A Question about Williams

Colleges & Universities Williams College
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<p>Is Williams a good place to be for premed? What is the grading system like there? Is it easy to earn a high GPA for medical school acceptance?</p>

<p>Also, if anyone has something else to say about the premed program, it would be greatly appreciated. THanks!</p>

<p>And for those of u who have the time, what would be my chances at Williams either ED or Regular?</p>

<p>Description:
-Asian male
-Location: TX
-Goes to one of the most competitive schools in Texas</p>

<p>Stats:
-SAT: 2230 (770 math, 720 reading, 740 writing)
-PSAT: 219 (semi-fin.)
-SAT IIs: 760 Bio M / 800 Math IIC / 750 Chemistry
-2/523 (may drop to maybe 5 due to swimming, which gives u 2 advance credits instead of 2 honors/AP credits)
-GPA: 5.71 (weighted) / 3.98 (unweighted)
-Have been taking the toughest course load possible
-APs: World History-5 / Chemistry-5 / English-4
-AP tests that i will be taking this year: Calc BC / Bio / English</p>

<p>ECs
-Swimming (4 yrs, 20 hrs/week): Varsity all 4 years, named rookie of the year freshman year, regional 2 years (most likely region this year too), many awards, possible captain if my coach needs one
-Asian Cultural Club (4 hrs/week): Co-founder and Co-president
-Red cross (4 years, 2 hrs/week): historian (11th), co-president (12th)
-YES program (300+ hours): a volunteering program, received volunteer medal
-Piano (12 years, 3hrs/week): achieved many awards
-Mu Alpha Theta (11-12, 1-2 hrs/week)
-Interact (11-12, 1-2 hrs/week)
-NHS (11-12, hours fluctuates): i think that this is just a money scam</p>

<p>Awards:
-Subject Area Award (same as Student of the Year Award) for Computer Science AP (10th)
-Subject Area Award for Chemistry II AP(11th)
-AP Scholar
-AIME qualifier
-All American Academic Excellence Award (most likely all 4 yrs): an award that recognizes excellent student atheletes
-High School Academic Excellent Award (all 4 yrs)</p>

<p>Summer:
9th: Summer league swim team (8 hrs/week)
10th: AP US history at Rice
----Externship/volunteered in the radiology field at Methodist Hospital / also did journaling with patients: 106 hrs
11th:Research Internship (neurology): around 100 hrs</p>

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<p>The pre-meds peeps i know have it pretty rough. I think that you would have to do premed+a major. All I can say for you is that there’s really, almost no such thing as an easy A here. If you’ve got great time management skills, don’t stretch yourself too much over too many extracur., pick your classes wisely and are pretty smart, then you can get A’s. Depends on how you feel about it really, i can’t tell you it’ll be easy or hard because it’s hard to correlate stats with performance. If I had to guess, then I’d say there’s a pretty good chance you could do well. I think what separates above average from excellent here is drive and a <strong>little</strong> talent.</p>

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<p>Premed everwhere is quite tough. Williams has one of the best set of science programs among LACs in the country, and offers more than enough undergraduate research opportunities. You will get a great education (and consequently do well on your MCAT), get recs from profs who know you well, and have opportunities to do plenty of research if that’s what you’re interested in. Keo’s right in that there is no such thing as an easy A at Williams, but medical schools take that into account. Williams students do extremely well getting into med school, so I wouldn’t worry about it.</p>