i joined the club: BS/MD Programs

MiamiDAP
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:20:52 +0000

ACT must be brought up. My D. had ACT=33 (took once), graduated at the top, tons of ECs, both medical and otherwise, varsity coaches expressed interest. She did not get into some programs last year, including some at state schools. She did not even applied to the ones on your list, they are way too competitive. She got accepted into 3 programs at state schools and in one of them now. Very happy with her choice. My advice is to include wider range of schools.
Weighted GPA will be recalculated by college, so that is good to be #2. By the way, Ds school did not weight honors courses either, but she was #1, so it did not matter.