Finalized College List Advice

MYOS1634
Sat, 29 Jul 2017 18:34:32 +0000

Your record is absolutely impressive, but a problem is that acceptance rates of 20% and below mean “automatic reach for everyone”.

What’s your UC GPA?

Considering UC’s all use the same app, include UCSC. Or apply to ucr’s special pre health track right away, I think you can do it this summer.
Add a private safety (Lewis and Clark? UPugetSound?)
Right now your list is too risky

Can you afford all these? Have you run the NPC and discussed costs with your parents?

Why doesn’t your list include Bowdoin, Bates, Pomona, Davidson, and Whitman? Whitman would be a low match and Davidson a high match. They would be more hospitable to a premed than UC’s.
(Basically, the premed track in California is a bloodbath, especially the UC’s, because there are so many talented premeds and so few med school spots in California, so the weeding is ferocious.)