<p>Your application doesn’t seem very cohesive. What does developing a software company have to do with medicine? Is the software related to the medical field?</p>
<p>Feeding the homeless is always good. My 17-year-old cooks at a food kitchen, but I’d expect older students, especially those interested in medicine, to do more. Have you volunteered in a lab? Or at a hospital? Any activity that shows an interest in medicine would be a great addition to your application. </p>
<p>How do you plan to “devote (your) IQ to medicine”? IQ is a number. You can’t really devote it to anything. I don’t actually understand the point of including it. You’d be better off, I think, to describe what your area of interest is and what improvements you hope to make in the field of medicine. Are you going to devote your life to finding a cure for childhood diabetes? Wiping out cancer? You need to be specific. Just stating your IQ makes it look like you couldn’t be troubled to think about anything deeper than superficial attributes which really don’t matter in the larger scheme of things. </p>
<p>Are you reapplying to USC? If not, I don’t understand the point of this thread. Finding out a few details won’t give you a full picture of other applicants, so you won’t have any better understanding of the reasons they were accepted and you weren’t. Your time is better spent doing things to strengthen your application. Study the admission requirements of the colleges you’re interested in to find out what they really want, why they’d be a good fit for you, and what you can offer them. Then go do something that makes you come across as a real person (with talents, interests, and accomplishments) who would be a welcome addition to their student body.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>