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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PreMed or Bio or Chem isn’t easy anywhere and it isn’t low pressure anywhere. Both Pitt and VCU allow you to start Med school there early.

Add CWRU to those listed above. [/quote]

Realize you need to apply directly to VCU and Pitt’s 7 MD or early admit MD programs, and they are super competitive.   My kid is at TJ, which sends kids into direct admit MD programs, including Pitt and VCU, every year and it is much, much, much harder than getting into the underlying school.

Case is also going to be a real reach school with those stats— especially is premed or science, because Case looks at prospective major.  Case has become a hot commodity lately, because they give generous merit aid to donut home kids.

OP— your kid doesn’t have the stats of UNC-CH OOS, but East Carolina University has excellent pre-med as well.  I’m from NC. It’s definitely the NC State School you want to target, if you look South instead of North.

Otherwise, agree Pitt and VCU  are good targets with the stats. In Ohio, Wooster would be a good match. Excellent grad school admissions.

And OP— I wouldn’t worry about your kid being too smart. I’m sure he is smart.  But, I think you are discounting how tough the college admissions landscape is. You really want to pull up Naviance and take a look.  For reference, I am looking at Case as a target, and VCU and Pitt as safeties for my TJ kid, w/ a 1520 SAT, 800s on the Math and Physics subject test and 4.1W.   There are lots of very bright kids attending these schools.

Also, if your kid is a late bloomer Op, have you considered a gap year to give him the extra time to mature and work on executive functioning before starting college?  He can fudge with “upward trend” for college admissions, but med school admission is unforgiving. He’ll want to be able to start off on the right foot.

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