Even the slightest chances at ANY BA/MD Program??

Evilbooyaa
Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:11:42 +0000

colsen, the only thing is that you are a unique situation because of your explainable, but still alarmingly low, GPA.

most of the people on this board are used to straight cut gpas, stats, ranks, etc. while your situation isn’t very positive (only b/c of that GPA to be honest) it is hard to tell since all of those grades WERE in 10th grade, and you have rebounded nicely since then.

I can say that you have some nice ECs, a job always helps (again, the hours not as important as you would think), if you can find some way to do some sort of research, possibly, instead of more hospital volunteer hours (hours of volunteering don’t equal quality, just quantity) you’d be better off. not saying that hospital volunteering looks bad, just not as good as research.

I think the grades that single-handedly hurt you the MOST are the WF in chem, and the D in physics. not only b/c they’re your lowest grades, but also b/c they are in science, both of which are necessary to do well as pre-med (not necessarily a med student though)

I’m kind of curious what a prefect is. never heard of that term outside of harry potter, so you may want to explain that in a couple lines as well.

as well as projected SAT and ACT scores, shoot for at least a 1450+ Math and Critical reading, and I think a 30-32+ ACT. I found the ACT much easier, so if you can get it as high as 33-35, that’d be best.