<p>Thanks for your response:</p>
<p>I know it might seem like that I’m doing too much, but for some reason, I feel that I work better when I’m under pressure. Perhaps I wouldn’t know otherwise, so this is why I’m reconsidering my options. But would admissions officers see this the way you see it or the way that I see it. How can I explain my case that way? I abhor the term “overachiever”–it’s not that I seek out all of these things to do just for the sake of doing them for a resume or whatever; I’m not competing against anyone else, it’s because I truly want to do them, and it’s a part of the dynamic character that I’ve developed, probably stemming from high school maybe even younger. </p>
<p>I want to go to a school that’s on the same level as the one I’m at now because that’s just a logical transition, I’m not going to work really hard at a top 20 university just to go to my state school (it’s not good, let me tell you). I just want to get into somewhere that is “good” in my book, again I’m not looking for Harvard or Johns Hopkins. </p>
<p>I also want to get people’s feelings on rigor of undergraduate institution along with GPA. I would hope med schools don’t take GPA at face-value, but I could be wrong. My gpa isn’t killer, but it’s not too bad considering the B-(2.7) median-average that I have for my classes. I know that for most “good schools” the gpa falls somewhere in the 3.7’s.</p>
<p>Thanks again,</p>