<p>I am new to this but I want to know opinions on my chances to go to the following schools:</p>
<p>NYU, Macalester, Swarthmore, Upenn, Columbia, and JHU</p>
<p>I am Hispanic and none of my parents went to college. In addition, I am taking the engineering curriculum with almost all my requirements for medical school almost done and with 53 credits and 20 more coming this semester. I have taken only a few humanities and mostly science ,math, and engineering courses. Anyway my stats are the following:</p>
<p>Transfer Term: Fall 2007
Current School: Stevens Institute of Technology
Current College GPA: 3.857/4.0
SAT1:
Math - 650
Verbal - 550
SAT2:
Spanish- 780
Writing - 580
Math 1 C - 650</p>
<p>ECs:
Deans’s List
Cross-country/ Track
Tutoring both paid and volunteer
Summer program at UMDNJ
Part of Health professions club, Latin American Association</p>
<p>Reason:
My school is not as competitive for sending people to medical school and the program I liked which is Biomedical Engineering is not as strong as I thought. I am also thinking about majoring in Philosophy and aiming towards a liberal arts education.</p>
<p>So 53+20=73, I don’t know but that may be too many credit hours considering some schools require that you earn at least a certain number of hours at their instituition for your final two years. Although your SAT score is slightly low, your G.P.A. is quite good. I’m not quite certain if you are heading into the medical field or engineering field but look into Georgia Tech the have a really good pre-medical and engineering program. Acc. to their website: The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation’s premiere research universities. Ranked eighth among U.S. News & World Report’s top public universities, Georgia Tech’s 17,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation’s top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.</p>
<p>Yeah, but I doubt the colleges I am applying to are going to accept all my credits and I am probably going to retake some classes which were very weak at my school such as physics. I am definitely set on going to medical school but I am not sure by what route, but that is the priority a school with a high number of students admitted to medical school. Then I think about majoring in Biomedical Engineering , Chemistry , or Philosophy depending ultimately where I get accepted. Thanks for your input.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about the credits - they’ll still look at your application, but once you get 80+ that may make them hesitant and 90+ will make you ineligible at most schools. If anything, just realize that they’ll accept 60 credits max.</p>
<p>Congrats on the great GPA at SIT. Chances:</p>
<p>NYU - match (30% acceptance rate)
Macalester - high match (25%)
Swat - high match (25%)
UPenn - low reach (12%)
Columbia - reach (10%)
JHU - low reach (15%)</p>
<p>I know UPenn, Columbia, and Swat will still require and use your test scores - which are low for those schools. Good luck.</p>
<p>And just FYI, I too looked into all of those schools. Columbia ultimately disinterested me because it is not very accomodating of its transfers, and Macalester didn’t seem to have much interest in transfer students either.</p>
<p>From a fellow Hispanic Pre-Med, be aware of Swarthmore and John Hopkins. They are both known for grade deflation which will decrease your chances to gaining a Medical school acceptance. JHU does have it’s benefits though, but I would avoid Swarthmore unless you want to risk your gpa.</p>
<p>I live close to NY and that is one reason why I want to go to Columbia and as for Macalester it has good placement for medical school. Macalester also has high financial aid assistance and good liberal arts department and not that hard to get into. Thanks for the input, too, its good to see my possibilities with concrete statistics.</p>
<p>Unless it’s changed, Hopkins does not require SAT scores for transfer. I think that is an option you should consider, as the scores are not your strong suit.</p>
<p>I don’t know how easy it is to transfer into BME there, though. It is their primary “impacted” major (they don’t use that term, but it’s the one that you must apply directly to and it’s more difficult for students in other majors at Hopkins to change to it). So research that before you specify what major you want there.</p>
<p>Yes, it is the most difficult and limited major to get into the BME but it is the best program at JHU. However, I also thinking about doing a philosophy major or chemistry major just in case they do not accept me to the BME but grant me admission. One big reason why I am looking at JHU is because it does not require SAT. Any other schools?</p>