transfer (premed)

Transfer Students
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<p>Hi, I have my heart set on going to medical school and need to know the best way to go about it. I am currently midway through my freshman year at stonehill college in MA. I am a biology major, in the honors program here, recieved a 3.9 gpa my first semester and have been asked to TA for two of my classes next year. </p>

<p>In high school my gradepoint average was about a 3.7 unweighted and I took entirely honors/AP classes. I recieved 5's on both the AP psych and bio exams. My combined SAT score was 1920 with a 1300/1600 on the old scale.</p>

<p>I feel that graduating from stonehill college, even with a very high GPA will put me at a great disadvantage when applying to medical schools so I am looking into transferring to a school with better rates of students being accepted into medical school.</p>

<p>So far I am considering applying to Boston College, Holy Cross, NorthWestern and Johns Hopkins, (I know the last two are big reaches).</p>

<p>So my questions are:
Do you think my concern is a valid one about graduating from stonehill?
Do you think I have a legitimate chance of being accepted into any of these schools?
How would you rate BC and Holy Cross for students chances of being accepted into medical school, assuming they do very well.
Which one of these schools is the best and would give me the best shot? right now I think my two favorites would have to be Northwestern followed by BC.</p>

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<p>I would be absolutely elated if someone could give me any guidance at all or at least tell me what I am doing wrong.</p>

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<p>i would suggest you cross post this in the premed forum. i'm also a premed transfer (i'm at a communtiy college tho so our situations are completely different and i can't really offer any sage advice) and i've found that posting in that forum gets a lot more responses just because well it's a premed question and that's the premed forum.</p>

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<p>thanks a lot, i'll do that. :)</p>

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<p>the main thing here is that you need a high score in PCAT( pharmacy major), MCAT( any medical major) or National Board Test for dentist or anything.
Also, you have to be done the pre-req for pre-med( Most folks get BA before they apply to medical school).</p>