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College help please!!?
I am really really worried. I want to get into University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and I'm scared I won't get in.
Average ACT is 21 and average gpa is like a 4.3
I know it's not very impressive but their medical program is very good.
I had straight a's freshman year with taking 3 honors classes, with a year above of regular math and a year above regular Spanish (geometry as a freshman while freshman usually take algebra 1, Spanish 2 while freshman usually take)
I got straight a's freshman year
and now as a junior I have taken 4 ap classes with regular math (now in precalc while juniors usually take trig/alg 2)
I did not get straight a's, I was used to being an a and b student but now with the hard classes I'm taking and the sports I do, I play a sport throughout the whole year sometimes even two (travel and school) I have gotten straight b's and 1 c.
I heard colleges look at unweighted, but my weighted freshman year was like a 5.4 out of 6 and soph it was a 5 out of 6 and now it's like a 4.7
I am so disappointed in myself. I feel like colleges won't take me anymore.
our weighted gpa is
6- a in ap/ honors
5- b in ap/ honors, a in regular
4- c in ap/honors, b in regular
3- d in ap/honors, c in regular
un weighted is
5- a
4- b
3- c
2- d
1- a
which gpa does colleges look at? is there still hope for me. I meet the act requirements me and I do a lot of extra curriculars.
2 Answers
- MamawidsomLv 75 years ago
I'm going to be very blunt. If the very best you can do on the ACT is a 21, there is virtually no chance you will get into medical school, regardless of the undergraduate university you attend.
Start by figuring out how to calculate your GPA on a 0-4 scale, not a 0-5 or 0-6 scale. This is the GPA all universities need to see, as it allows for an "apples-to-apples" snapshot comparison with other applicants. UI-Chicago is looking for a B to B+ average and, at least, a 23 on the ACT. If you aren't at the level academically, your chances will be lower. Good news for you, this university admits over 60% of all applicants, so if your "numbers" are just slightly below, you still have a good opportunity of being accepted. What you need to realize is that once at a univeristy, you are going to need to up your game significantly.
- eriLv 75 years ago
You don't apply to medical school until AFTER college, and nothing you do before college counts for medical school. You do NOT need to attend a college that also has a medical school for undergrad - you won't be taking classes there, and attending UIC does NOT help you get into their medical school after college. You'd apply like everyone else.
Anyone can take the premed classes, and you can take them at any 4-year college or university. They all offer them. Colleges ask for unweighted GPA because every high school has their own weighting system. It doesn't make sense to compare students from different high schools with weighted GPA because a 3.8 at one school is the same as a 5.2 at another.
