just too high to make sense. </p>
<p>So, get engaged in some finaid savvy, too. Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks Ill really look into it</p>
<p>Much easier than digging up common data sets is searching [url=<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com%5DCollegeData.com%5B/url”>http://www.collegedata.com]CollegeData.com[/url</a>]</p>
<p>It has most of the useful CDS info in more accessible form.</p>
<p>SonicCare,</p>
<p>To check the NEt Price Calculator for a given school, put this in your Google (or whichever) search field:</p>
<p>Net Price Calculator Northeastern
Net Price Calculator University of Wisconsin</p>
<p>(etc.)</p>
<p>Ask your folks for either exact info or at least ballpark figures, to give all of you a fair approximation of what you might expect to pay. It <em>is</em> in their best interest to care about it and (thus) to give you accurate info.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that this is solely need-based; if you can get merit-based aid, that will lower your family’s contribution.</p>
<p>best of luck</p>
<p>“UW is an hour from Milwaukee, a little over two hours from Chicago and Illinois is also a couple hours from Chicago, if memory serves.”</p>
<p>prezbucky, your memory is being very charitable. It’s a solid hour and a half to Milwaukee from Madison and a minimum 2.5 to downtown Chicago (more in traffic or bad weather). Of course, UW-Madison is right along a fairly large, beautiful lake, Lake Mendota. But your suggestions are good otherwise.</p>
<p>Bump as this is not a debate about location</p>
<p>You should really do some research on your own. Even starting with the search tool on this site would be helpful. Or go to the library and pick up a couple of books–even if they’re a few years old. Things don’t change that fast with colleges.</p>