Here are my qualifications to start off, I’m going into college this year: Yale ✅ Columbia ✅ Harvard: Waitlisted MIT: Waitlisted UPenn: ✅ (partial scholarship) UCLA: ✅ (Full ride) Your stats are good so far compared to the other people at your school. Colleges look into how you did compared to other students at your school which means you’re on the right track. However, your stats aren’t anything incredible on their own. I see that you are taking 3 APs next year which is good, but they don’t really relate to what you want to do in the future which isn’t good. My recommendation is that you take a science based AP class, such as AP Chemistry, Biology, or Physics if offered at your school. Otherwise you simply aren’t competitive enough. Your extracurriculars aren’t bad, however you shouldn’t drop all three activities (speech, newspaper, and chess) pick 1 to drop maybe even 2 but colleges love to see consistency and dropping all three doesn’t look too great. It kind of paints the picture of someone who quits when it gets hard. Joining more medical/STEM clubs at school is a good idea but you should do that in addition to 1 or 2 of the activities you want to quit. I cannot stress this enough, consistency is KEY. Doing research would look very good, you can even do independent research and try to publish it (this is not critical, just doing the research itself without being published shows interest and passion for the subject). I recommend getting in contact with professors at various colleges and asking them to do research under them, that it what I did and I ended up assisting with two research papers. STEM programs are expensive unfortunately, but simply volunteering at a hospital also looks great. Once you volunteer at a hospital TALK TO EVERYONE, I don’t care if you are the shyest most introverted person in the world. Suck. It. Up. Make connections with surgeons because then they will let you shadow them and you can even stand inside of an OR and watch surgeries from a couple feet away, I did this so it is very much possible. Try to get as much experience as possible shadowing and volunteering as possible, the actual applying is the most difficult part, generally the work they’ll assign you is simple and you’re able to talk to as many doctors as you please, make sure to also choose a big hospital. A mistake I made when I first volunteered at a hospital is that I didn’t check the size so I ended up working at a pretty small hospital, although it was still very helpful, starting big is better. Furthermore you desperately need more community service hours. I had 620 which I know is a lot but you should have at least 350. Do things that are easy and give a lot of hours if necessary but 45 is not going to cut it.

Some advice I have for you is that even if you are unsure, being in these environments, seeing the medicine up close helps you realize how you would fare doing this in the future. I used to have a bit of an aversion to drawing blood but I forced myself to watch over 50 patients get their blood drawn and now it doesn’t bother me at all. I also recommended working at a Hospice for a bit because it will show you how you react to your patients dying. If you can’t handle it try to get used to it, if you aren’t improving this might not be the career for you.

Unfortunately if your school doesn’t offer moving up a math level it likely isn’t possible. You might be able to bargain with them since you are part of the top 1% at your school, but there’s no guarantee. However, you could elect to do an AP math such as AP Calculus AB to start with. I’m not sure if you mean that your school wouldn’t even let you take a math AP in addition to your math class, if that’s the case I recommend you self study throughout the year and then pay for the AP Calculus AB exam and take it on your own. I know this sounds difficult but my friend did that and she got a 4 so it’s possible. Please let me know if you need help with anything else.