How'd YOU do in High School?

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I didn't too well during high school. My freshman and sophomore years were horrible. My junior and senior years were much better however. During the first half of my high school education, over half of my grades were D's and F's 😳 I was going through a bad phase, but that's not to say that it wasn't my fault. During my junior and senior years, I never got anything lower than a B. About 70% of my latter half high school grades were A's. Anyways, how'd you guys do? I'm under the impression that everyone who wants to go to medical school was always an honor roll type student. I want to see how accurate that assumption really is.
 
I think you'll get a lot of C/B students, actually.

I was a C student in nearly everything other than Math, Science, and Woodshop.
 
I graduated HS with a >3.9 GPA and broke 30 on the ACT. Some are late bloomers, some get the hang of it early on. There are always the people who are naturally really smart, but are lazy; and there are the people who aren't as naturally smart but work really, really hard--and then there are all sorts of in between.

If you are able to get into college, you more or less start with a clean slate when it comes to medical school admissions. Those who are smart but lazy may be in for a rude awakening, but as long as you figure out how to do well in college, what you did in high school doesn't matter one bit!
 
I didn't too well during high school. My freshman and sophomore years were horrible. My junior and senior years were much better however. During the first half of my high school education, over half of my grades were D's and F's 😳 I was going through a bad phase, but that's not to say that it wasn't my fault. During my junior and senior years, I never got anything lower than a B. About 70% of my latter half high school grades were A's. Anyways, how'd you guys do? I'm under the impression that everyone who wants to go to medical school was always an honor roll type student. I want to see how accurate that assumption really is.

I forgot how I did in high school. 😳
 
I was solidly mediocre.

Pretty sure I got into my school of choice based on connections and SAT. I think there are likely plenty of folks in medical school who didn't get serious until sometime in college.
 
4.0 GPA unweighted and 33 ACT, taken cold. GPA was a function of going to a small, rural HS with super easy classes. ACT was probably a bit of luck. Ironically enough, my worst section was science 😳
 
4.0 GPA unweighted and 33 ACT, taken cold. GPA was a function of going to a small, rural HS with super easy classes. ACT was probably a bit of luck. Ironically enough, my worst section was science 😳

Nerd. +pissed+
 
I graduated HS with a >3.9 GPA and broke 30 on the ACT. Some are late bloomers, some get the hang of it early on. There are always the people who are naturally really smart, but are lazy; and there are the people who aren't as naturally smart but work really, really hard--and then there are all sorts of in between.

If you are able to get into college, you more or less start with a clean slate when it comes to medical school admissions. Those who are smart but lazy may be in for a rude awakening, but as long as you figure out how to do well in college, what you did in high school doesn't matter one bit!

This is how I'd describe myself. I was always a decent student as a child. When middle school started, I started caring about work less and less. Procrastination became a habit. As a child you always say, "I have plenty of time to decide what I want to be when I'll be older". As you keep screwing around through middle school and high school, you find yourself at that time of your life where making that decision has arrived. When you look back on your grades and how bad you did, you get incredibly discouraged. Luckily for me, I found out that high school grades don't matter at all if you don't plan on going straight to a university. I felt like I got a second chance and I'm grateful for it.
 
I was a solid B+ student. Back then, it was good enough to get into an engineering program at UMass-Amherst. Even without an essay and only one letter from my AP art history teacher. And an 1100 on the SAT (old scale). From what I gather, it's gotten quite a bit tougher to get into UMass, but I'm not sure if they actually raised standards or if there's just rampant grade inflation going on now.
 
Should I add in 11 athletic letters to mitigate my nerdiness?

(again the function of a small HS)

😱😱😱😱 Are you even human? The only thing I remember about high school was playing Halo and Mario Kart with my history teacher.
 
Some are late bloomers, some get the hang of it early on. There are always the people who are naturally really smart, but are lazy; and there are the people who aren't as naturally smart but work really, really hard--and then there are all sorts of in between.

If you are able to get into college, you more or less start with a clean slate when it comes to medical school admissions. Those who are smart but lazy may be in for a rude awakening, but as long as you figure out how to do well in college, what you did in high school doesn't matter one bit!

High-school GPA ~ 2.1, 4 year college GPA >3.5 . DEF LAZY those 4 years of HS 😛
 
3.4 GPA, 27ACT, 1800 SAT? I thought I was really good at math and science so I took advanced classes that I fell quickly behind in. I didn't really do much other than cross country, long distance track, and drink a lot. But by the time I got to college I was ready to excel and got involved with some great people doing some great things!
 
