What's considered "academic excellence"?

mom2collegekids
Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:40:36 +0000

You’re fine.

Off topic, but I wanted to address a previous concern of yours:

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I really want to dedicate my career to expanding my medical knowledge and helping others because I have a passion for the field, but my family is pressuring me to go to dental school instead. Their logic for this is that dentistry is easier and has more flexible hours & that I'm apparently incapable of the time and effort medical school takes up

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Do you realize that as an incoming frosh, it won’t make much/any difference? You can be “pre-dental,” and still take the premed prereqs. There isn’t a major that is “premed,” so your parents won’t complain if while you’re doing “predental”, you’re also doing “premed”. Then, by the time you’re a junior, you’ll be able to plead your case based on your college performance…rather than your HS performance which they’re judging you by now.