<p>Hello! I am a senior this year in high school and I have no idea where I should apply to. I want to go pre-med and my gpa is about a 3.86 but my ACT score is only a 25. I want to go to an undergraduate college where the acceptance to medical schools are high but the college itself is not very hard to get into (no harvard, yale, princeton etc). I have done plenty of activities in high school like volleyball, speech and debate, key club, fbla, nhs, art club and an internship at a hospital plus over 190 hours working at a doctors office. I would love a place with a beach but that is not my main priority i also do not want a college that is based off of religion. Any help would be great because I have no idea where I should go....thank you:)</p>
<p>What is your home state?</p>
<p>My home state is Colorado</p>
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<p>Acceptance rate to med school isn’t going to tell YOU anything about YOUR chances.</p>
<p>It also doesn’t tell a high school senior anything since many/most pre-med students change their minds after getting their Gen Chem or Organic Chem grades…and they realize that they don’t have what it takes…or they decide that med isn’t for them. </p>
<p>A university’s med school acceptance rate is determined AFTER the students go thru the years of undergrad and have been WEEDED out during the very difficult pre-med pre-reqs and/or after they have gotten an unsatisfactory MCAT score.</p>
<p>The pre-med students that never end up applying to med school are not included in the acceptance rate stats. </p>
<p>Acceptance to med school is due to a HIGH undergrad GPA and a HIGH MCAT score (which has correlation to the ACT score…right now, predictions would NOT be strong that you’d have a high MCAT score based on your ACT score.) </p>
<p>If after all the weeding takes place, the remaining pre-med students were mostly all very high stats students, and most of them got into med school, what will that tell you about YOUR chances? Nothing. </p>
<p>Your best bet will likely be UC-Boulder, CSU, or a similar Colorado public. </p>
<p>How much will your family pay each year? That will also determine where you should apply.</p>
<p>many schools have former or very loose religous connections.
I would look at hendrix college, it sounds like it fits what you are looking for!</p>
<p>Hendrix College
Gettysburg College</p>
<p>There’s a pre-med forum here on CC which should give you lots of good background info on getting into med school and some of this influences where you should apply/go as an undergraduate.
I think you should focus on these factors:
SAVE MONEY - look closely at your best state schools. 8 years of college is a ton of money, so you need to take the cheapest path as an undergrad. Unless you are wealthy ;-:
KEEP YOUR OPTIONS OPEN - as said before, many pre-meds change their minds, often because they stumble upon other career options during college that fulfill their ambitions but don’t require med school and residency programs. Sometimes they just burn out. So a school that has lots of other options to explore such as engineering, biotechnology, public health, etc. etc. Research opportunities, internships etc. If you already had secondary majors or interests in mind, make sure the school is strong in those departments too.
LEARN HOW TO TAKE TESTS - Some really great students are just not great SAT/ACT test takers, but if you do stay on pre-med track, the MCATS are really important.</p>