Im hurt, however it seems to be that everyone else also agrees with me. I am just a little more blunt then others. I prefer not to BS around the truth..You have a good application set up as long as you can get a decent amount of clinical exposure via hospital volunteer, free health clinic or whatever and as long as you do well on your MCAT.
I really dont understand why you took offense to what I said. You may have not asked "will I get in anywhere?" You did however ask what schools are you rreach, which ones are middle range, and which ones are safeties. Pretty similar if you ask me
Also...I think you are the one who thinks a little too highly of himself :: "I'm pretty confident that everything else is top of the line."
See though, that is all I was asking for. A little bit of advice. This has nothing to do with how "Blunt" you may see yourself as being, this has everything to do with your seemingly automatic approach to answering a non-question. Anyone can read my first post and clearly see that the tone of the post was one more of advice, and as such, your latest post (minus the digs) would have been the better answer to my first post. A much better answer, one that doesn't involve any rudeness, or as you seem to like to call it, bluntness. It's not constructive at all to just come into a thread like this and say "You're not gonna get in." You may get kicks from saying it, but when people come onto this thread for advice, they are asking about something that will affect their livelyhoods for years to come.
So look, I don't disrespect you. I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt that you were trying to be entirely benign, and your advice is much appreciated, so let me rephrase my original post.
1) If I can get... say, 40 hours of job shadowing and 40 hours of clinical volunteering, for a total of 80 hours of clinical experience
2) If I can get my GPA up to a 3.8 (3.9 is probably out of reach at this point)
3) If I can get, say, a 35 on my MCAT
Then here is what I am looking at:
I'm about to be a junior, and here is what I have accomplished so far
-3.8 GPA in honors Biomedical Engineering.
-3.9 BCMP
-Freshman engineer of the year at my university
-Published a paper in a low impact journal as a coauthor (it was a journal about engineering education, for ASEE)
-Was secretary of the largest science club on campus
-Worked for a short time as a recruiter for my university
-Gave 5 presentations to donors, teachers, faculty, etc. about our engineering program
-Worked 2 years doing engineering tutoring, advising, drafting, and computer aided design
-Taken up Photography as a hobby
-Worked for 3 months helping my professors develop a new freshman engineering curriculum
-Gonna deffinitely have excelent letters of rec.
- Researching bone growth (lab/research experience)
- Supplemental instructor for math
- 35 on the MCAT
- 40 hours of job shadowing
- 40 hours of of clinical volunteering ( probably candystriping, not much in the area)
These are my percieved negatives:
- pretty weak in math... Never got anything but Bs in 5 math courses a row
- 2 Ws so far
- lack of job shadowing
- B in orgo 1
- sightly weaker in social sciences *Bs here and there
So if I can get these stats, what am I looking at in terms of reach/middle/safety?