<p>Ok. I’ve been on CC for over a year now. I’m ancient, was in the class of 2001 and am getting ready to start my 3rd year of medical school, yada yada yada.</p>
<p>I didn’t really have a college search, b/c my parents basically said “we can pay in-state tuition, or a little bit more, but that’s it. Any place you go that exceeds that level, you’ll have to find a way to pay for.” Of course I was more than content to look at state schools, and ended up following my parents to their alma mater, a flagship state U in a neighboring state. It was also right from a pragmatic stance as I was more than happy to graduate debt free from undergrad knowing that med school was on the horizon.</p>
<p>So I’m curious to see what people would now list for me as reaches, safeties and matches, now, even though I was probably no where near as accomplished as most CCers.</p>
<p>My stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 4.38ish (w) 3.83ish (uw) (this might be high…I honestly don’t remember)
Class rank 35/440 in a large suburban high school outside of Kansas City
APs: English Lit 4, English Language 4, US History 4, US Gov’t 4. Also took Calc AB class but not the exam b/c I was getting C’s in the class. Didn’t take any AP sciences b/c I wanted to take Anatomy and Physiology instead. Otherwise those were all that were offered at my school.
ACT: 34 (not sure what the section break down was but I do remember that I got 36’s on science and reading sections and a sub 30 on the math section)
SAT I: didn’t take - if it helps, assume that I would have gotten a similar %ile on the SAT as I did on the ACT.
SAT II: didn’t take
I realize that is probably the most atypical part of my application compared to current HSers - SAT IIs were not a very big deal in my area nor do I believe at the time (they’ve become a much bigger deal in the past 6 years it seems), and I don’t think I knew of anyone that took them. If they did, then I wasn’t really paying attention.</p>
<p>Accomplishments/involvement:</p>
<p>*National Merit Commended Scholar Award
*NHS: 11,12 (my school didn’t accept you until jr. year)
*Spanish NHS: 11,12
*Soccer: 9,10,11 - JV
*Academic Quiz bowl:10,11,12
*Yearbook: 9 (still in Jr. High though)
*Boys’ State: 11
*Volunteer soccer coach for 4-6 year olds - probably 25 hours a season for 6 seasons (spring/fall 10,11,12)
*Part-time job - 11,12</p>
<p>*HS “Buddy” program - had an elementary student buddy, went weekly for an hour (non-tutoring relationship though). 10,11,12.</p>
<p>*Top Freshman history student award</p>
<p>*Ewing M. Kauffman Foundation HS “Transportation Project” - Local, semi-competitive project where teams of HS students examined issues (and posed solutions) as to why Kansas City has absolutely no workable city-wide public transit. Grade 10.</p>
<p>*“How do you build a city?” Project - outgrowth of prior year’s transportation project. We examined the aspects of city planning and management, while working with second graders at a nearby elementary school as they went through their “my community” curriculum. Grade 11</p>
<p>*Junior League Cotillion Escort: Grade 12 (bigger deal than it sounds like)</p>
<p>*Shadowing local Orthopedic Surgeon: Grade 12 (ended up being second semester senior year though, so was past application deadlines)</p>
<p>College Credit other than AP:
Sociology - 3 credit hours (from the transportation project)
Spanish 4 - 5 credit hours through HS/local CC program</p>
<p>LOR’s were great.
Essays would have been solid </p>
<p>So assuming that cost wasn’t an issue, and ignoring some of the big things I was looking for out of college (Greek life, location, size, D1 sports - esp football) let’s just say I would have gone anywhere, what would you currently suggest for someone with similar stats?
I would have been a sociology major - pre-med.</p>
<p>For disclosure, I was in my university’s Honors Program, and I did get accepted to the UMKC 6-year combined BA/MD program if that gives you any indication on how I did in the one competitive place I applied. Thankfully I turned them down.</p>