I have not been deferred I applied with RD lol If i got differed I would not be confident, and I am not that confident, just hopeful.
Are you graduating HS after your third HS year? Please answer.
I’m also curious about the physics C exams.
Yes as I will have taken 11 ap classes (12 if you count DE) and finish rank 1 in my grade. I essentially have outgrown my high-school though my ACT score could be better.
For Physics C I am self studying that and appear to be doing quite well! My school district offers access to all tests but doesn’t have the classes for them.
So…YES, you will be graduating HS when you are 17?
And then you hope to graduate college when you are 20 (3 years in college)?
Just checking for clarity.
Ideally yes, if it makes sense its the rush that I love and live for.
I know I’m late to this discussion, but you’re operating under some misconceptions re: med school admission.
- AP credits. While most med school do accept AP credits, those AP credits don’t always/usually fulfill admission requirements. To be considered a competitive candidate for med school, for every credit you earn thru AP credits, you need to supplement it with an equal number of additional credits in the same dept.
IOW, if you get 6 credits via AP for gen chem 1 & 2, you’ll need to take 6 credits in inorganic or analytic chem with LABS in addition to the other chem pre-reqs. (ochem, biochem). Ditto for bio and physics.
- You cannot know right now, as a high school student, what med schools you will be competitive for 3 or 4 or 5 years from now. Your state residency, your GPA, your MCAT score and your ECs will determine where you will apply. So it’s unwise to start eliminating yourself from potential schools by only fulfilling admission requirements for a few.
P.S. Med school admission requirements are changing and evolving. Most schools have already added social science requirements for admission to better match what the MCAT tests.
But the BIG CHANGE is the movement away from course-based admission requirements to competency-based admissions. You can read about the initiative here: [AAMC Core Competencies for Entering Medical Students](https://healthprofessions.wsu.edu/documents/2015/06/aamc-core-competencies.pdf) A significant number of schools already use core competencies when making admission decisions and many more have announced they are transitioning to using them in the near future. By 2021, AAMC expects that ALL US allopathic med schools will be using the core competencies for admission. AACOM also is transitioning all osteopathic med schools to competency-based admission.
- Early high/college graduation. Med schools really don’t care at all about this one way or another. You don’t get bonus points for graduating sooner than typical. However, regardless of how long it takes you to graduate you will still be compared against students who have taken 4 years to complete college as well as those who have finished college and taken gap years to strengthen their ECs & applications–and your ECs will need to be just as strong & impressive as theirs.
ECs are where most younger than typical applicants get hurt. If you plan to graduate in 3 years and want to matriculate directly into med school, you have only 2 years to get all the expected ECs done–clinical or lab research, clinical volunteering, long term community service with vulnerable populations, physician shadowing, holding leadership positions in your activities and teaching/tutoring/coaching. (The word doctor comes from the Latin docere meaning to teach or instruct, and doctors spend a good deal of time educating their patients about their health.)
There’s a saying about med school admission: your grades and MCAT score get you to the door, but it’s your ECs that get you invited inside for an interview.
Note I am not saying it can’t be done. In the med school class behind D1, there was a 19 year old first year. She had graduated from high school at 16 (with 30 dual enrollment credits) and completed her BS degree at UCLA in 3 years. She began her pre-med ECs when she was ~15 years old. She had journal publications and had founded a public health/community service organization in her hometown that is still in existence 6/7 years later. (So not a resume fluffer–it’s the real deal.) But this girl was an unusual exception, not the rule.
And before this thread gets closed, please also answer what other GA school you are looking at that you mentioned as a backup several pages back. Are you trying to do the auto transfer to tech option or what?
my thoughts
AP: D16 had 30 hours of credit from AP classes going into college this year. She will not be able to graduate early because the sequence of classes in her major (architecture) is completely set and dependent on prerequisites that aren’t AP. The 30 hours of credit makes no difference in price either because it’s flat rate per semester. just fyi.
WHY HURRY?: Husband is and engineer. He graduated at age 21 and started working 2 weeks later. He often regrets taking college in 4 yrs and not doing anything beyond studying and classes.
SMART ONES: He’s in the energy field. He’s mentioned many times after meetings with others about projects & proposals that the smartest ones in the groups are always the engineers. That’s because engineering is tough and demanding.
My child is graduating from Gt ahead of schedule but my child spent a year at college in high school plus AP’s and is dying taking 16 credit hours a semester. State university science courses and ap do not even compare to gT. Please realize most students take 12 credit hours per semester. Walking into nonintroductory science labs with no college experience would be a rude awakening at GT. Oh and by the way regular admissions has a lower admission rate than ea and there is no such thing as grade inflation. While you are obviousy very smart so is everyone at GT and profs grade on a curve which is painful. If your long range goals are med school, GT is a GPA destroyer.
I’d agree with you and I understand the risks of taking a hard course at a hard university, but I am well aware of the risks. I don’t believe I am special but I believe I can get in. I think, and maybe its because I am naive, that I can get a good GPA. I’ve done my research and talked to people who’ve went to GT (brief talks), and from what I can tell with the right planning and right work ethic a good GPA is very possible, but by no means easy. One thing I will note about me is that I am a well balanced learner, as in I can pick up almost anything fast i’ve never really struggled with a subject at school, (if the teacher was fair) but who knows maybe GT isn’t meant for me. Its all in speculation as of now. I will update this post in 3 months letting everyone know about what happens.
Really though, as you can’t pay, it is all moot. What safety do you have? That is the discussion worth having. If you believe your URM is such a hook, where have you leveraged that where it matters? (i.e. not highly selective OOS publics). Have you worked on any WUE schools? Do you know which schools would give you a better shot at med school?
My once A student who scored a 35 on the act with zero prep is no longer an A student. While some students get a strong gpa hanging onto a 3.0 is very respectable at GT and a tremendous amount of work.
Seconding scubadive’s anecdotes with my own. Even at my big state school (less selective and possibly less demanding than Georgia Tech, though ABET accreditation might even it out a bit), I am no longer a straight-A student. I’ve failed tests, I’ve had to fight just for a B. College is rough. Engineering is rough.
You can’t just repeat that maybe you’re naive, but you think you can. The smarter path is to explore the realities and listen to people here who know. Process this info, not just say, “Well, shucks, I think I can.” That’s not based on much. Since you haven’t yet been to college, haven’t studied engineering, etc, you don’t know enough to just go on confidence. The only experiential basis is your one hs, how its classes go, how you got graded. And some not-related ECs.
The concern is you’re planning/dreaming without this perspective. Rein it in. Say that, if you get the admit, you will do you best, focus, get academic support, as needed, and maybe later see if graduating early is possible.
Don’t put the cart before the horse.
If you don’t mind me asking what is their GPA at Georgia considering how smart they are/appear? Also congrats on raising your child to be so smart, we need more parents like you.
Are you saying you have NO AP scores to judge your grades by?
3.0 in engineering. Entered college with 60 or so credits. My child is in two classes right now with a bell curve. So every student is competing against each other. The average grade in the class will be a c. So even if whole class got a 90 or above which does not happen at GT the majority of the class would not get an a or b. Right now my child just got an f grade up to a d and is working hard to get to a c. GT’s reputation on grades is not an exageration. It is a humbling experience for top students. While my child loves gt cant wait to get out. If you really want to go to med school, GT is a risky undergrad choice.
And just for the record…if GT is hard…medical school isn’t a cakewalk either.
But we have TOTALLY digressed from the title of this thread about getting instate residency.
This student is a resident of South Dakota for tuition purposes.