RPI/AMC BS/MD

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Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:36:01 +0000

@Supergirl5‌

Your GPA is fine and also ECs are fine as well… Try to get more research opportunities by e-mailing as many professors as you can (>40) until you receive a positive reply from them, but make sure you study their research projects and express your interest in them. Do them NOW!!!

For shadowing opportunities, you should reach out to your and your parents’ physicians. You might want to offer some volunteer work in their offices as well.

Other health related ECs might include volunteering at your local community ambulance corp. and becoming a volunteer life guard if you are a swimmer.

SAT scores are important- the average entering class of 2013 at RPI/AMC was 2206. Your SAT Bio score of 750 is fine. You also need to take SAT subject test in math, and I recommend to take math 2 since the grading scale is much easier than math 1. High SAT scores can help you get a merit scholarship at RPI, ranging from $15K to $30K per year.

For SAT test, I am pasting my recommendation from the previous post:

To “ace” your SAT’s, do ALL of the practice exams from the blue official SAT book under the simulated condition with a timer and without any distractions or interruptions except short breaks( 5 min.) after completing 2 or 3 sections from the practice test. Then you need to check your answers using Tutor Ted’s SAT Solutions Manual or other solutions manual and try not to make similar mistakes on next practice test. To get the best result, you need to repeat this process till you finish ALL of the practice exams. I recommend start this process during the summer between Soph. and Junior year with the intent of taking the test on Sept and Jan of Junior year. By doing this, you do not need to study for PSAT which is important for the merit scholarship opportunity if you are selected as a national merit finalist. For now, start reading either New York Times, Wall Street Journal or Economist to improve reading comprehension and to accumulate vocabulary cards every day… you only need to find 2-3 words daily. By the time you are ready to take SAT test… you will be ready !!! For SAT subject tests, take one test per year during June. If you taking a class on Chemistry that year, then take SAT Chemistry and so on… Try to take SAT subject tests on Chem/Bio/M2.

Good Luck!!