Help Me? MD and Pre-med

MYOS1634
Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:36:18 +0000

I agree you need a smaller school with a lot of attention and a good record of getting students into med school.
You may have a shot at Juniata (pretty much a sort of health profession prep college :p), Elizabethtown, perhaps Lake Forest (but that last one is above $50,000 - and you wouldn’t qualify for merit aid), perhaps Earlham (great record of taking underachieving kids and getting them into grad schools).
Can you retake the ACT in February (late registration => hurry) and see if you can score 30-32? That would help your admission.
A test score isn’t as indicative as a GPA so getting into a school will be harder than if you had the reverse trend (high GPA/low SAT: ie., hard working and dedicated but bad luck on test day?) and you’ll really have to dedicate yourself once you’re in college.
Doing 2 years at a community college* (pulling a 4.0) then transferring to a good college for the last 2 years can be an alternative.

in PA that would mean applying for a branch campus then 2 years at University Park but be aware that to be offered a branch campus you would typically need 3-3.4 GPA so odds aren’t very good.