😱😱😱😱 Are you even human? The only thing I remember about high school was playing Halo and Mario Kart with my history teacher.

Sounds like a good HS experience 👍 And going to a small HS sucks for preparing for college, but it does make it easy to build a pseudo-impressive CV
 
3.4 GPA, 27ACT, 1800 SAT? I thought I was really good at math and science so I took advanced classes that I fell quickly behind in. I didn't really do much other than cross country, long distance track, and drink a lot. But by the time I got to college I was ready to excel and got involved with some great people doing some great things!

Nice bluff. 😛

Sounds like a good HS experience 👍 And going to a small HS sucks for preparing for college, but it does make it easy to build a pseudo-impressive CV

False. Freshman year in college compensates the difficulty. Considering you aced the ACT and your HS grades, you undoubtedly entered college with the left foot first.
 
I don't think that I ever studied for a test in HS.

Reason: For most of my classes I learned 98% of the material by sitting in the class. For the 2% that I didn't know, I just visited the teachers after school.

One problem though: For most of my HS years I was working on an album called "Tha Carter III" (it's pretty unknown) and I was addicted to lean. However, coupled with my grades, I was set with some great topics when admissions interviewing season rolled around.
 
I was your typical honor roll kid. 4.5 weighted GPA, 3.99 unweighted GPA, 2200+ SAT and 32 ACT (taken cold). It was pretty boring.

College, on the other hand.. :naughty:
 
False. Freshman year in college compensates the difficulty. Considering you aced the ACT and your HS grades, you undoubtedly entered college with the left foot first.

Eh, okay, I guess I'll half agree haha. Freshman year WAS rough, but I managed to escape only minimally scathed.
 
5.36 weighted on a 5.00 (i.e. straight As). Valedictorian for class of ~250. 36 ACT. Significantly worse SAT (1410 taken back when it was still out of 1600). Varsity letter in 2 sports, All-American in another non-school sport. Pretty much every academic award our school had and in almost every club in school.

That being said, undergrad was still a big wake up call.
 
Eh, okay, I guess I'll half agree haha. Freshman year WAS rough, but I managed to escape only minimally scathed.

Arrogant much? 😛:naughty:

5.36 weighted on a 5.00 (i.e. straight As). Valedictorian for class of ~250. 36 ACT. Significantly worse SAT (1410 taken back when it was still out of 1600). Varsity letter in 2 sports, All-American in another non-school sport. Pretty much every academic award our school had and in almost every club in school.

That being said, undergrad was still a big wake up call.

Wow... You just completely dwarfed me right there... Really impressive accomplishments. I guess I was a lazy guy at high school, because I honestly didn't even care (except flirting with hot girls and playing video games). I knew I'd get into college, so I took it easy.
 
Good enough for a top school
 
High school was super lame.

My gpa was crap (3.89), but i ended up being ranked 10 out of 500 students because grades at my high school were low. On the ACT, I scored a 34. Old scale SAT 1440.

For ECs: Debate team captain (competed nationally and on the state level), Physics Research for 3 years (got some awards and a small pub), Trumpet player, Played Football for 2 years before an injury, and officer in the generic clubs (English Honor Society, Science Honor Society).
 
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I didn't too well during high school. My freshman and sophomore years were horrible. My junior and senior years were much better however. During the first half of my high school education, over half of my grades were D's and F's 😳 I was going through a bad phase, but that's not to say that it wasn't my fault. During my junior and senior years, I never got anything lower than a B. About 70% of my latter half high school grades were A's. Anyways, how'd you guys do? I'm under the impression that everyone who wants to go to medical school was always an honor roll type student. I want to see how accurate that assumption really is.

I think as a freshman: I had a 3.66 gpa and it pretty much went down every year after. Had mostly As first two years of high school. Last two years were mostly Bs with I think one C+ in calculus. Wasn't cause I was lazy, I just got distracted by a few other things in life. Pretty much settled for Bs lol by my senior year. Senioritis kicked in pretty bad for my first semester senior year lol. I still had a 3. something GPA though. Good times!
 
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I did horrible in high school. I went to class once in a while and spent my time goofing off.
 
