<p>Transferred into Stanford this fall with a c3.99/s3.98 – did 1st yr at a CC (33 credits), 2nd at a big state school (39 credits), took all my sciences 2nd year at the big state school and pulled the 3.98 science knocking out the premed requirements, summer o-chem was a beast.</p>
<p>Strangely the upper level classes I’m taking here aren’t so bad (social science major)… tons of reading but don’t see my GPA being lower than a 3.9 and likely a 4.0. I’m applying mid spring next year so will only have 2 quarters of work here…next semester is lining up similarly cush grade wise according to my upper level friends. Am in a Bio now that’s cross listed with the medical school (have a high A, gotta love med school grading) and am taking an advanced Bio class winter quarter where grades avg. to an A-…I think I can be average at a minimum.</p>
<p>I know there’s a perception that people coming from top end schools get a boost in adcom’s eyes, particularly the upper echelon med schools, I’m wondering how I fit in with all of this? Am I also privilege to this bump? Trying to figure out my prospects and am coming from an atypical situation with my credits coming from every tier school. Am I going to look like a 3.9+ Stanford student in adcom eyes (would be amazing!) or do I get an asterisk on my file?</p>
<p>They are going to easily see you have the bulk of your credits from another institution so it doesn’t take much to know that you didn’t go to Stanford for 4 years and maintain a 3.9 GPA there. If you do well at Stanford will that have any functional impact on your application? Probably not and you will still be someone who did well at Stanford for 1 year (surprised Stanford is letting you apply summer after junior year to be honest).</p>
<p>agree should be clear I’ve spent equal time at 3 separate institutions…but feel good about maintaining the same marks throughout assuming the last 3 weeks play out as planned.</p>
<p>Why the surprise that Stanford is allowing me to apply though? I figure 3 years of grades maintaining a 3.95+ makes a decent case…not sure why I’d want to do a gap year?</p>
<p>Why you were hopping schools? And why you took Orgo in a summer?</p>
<p>@MiamiDAP - kept getting 4.0’s so kept increasing school rigor…also am in the military reserves and my home state was/is having issues w/scholarship funding…figured why not apply to top end privates since they’re so generous with finaid. That part has been great…getting paid to go to school here rather than taking out loans. </p>
<p>Did summer orgo b/c it’s not major related, was last of the pre-rec’s, and I want to graduate in 4 yrs (am a non-trad, not getting any younger). Scored in the 100th and 98th percentiles on the ACS finals for chem & o-chem respectively, which will be in one of my rec letters.</p>
<p>I guess you are not in Bio 41 which I hear had a tough midterm recently!</p>
<p>You have not finished your first quarter yet and the grades are backloaded. So I won’t count my chickens before they are hatched.</p>
<p>When are you taking your MCAT?</p>
<p>I’m not saying your stats aren’t good enough. I’m just surprised because Stanford is going to have to write you a committee letter after “knowing” you for less than a year.</p>
<p>IWBB - Stanford does not control student apps and they have no committee letters.</p>
<p>^gotcha. Just (wrongly) assumed all the top schools did committee letters.</p>