<p>Ok, so I am over with the out of state school. Now I am looking more into instate (virginia). My goal is to go to a medical school and don't really know what undergrad school to choose from. I heard majoring in science actually hurt your chance of getting into medical school unless if you are really passionate about science (like really passionate), the med school want to see the diverse of your knowledge. Can you guys help me which school I should be aiming for? To tell the truth I kinda screw up my high school year so may be top school like UVA or W&M won't even bother looking at my application (I'll try anyways may be I get lucky but I don't put too much hope on it). What do you think I should do? I am looking at VCU (bc I heard it has strong premed-track), VTech (maybe I can get in), JMU.
I live in DC so I really want to get away from this area so no GMU. Oh, and i might major in Criminal and Justice (Forensic)</p>
<p>My status (shamefully)
GPA: 3.4 UW, 3.75 W
AP: 4 courses (Chem, World His, Stat, and Eng Composition) and one dual Enrollment
SAT (-_-) 1650 ( or may be higher since I took it again, and palnning to take it again)
Planning to take ACT and SAT 2 (since SAT2 score wont due till Feb)
EC: some clubs, editor of Lit mag, Community service at Boat People SOS (by graduation should be around 150+ hours), church worship leader for 3 years, and I helped my mom at her restaurant (15 hours/week) and that mostly the reason why I couldn't do sport or join more activities.</p>
<p>Thank you for taking your time reading this and provind some thoughtful comments</p>
<p>Your high school status doesn’t matter to getting into medical school. Just go to the school that fits you best and look at their stats re. med school. Med schools do look at the rigor of your undergraduate school, but in the end, the GPA and MCAT are what matter (and research during your undergrad years).</p>
<p>Apply to the ones where, socially, you’ll be able to focus and get the highest GPA. The college itself is only a vehicle in the eyes of med school admissions panels. It’s how well YOU do. If you see yourself doing well in a small school, then go there. If you see yourself being lost or caught up in rah rah campus of some big state school, then don’t go there.</p>
<p>Colleges don’t have any particular “ins” with med schools. It’s the individuals and how they utilize the colleges that matter. For instance: Yale boasts 94% acceptance rate of its undergrads to med schools. But is it magic in Yale’s biology, chem, org chem classes ---- or the quality of the student who attends Yale? I say it’s the latter.</p>
<p>Your hurdle is to transform yourself into one of those top performing collegians while cranking out your med school pre-req classes. Can you do this?</p>
<p>One more thing: go to the one that will leave you enough cash so you won’t need to borrow $200K to go to med school.</p>
<p>Do you live in DC itself? If so, you need to find out the status of the special rule that grants DC residents in-state rates in various states. You might not be limited to Virginia.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you. My suggestion is that you figure out how to ace standardized tests, because if you aren’t in the top 1-3% on the SAT now, how do you expect to be in the top 50% of MCAT takers four years from now ???</p>
<p>Like it or not, fair or not, the world of prestigious education belongs to excellent standardized test takers.</p>
<p>P.S. I have also heard good things about Mary Washington.</p>
<p>I agree with the suggestions of Mary W, VCU, and VT.</p>
<p>BTW…you may not want to go to GMU, but you have to apply there as a financial safety school if money is an issue at all. If the other schools don’t work out, you’re still going to need to go to school.</p>
<p>The reason my SAT is low because I started to learn the English alphabet 3 years ago (my math is 720, I failed the other two though). Hoping few more years in college would hone my English enough to be on par with people who been living here longer.
And yes, if those schools don’t work out I will go to community college. Even if it’s still in the area, at least its cheaper and i have better chance at transferring to the school I want to go to.
Thank you for your answers :)</p>