I did much better in high school than in college. 4.4 GPA and valedictorian with a bunch of AP credits and letters in academics and sports. I went to high school in what I now recognize a very varied income and probably underserved community.
 
I think I focused more on extracurriculars, 3 varsity sports and the usual leadership stuff. High school (most of the classes anyway) were relatively boring/easy so ~3.8 unweighted. Now I have a whole bunch of awards that now just sit in a box gathering dust. I was told a lot that even if you were a great student, to expect to get a lot of C's in college, but it wasn't like that at all for me. I had good studying habits and I genuinely like college and my classes, so it was really just a MUCH MUCH better version of high school (but more stressful) 😀
 
A-/B Student. Some C's in classes like spanish, pre-calc. I never did homework, studied for exams the period before. Participated in two varsity sports. Was very fortunate to get excepted to my state school for UG.

Then in college, I fell in love with the hands-off approach to learning. Graduated with a 4.0 and became a really efficient self-learned. Late bloomer I suppose. 🙄
 
Not a good student in HS. Put forth zero effort and did 95% of my homework in the class before. Kind of wish I would've tried but I got into a good school so don't really have any regrets.
 
How were your SAT scores? Do you think it has any say on how one will score on the MCAT?
 
How were your SAT scores? Do you think it has any say on how one will score on the MCAT?

Only to the extent that someone who was a good test taker in HS will probably still be a good test taker when the MCAT rolls around.

It's apples and oranges since the level of knowledge required vs. just reasoning ability is very different.
 
I was a pretty apathetic student not just in high school, but school in general. While I usually got mostly A's by just reading over my notes minutes before a test, I was never on the honor roll, ever (I always managed to get one B every year). In elementary school they tried to test me for the gifted program, but because that entailed more homework I intentionally threw the assessments. That's not me trying to make excuses either; the school knew damn well what I did and made me retake the assessments, so I threw them again but that time I actually put down some right answers for believability.

In high school I put more effort into figuring out which assignments I could ignore doing and still pass the class with a "C" than actually doing class work. However, starting in junior year I took my first AP class which was a very rude awakening to what actual academic rigor looked like, and on top of that I got in the habit of sleeping in all of my classes. I nearly failed every class junior year and barely managed to pull off C's in all my classes except physics (got a B). When I took the SAT in the summer I barely remembered any algebra, so I bombed it (550 math, 670 english, don't remember what that other section score was but I think my total was 1770 with a combined score of 6 out of 12 on the essays). The ACT went a little better (27 IIRC). Come senior year I actually started applying myself and managed to graduate with a 3.5, although my antipathy to work was still a running joke among the senior class.

When I got to college though I actually applied myself (for the most part) and ended up with a 3.8 and 39S, so if anyone was curious about how little predictive value your high school performance has for your college performance, there you go.
 
I was extremely lazy in high school. I only made good grades to piss off certain teachers that wanted to make an example out of me. I went to a high school in a very low income neighborhood that has almost been shut down multiple times due to low test scores. I ended up with a 3.4 unweighted (we didn't even have AP classes), and a 26 ACT (didn't study for it). Somehow I ended up getting a full-ride scholarship to my state university though, so I don't regret it much. I had to keep my grades up to keep my scholarship, so it was a strong motivator that turned things around for me.
 
Not a good student in HS. Put forth zero effort and did 95% of my homework in the class before. Kind of wish I would've tried but I got into a good school so don't really have any regrets.

:highfive: Same. :highfive:

I think I focused more on extracurriculars, 3 varsity sports and the usual leadership stuff. High school (most of the classes anyway) were relatively boring/easy so ~3.8 unweighted. Now I have a whole bunch of awards that now just sit in a box gathering dust. I was told a lot that even if you were a great student, to expect to get a lot of C's in college, but it wasn't like that at all for me. I had good studying habits and I genuinely like college and my classes, so it was really just a MUCH MUCH better version of high school (but more stressful) 😀

😱😱 Brb. Getting rid of urinated pants.

I was a pretty apathetic student not just in high school, but school in general. While I usually got mostly A's by just reading over my notes minutes before a test, I was never on the honor roll, ever (I always managed to get one B every year). In elementary school they tried to test me for the gifted program, but because that entailed more homework I intentionally threw the assessments. That's not me trying to make excuses either; the school knew damn well what I did and made me retake the assessments, so I threw them again but that time I actually put down some right answers for believability.

