<p>hi i am 14 years old and i am a 9th grader, im on the honor roll, im in honors math, and i
last year my final average was a 92.2, we didnt get report card yet. I play jv football we are 9-0, and i am on the wrestling team, as well as the leadership team. What do i need to do to get in to harvard or any ivy league college?
am i on the right path right now</p>
<p>there's a book by chuck hughes, former harvard admissions officer, best to read that, this is a long topic. Or read some of the many threads on this, but that will only give you a partial and incomplete view</p>
<p>thanks for the info</p>
<p>i have a question
see my goal is to become a pediatric neurosurgeon
not because of the slary but because my sister is autistic and we as in my family believe it was from a seizure that she had. but any way i know that is a big goal and that i am only in the 9th grade but what should my main focus be on in school. what courses should i take in high school to put me into a good college preparing me for medical school</p>
<p>I think you should show interest and take more courses in life sciences (biology and chemistry (though chem is not a life science it is important))
Take many science classes but make sure you remain well rounded. Don't sacrifice important subjects for science.</p>
<p>This is only to show colleges you will be good as a premed or maybe good enough to get into a 6-8 year med program. Premed years is when you should really consider course selection. For high school, you won't really suffer losses if you didn't take this or that science course. But demonstrate interest in high school just so you can get accepted to good programs - but be well rounded.</p>
<p>Excel in science in HS, maybe take Neuroscience as a major (my bro does at Pittsburgh and its well known their, if you're interested) and get accepted to med school.</p>
<p>Just make sure you get the most out of HS, there will be plenty of time to specialize, just do enough to show your passion.</p>
<p>mitch -- you can get some excellent advice from the people that post here, but please don't share so much personal information (your name, location, wrestling team name). It is too easy to identify you -- and you may not want that later on.</p>
<p>I asked the moderator to make some adjustments to your posts and remove some of the identifying info.</p>
<p>welcome to CC!</p>
<p>Don't listen to this guy</p>
<p>I wish I had discovered this site earlier. You are smart to be concerned and have goals at your age. I believe your wanting to become a doctor is of true passion.</p>
<p>Seriously, though, this is a public forum:
have the courtesy to use proper capitalization and punctuation.
Moreover, that you are so eager to divulge all of your personal information
to absolute strangers means you have some growing up to do.</p>
<p>It's far too early now for you to be thinking about college:
you are still a little kid.
You will start all of your research junior year.</p>
<p>do colleges look into voulunteer work like lets say your profesion is medicine and you voulnteer at a pediatric facility would colleges put that into consideration?</p>
<p>on the contrary you should be worrying about this now, your junior year is to late to start thinking about college if you intend on ivy league.. that is unless your a prodigy genius and you plan on getting a perfect SAT ACT score (in response to the above statement.</p>
<p>Network, get leadership roles, do community work, master an instrument....</p>
<p>and yes that volunteer work would look great. What you need to start doing is job shadowing doctors and asking them what they did. Also gaining fluency in another language is important. German's a good one for the science field. </p>
<p>Don't waste your summers!</p>
<p>In response to kwu</p>
<p>"Seriously, though, this is a public forum:
have the courtesy to use proper capitalization and punctuation.....</p>
<p>You would do well to heed your own words especially when correcting someone else. On top of that you didn't lend anything valid to the thread. No he shouldn't be worrying, but yes he should be vigilant.</p>
<p>It is NOT too early to prepare for college, especially for Harvard or other schools of Ivy League. Typically college will evaluate your potential in several areas: academical performance, leadership, social activities and others. Trying having some focus ECs and to be creative. 92.5 average is okay, but if you can boost it to 95 or higher will help for these top colleges.</p>