kunnel_25

Im trying to get into a No MCAT or an Accelerated Program .

East Indian Male, Junior in HS,North TX, Competitive Public HS (like #10-15 in TX) that sends top ranked 1-15 students to top universities such as Rice, Duke, Notre Dame, Tulane, Vanderbilt. My families low to medium income.

ACADEMICS

SAT: around 2150 (M:750 W:700 CR:700 E: 8 lol ) (Practice)
SAT II: 770 Math 2, 720 Bio

GPA: Approximately 4.5-4.7 W
Toughest courseload possible so far

AP English III
AP US History
AP Computer Science AB


will be around 10 AP's by the time High School's finished...


Rank: 13/455

Recommendations: Recs will be from a doctor that i shadowed and worked with and also one other rec will be from my clinical teacher (RN) who has seen me through my clinical practices

Essay: Will be awesome; Will probably talk about how my mothers illness and hard times in my family motivated me to study and educated myself and become a sucessful person

Awards and Honors

Perfect Attendance Sophmore, Junior Year
AP Scholar with Honor
Green Cord - Junior Year
Top Volunteer Personale for Hospital


EXTRACURRICULARS
Spanish Club
Health Occupation Students of America (Treasurer)
Habitat for Humanity
NHS
Rotary Club of my Local City
National Youth Leadership Program
Local Hospital Volunteer Auxillary.

HOOK: I have a CNA License and I want to become a doctor so ive had clinical experience at a local nursing facility; I'm also in one of the top HS clinical programs in TX .


this is just a brief outline i would just like some advice and opinions

bluedevilmike

... you're a certified nurse anesthetist?

hpa10

i think hes a certified nurse assistant

bluedevilmike

That would make much more sense.

matrixrebloated

GPA, SAT, and rank need some work, but your at a pretty competitive school so it might be hard

also, being a nurse is totally different from being a doctor, so you might want to be careful how you use that in interviews and essays, because most people who don't do good on the MCATS and get admission to med school don't become nurses, they go into biology fields or other social science fields

johnnytremain

"GPA, SAT, and rank need some work, but your at a pretty competitive school so it might be hard"

are you kidding?

chaz90

GPA looks pretty dang good to me. Granted, we don't see the classes you didn't get A's in, but a 4.5 is a good GPA. Class rank looks good too. 13/455 is top 3%, and although it's not val or sal, there are a lot of programs that would be fine with that class rank. I agree with matrixrebloated that your SAT needs some work, but I'd try the ACT as well. I got a 2120 on my SAT, but a 34 on my ACT, so the ACT certainly worked out for me. Good luck.

kunnel_25

ive only had 1 'B' my freshman, sophmore, and junior year but they were high B's
and why wouldnt i mention my CNA certification? it shows that im medically interested and inclined to pursue a career in medicine.
On my SAT- Ill have it up by the time i apply to college

chaz90

I don't think anyone said not to mention CNA. It's all fine and good to have your CNA cert, but just realize that it doesn't prove as much as some other programs. What you're doing there might give you some good experiences, but there are other ways to get better experiences for medical school. Use it, but cautiously.

bluedevilmike

It does not show that, because nursing is very different from medicine. If you mention it too much -- I'd still mention it, but I'd be relatively quiet about it -- then you run the risk of convincing admissions committees that you don't know what medicine is.

Spr33

I'd work on SAT I as people said above but also SAT II. You want to go into a completely science based field and scoring just 720 on Bio. No offense but kids who apply to these programs score 780-800's on their SAT II sciences. And I assume you'll be taking AP Bio, Chem and or Physics...? I'm not sure what your school system is like but I would definitely suggest taking ap sciences if you really want to go into medicine