<p>Dear people of college confidential.
i am going to pull a 3.8 my freshman year of high school.
then i am transferring out of my high school (International academy west) to lakeland HS. Although international academy is a far more rigorous school that trains you to get a IB diploma i was wondering if IA or the other school would be better. at the other school i am going to be able to get a 4.0-5.0 depending on how many honors and ap classes i can take sophomore year. also at the other school i will be taking calculus 1 as a sophomore at a local community college. during the summer of my sophomore year i will be taking calculus 2 and taking calculus 3 my junior year of high school. i plan on taking as many science courses as possible over my 3 years at lakeland focusing on biology and chemistry as i want to be a doctor. if i can pull a 4.0 at lakeland all 3 years i will pull a 3.95 gpa. at the same time as this i will be heavily studying for the ACT and SAT my sophomore and early junior year. hopefully this will up my scores :). my real question though is whether this interesting looking transcript will be better or worse accepted by harvard and if i have a chance at all of getting in. Please help.
EC’s:
soccer:2-3 years varsity
Track:2-3 years varsity
how many hours of community service do i need?
anything else i need.
possibly/probably salutorian/valedictorian.</p>
<p>You are still in your freshman year of high school?</p>
<p>There are a lot of ifs in your post. I suggest that you try this but take it one step at a time, if you feel like it is too much then ease off. I know people who have done stuff like this, but I’ve also known people who quit because its too much. You will work very hard without any break for the next 15 years, and if you plan on being a doctor don’t expect you will have much time off in your career. Fortunately you have plenty of time to decide if you can handle it or if you need to take it slower or even do something else entirely.</p>
<p>If you do pull all of this off then you will get into a good school. As long as you have good grades nobody cares which high school you went to, except maybe Harvard and there’s no telling what kind of bizarre system they have for accepting people. Same as med school, they don’t really care which school you go to as long as you get that high GPA.</p>
<p>Why do you want to go to med school? Why do you want to go to Harvard?</p>
<p>1.) cheat as much as possible without being detected
2.) sabotage other’s experiments
3.) don’t need to understand, just memorize, because understanding in biology is useless
4.) stay the hell away from real science classes like physics, chemistry, computer programming, math, etc. since they’ll lower your grade and make your feeble premed brain hurt.
5.) get a 300 GB hard drive and 5 GB of RAM, but you only need a 500 Mhz processor.</p>
<p>typical premed.</p>
<p>That made me laugh. You forgot to mention that they should avoid having a personality, or attachments to other human beings, or doing anything at all ever unless it leads to more $$$.</p>
<p>memorization is understanding in biology ;)</p>