josesuk

Hello, I will chance for chance .

I am rising senior...
GPA/Rank: I don't know what it is on the 4.0 scale, but the rank is around 13/~700 or top 2%
SAT: 2240/1490 (will take again in October)
SAT II: Math II 800 Chem 770
AP: 5 on AP World History, AP US History, AP US gov, AP English, AP Calc BC, AP Physics B and 4 on AP Stats and AP Chem (both of which I self-studied). I also self-studied AP Physics C (both parts) and will be getting those scores next month.
Classes: Generally, I always took the most challenging courseload. Also took three courses at the local college (Calc III, Real Analysis, and Complex Analysis).
Senior year I am taking AP French, AP Lit, AP Comparative, AP Chem, and a university higher-level math course.

Volunteer: ~250 hours at local hospital
Extra-Curricular: Science Olympiad (co-captain), Debate Club (co-founder), Math Club, French Honor Society, Model UN

I am also doing research in molecular engineering with a professor of the local university over the summer and will be submitting to Siemens/Intel.

The two things I haven't really done are physician shadowing and medical conferences/summer programs. Do BA/MD programs seriously consider these things or should i just focus on research and SAT? Since the summer has just begun, I was wondering whether I should devote a lot of time over the summer looking for physician shadowing.

I am interested in applying to the following BS/MD's: CUNY/Sophie Davis, SUNY Stony Brook, RPI/Albany Medical, University of Rochester, and Boston University.

ANP2012

Your grades are impressive but everyone applying to Ba/MD will have similar stats as yours. When it comes to prestigious BA/MD's it boils down to EC's. The fact that you are the co-founder of debate club and a member of Model UN is great. It proves you're not like the other academic robots who apply to Ba/md programs . Also being in french honor Society is a big boost for your app IMHO. My D applied to many Ba/md programs and from my experience it's a shot in the dark. It is very hard to gage whether or not you'll be accepted into these prgrams; there are too many academic robots (my D calls them "ackbots") competing for these Ba/MD spots these days. Basically I'm saying that I can't tell you what schools you can get intio and what you can get into. I do think that you do have a fighting chance at many of these, also consider Drexel Ba/Md in my opinion it is a hidden gem and US News doesn't give it the ranking it deserves. I recommend you stay at home an shadow a physician and continue to take courses at your local university. If you can, try to see if you can take any humanities courses over the summer (history, sociology,philosophy,English) since many Unis have core curriculums, this will prove that you can succeed is a wide range of academic subjects.

josesuk

Wait, how do I stay home and shadow a physician?

ANP2012

Well since you have done such extensive volunteering at the hospital, try and make some connections and see if any physicians would agree to have you shadow them. Many hospitals have events where local doctors come in so try to go to one of those events and meet physicians. This is how my D shadowed a physician =)

neoevolution

Take Bio-M for programs that require it, definitely shadow a physician (cold call hospitals and practices if nothing else works), and consider applying to Drexel and UConn (easier) and Brown (tougher). I don't think honor society means a thing, most accepted prog students will be in several, but the rest of your app is strong, and many programs love research experience.

risubu

Can you provide a link for the UConn program? I thought that Connecticut residents get preference (which sucks for OOS)

neoevolution

They do get preference, but I still got in, and many of the students I interviewed with were OOS.

josesuk

How much physician shadowing is recommended? I can have time to go maybe once or twice a week for the rest of the summer; is that enough?

neoevolution

As long as you have a meaningful experience to talk about, it's long enough.