<p>I have five schools I'm applying to. Binghamton, The College of Saint Rose, Manhattan, SUNY Geneseo, and SUNY Stony Brook. I know very well that with regular admissions to basically any college, I should have little to no problem getting in to a majority of them.</p>
<p>Stony Brook is where I want to go, for a variety of reasons, most importantly because I want to become a Pediatrician after getting a degree in Biology. Or Biochemistry, I'm not completely sure.</p>
<p>The problem comes in with a small thing I had completely forgotten about until now. Stony Brook has a completely different program for wanna-be medical students, known as Scholars for Medicine.</p>
<p>I'm Hispanic (my dad was born/grew up in Chile). My GPA is, weighted, a 98.876, and without weighting is a 95.34. These are cumulative, though, and I'm hoping they could go up a tiny bit because the first quarter at my high school ends in around a week. My SAT score was a 2020, 660CR/770M/630WR. I didn't take the ACT, nor any SAT II's mainly because I missed the deadline to take the exams, and I'm hoping to apply sometime this month. </p>
<p>Should I take the risk and apply for the Scholars for Medicine Program? Stony Brook is my first-choice college, mainly because it is close by (so I can commute and save thousands of dollars by not dorming), and because I really like the campus and the school itself. Or if anything, if I take the regular undergraduate program, could I still blend into the Med Program later on? </p>
<p>Also, I apologize if there's a really simple answer I just don't know about. I'm the first in my family to go to college, which makes things somewhat more confusing than they should be.
And of course, thank you.</p>