What are some reaches, middles and fallbacks
Intended major? Preferred location? Size? Needing merit and aid?
Premed, middle sized and disregarding merit and aid
No location preference? And do you know what your unweighted GPA is? Did you take SAT subject tests? ACT?Preference for private vs public? City vs rural setting? (Sorry but there are so many options without narrowing it down some)!
What have your parents told you that they are ready, willing, and able to pay? Are you eligible to file the FAFSA? Start with the budget (horrible as that may sound) so that you know how serious you need to be about finding places that are affordable.
Premed isn’t a major. It is a series of courses that you need to take in order to be eligible to apply to med school. You can major in anything - yup dance, classical languages, business, anything.
Your 3.93 weighted GPA is meaningless outside of your high school. In some exaggerated weighting schemes, it could be based on an unweighted GPA of 2.93 or lower.
As others have mentioned, you need to know your cost limits.
3.5 unweighted would prefer a city and dont care about public or private, also I wont take my subject tests till June
Let’s cut to the chase and toss out a few possibilities?
- Probably out of reach: Ivies, Stanford, MIT, UChicago, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore
- Reach: Some other NESCAC schools, Boston College, Macalester, URochester, Case Western
- Match: Many state flagships, American U., George Washington, Whitman College
- Safety: Many directional state universities; many "Colleges That Change Lives"
PR admission selectivity ratings >= 95 appear to be reaches;
~90 = match/targets;
<= 85 (and affordable) may be low match or safeties.
However, some schools might bump up/down depending on major, geographic diversity, need-aware policies, etc.
(in addition to other factors mentioned above).
Try using an online match tool that lets you plug in your stats and preferences.
Not a lot in cities that match your profile: U of Miami, Fordham, Pittsburgh, Tulane, Boston U., Denver, George Washington, American, Southern Methodist, Richmond, Minnesota, Ohio State.
Ok…premed isn’t a major at 99.9% of schools. Premed is an intent, a path or track. What will your major be?
Have your parents said that they will pay $70k+ per year for any school that you pick? If so, super. If not, then we need to know the situation/limits so we can suggest workable suggestions. You can’t borrow much, so if you were thinking that cost won’t matter because you’ll just borrow it all, that won’t be possible. But again, if your family will pay all costs, then you’ll have many choices.
Buy a Fiske Guide to Colleges. Don’t throw this out to an anonymous forum that knows zip about you, besides gpa and SAT. An admit hangs on more than that. Lol, we don’t even know your year or state. Learn what holistic means, how aid works. Be engaged in this. Because you’re the one who’ll apply. It’s your future.
TCU, UT-Dallas, and UT-Arlington are a good match for your stats, and the DFW area has 2 medical schools. University of Houston is also a match and there are 3 medical schools in Houston. Texas Tech is another match and Lubbock has a med school as well. Texas A&M is also a match and there is a medical school in College Station. UT-Austin is a match and they just built a med school in Austin. Last, There’s Texas State and UTSA, which would be considered safeties. Both are in a driving distance from the med school in San Antonio. Another safety is UTEP, and a new medical school was built there recently.
Cost limits?
State of residency?
Apply to UC’s and CSU’s if you are from Cali.
Thank you all for your help!