<p>My PSAT scores are as follows:
Critical Reading: 54
Mathematics: 53
Writing Skills: 52
Selection Index: 159
Percentile: 71</p>
<p>My life goal is to become a surgeon, and am debating trauma surgery or neurosurgery. I am aware of the time, dedication, and money it will take to achieve these goals- but nothing else in my life will make me this happy. My mom is a pharmacist and is a Davis/UoP graduate, if it makes a difference. I have quite a bit of immersion in the medical field, I’ve been hanging around hospitals since I was 4, so I know what I am getting into.</p>
<p>My question is, what should I do? My grades haven’t been the best, and neither have my extracurriculars. What universities will accept me? Where can I apply? What courses should I take? The counselors at my school aren’t very clear. All information and ideas are considered, so please feel free to state your mind. I’d like to stay here in Ca. for my higher education, if possible. Next preference would be the western U.S. I don’t want to leave the country for education.</p>
<p>Something that I hopefully have going for me is the fact that I speak the Aramaic language fluently, and belong to a very small minority here in the US. I also take Latin at school, and have taken some Spanish.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for reading, and I am looking forward to your input and suggestions!
Matt</p>
<p>In regards to the PSAT, I took it when I was extremely sick, so sick that I ended up in the hospital that same night. With that in mind, I should be able to score much higher on the SAT- I will have studied for it, and hopefully will not be that sick when taking it!</p>
<p>Do you think I have a chance at UC Merced or similar if I push myself 110%? I am also going to remediate my D in Spanish during summer school. </p>
<p>All advice is good advice, so please feel free to speak your mind! </p>
<p>If you can change completely by greatly improving your grades, you will make it to a UC.
If you continue on your current trajectory, you will only have the option of either being a CC transfer or CSU student, which diminishes your chances somewhat at a med school.</p>
<p>Your grades are rather low for having a good shot at a strong pre-med program. Have you considered going to a less competitive college for a year or two and then transferring?</p>
<p>I had thought of going to CSUN for one or two years, and then transferring over to a UC. </p>
<p>2 years CSU
4 years UC
4 years Med School
4-6 years Specialization</p>
<p>So, I will be ~32 years old by the time I reach my goals. I’d like to go for the fastest approach there is, but I also don’t want to end up in the Carribean for med school.
Is it possible to go to a CSU for 4 years, and then transfer to a med school?</p>
<p>If you transfer to a UC, it would be two years at a CSU and then two years at a CU. You don’t transfer to medical school, it is a whole new admission process that will take place during your senior year of college (the only exception to this is BS/MD and BA/MD programs).</p>
<p>No, BS/MD and BA/MD programs are not realistic, it is very common for people who get into ivies to get rejected by the programs. That being said medical school admission in based on college alone. So focus on getting into a college with a decent pre-med program that you will be happy at and then once you are in college start worrying about getting into medical school.</p>
<p>If anyone’s out there, what would you say is the “easiest” and “best” college/uni to get into with my grades. I understand easiest and best are subjective terms, but your opinions are VERY appreciated.</p>
<p>I would say that doesn’t matter.
Easiest - you learn for life. If you don’t receive an acceptance to med school, do you want to feel like you have hardly worked and learned?
Best - that is wherever your learn the most, For example that easiest is not always best. </p>
<p>You are not at all a bad student. A solid B average is still above average at many, many colleges. Maybe you should check out some of the colleges that change lives; some have med school acceptance rates of 100% (and provide an excellent education without being super selective).</p>
<p>Your post says you care. The answer is, make the most of next two years and get on it with all the things you know schools want. You have lots of time left, get a tutor, get whatever is needed to turn it around. That said, I live on the east coast and will tell you about a friends daughter. She had okay HS stuff/grades and went to UNC Asheville. She was an RA, did lots in the community and was well known to all the professors at this smaller school and got published as there are no grad students there…This school is is a bargain BTW and a very cool city). She got into 3 medical schools…UNC, Wake Forest and Duke coming out of there. Her mom, (an MD herself) said the RA thing, and the profs knowing her were huge…of course she got good grades as well. </p>
<p>My point is, its sometimes not where you go to college, or where you get in, its what you do with it while you are there. Just some food for thought.</p>
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