What Pre-Med schools should I consider for these grades?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>State of Residence:
New York</p>

<p>GPA:
Unweighted: 92.1 (According to CollegeBoard that's a 3.7)
Weighted: 93.92 (According to CollegeBoard that's a 4.0)</p>

<p>**Note: Mainly people living in New York City will understand me, but I go to a specialized High School. You get a specialized diploma as a special. And grades are worth more in these schools. (A 3/4 in a specialized high school, might be worth a 3.5-4/4 in a normal High School)</p>

<p>Advanced Classes:
AP World History-4
AP Chemistry-4
AP US History-3</p>

<p>**Note: This senior year I will take AP AB Cal, AP Economics and AP Literature</p>

<p>SAT:1890
Math: 680
Reading: 620
Writing: 590 </p>

<p>**Note: I am planning to retake the SAT this October and try my best to boost up my writing and reading scores.</p>

<p>ACT: 25 </p>

<p>I am not planning to take the SAT IIs except if the suggested Pre-Med school requires it, in which I will take it in October.</p>

<p>Rank: My school doesn't give ranks so I don't really know...</p>

<p>EC: Member of MSA (3 years so far), Member of Chess Club (3 years so far), Member of Chinese Chess (1 year so far), SAT Prep Club (A Semester). Volunteered 171.5 hours at a public library. Volunteered at a local pharmacy for about 50 hours so far.</p>

<p>**Note: I signed up for National Honor Society for senior year. </p>

<p>So...what schools?</p>

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<p>bump again</p>

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<p>Please read the read first: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/377780-premed-forum-faqs-read-first.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/377780-premed-forum-faqs-read-first.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Any school that you like and have a chance at being accepted. I does not matter. Did you prep. at all for your SAT/ACT? Your GPA is not in line with your scores, indicating that you did not spend any time preparing for them. I might be wrong, but I do not see how one with GPA=92 would not have higher scores. They might limit your choices. Make sure to prep. before retaking.</p>

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<p>Honestly, you may just want to consider a state school, as NY has many very good options. A major pre-med program will often only make it harder for you to compete and get into a good medical school. The best way is often to just go to a college you like where you can excel and stay involved in a variety of ECs.</p>

<p>Maybe look at Binghamton. It’s the only public school in NY I know a decent bit about (being from out of the state), and I’ve heard very good things.</p>

<p>Good luck</p>

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<p>@Miami: Yes you are right. I just went into the exams without much studying unfortunately due to the workload at school…Im studying now though.</p>

<p>@Nitwitoddment: I was planning to have state schools as my safety net…but good advise.</p>

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<p>It doesn’t matter where you go to college, as long as it is not a community college. You will see numerous pre-meds from “average” colleges get into top medical schools and numerous pre-meds from “top” colleges get rejected by all the medical schools they apply to. The most important thing is what you do in college, not the reputation of the school. </p>

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<p>I agree with MiamiDAP, your gpa is not in line with your test scores. Usually when colleges see a high gpa and low standardized test scores, they will think your school is grade inflated.</p>

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<p>Go to a good school. Make sure you can score better on standardized tests in the future. A 25 on the ACT doesn’t exactly bode well for your MCAT (i.e., someone with your ACT score is fairly unlikely to get even an average score on the MCAT, much less one in the 80th or better percentile needed to get into a US medical school).</p>

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<p>@Colleges: That makes so much sense. Thanks. I will now start thinking of other options. But Im miserably confused. Some people tell me to aim for the top. While other, like you rightfully did, told me that the top doesn’t matter. You make perfect sense since what you said is true. But aiming for the top never hurt anyone…Im so lost.</p>

<p>Actually it was just a matter of me not studying. I took the SAT in June, and to be honest, I didn’t have much time to study since I was too busy studying for AP Chem and AP US History :confused: …that I admit was my fault. But no grades at my school are not inflated. It’s actually a very competitive high school that you take an exam to get into (Its in the US’s top 100 High Schools)</p>

<p>@Apumic: Well, you see, I took the ACT as an extra lol. I didn’t take it very seriously, I really am the SAT type of person, not the ACT one…and not many students in NY take the ACT. But I guess I could retake it again. And BTW NYU is a top Uni. and it’s average ACT score according to CollegeBoard was a 27.</p>

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<p>ACT Composite: 27 - 31 Middle 50% of
First-Year Students</p>

<p>27 is the 25th% for NYU</p>

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<p>Silence:</p>

<p>Also note that ‘matt’, who was accepted into both NYU and Cornell with ‘low’ scores is a URM and applied to those colleges’ specialized programs (hospitality/hotel) where passion/interest is more important than test scores. OTOH, you will be applying to Arts & Sciences for premed…</p>

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<p>@bluebayou: Who is Matt? What is URM? Sorry for my ignorance :S</p>

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<p>silence:</p>

<p>matt is a cc poster who received merit money from NYU (on your other threads) with <2000 test scores. URM = Under Represented Minority.</p>

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<p>Oh, I see. Thanks for explaining.</p>