In high school I put more effort into figuring out which assignments I could ignore doing and still pass the class with a "C" than actually doing class work. However, starting in junior year I took my first AP class which was a very rude awakening to what actual academic rigor looked like, and on top of that I got in the habit of sleeping in all of my classes. I nearly failed every class junior year and barely managed to pull off C's in all my classes except physics (got a B). When I took the SAT in the summer I barely remembered any algebra, so I bombed it (550 math, 670 english, don't remember what that other section score was but I think my total was 1770 with a combined score of 6 out of 12 on the essays). The ACT went a little better (27 IIRC). Come senior year I actually started applying myself and managed to graduate with a 3.5, although my antipathy to work was still a running joke among the senior class.

When I got to college though I actually applied myself (for the most part) and ended up with a 3.8 and 39S, so if anyone was curious about how little predictive value your high school performance has for your college performance, there you go.

Very well said. I also agree that so called "gifted programs" were a total joke, and I also intentially BSed the answers in my school. It's actually fun. :laugh:
 
I graduated with a 2.5 and ~1100/2400 SAT. Playing that MMORPG game was probably the worst thing that ever happened to me. 😀
 
Graduated with a ~3.4, very strong downward trend. My last semester GPA 2.0 lol

I think my ACT was around a 30, but I cannot remember the number, I cared so little about that test. I just wanted it high enough to get into college. Never took the SAT.
 
I honestly hardly paid attention to my GPA in high school. As long as I made enough As and Bs to have free time to read books, all was well. I tended to make Bs in sciences (I think Physics was my A out of the three), did better in math, and could really excel in history/English. I might have taken to math more if there weren't a handful of people in my class who got it so naturally that they made the rest of us feel like dopes.

The fact that my science ACT was 24 while Reading and English were 30 and 34 respectively probably should have told me something, but it had been hammered into me that humanities were for l0s3rs, so it took me a couple of semesters to decide to switch.

I might have studied harder if I'd thought it was important, and I think it might have helped me in my freshman year of undergrad (in terms of study habits), but as it is I'm happy it worked out as it did. If I'd done better on the ACT, I might have gotten into Georgia Tech and started in a BME major, and I don't like to think where I'd be now if that had been the case. I'd have been miserable.
 
didn't do any real work. 3.2 GPA but knocked off 35 college credits with AP classes. I should have used that time to refine studying methods for undergrad but I didnt.
 
HS was easy. I got a 4.0 GPA and a 32 ACT, graduated first out of 300. Then in college became a mediocrity.🙁
 
HS: Valedictorian, all-state athlete, 5.5something GPA (weighted obviously), lots of awards and what not, not stellar SAT 1330 or 1300/1600 I believe, 1930/2400

None of it means anything now though so I guess it doesn't really matter. I also performed very well in college though, but I think that was just due to my personality and work ethic.

College: 3.98 GPA, varsity athlete, lots of awards etc., MCAT 32O (although my practice test average was about 35)
 
HS was easy. I got a 4.0 GPA and a 32 ACT, graduated first out of 300. Then in college became a mediocrity.🙁
Agreed. I think the "ruralness" of my HS and the lack of funding compared to other areas in the state didn't allow for everyone's true potential to be fully shown. Then I got to college where I was middle of the line. But medical school, oh man, what a rude awakening.
 
I rocked high school. We had a stupid 12 point GPA that doesn't translate well into a 4.0, but I basically had an A+ average. Unlike most high school stars though, I'm actually sort of dumb in real life, so I had to study a bunch to get that. Those skills transferred easily to undergrad, which is why unlike most "omg I was sooooo good in high school and I never had to study lol but why is college soooo hard omg I got a C in physics what do I doooooo" people, I thought undergrad was easy too.
 
High school graduated with 3.4, ACT: 35, SAT: 2340. Did all homework between/during classes, besides projects. Minimal studying, very lazy. Was not even in top 25 percent of class.

I now do all my work well in advance and study effectively.
 
3.45gpa and 25 on my ACT after taking it 4 times and using an ACT class.... All that and still only got into my UG's branch campus. High school doesn't reeeeaallly matter.
 
1.27 gpa in high school



Turned it around during college, ended up with a 4.0 physics/math/chemical engineering triple major.


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High school matters if you're trying to go to the Ivy League school SDN'ers love to quote as the ticket into med school. Or if you want to go to college for free. 😀
 
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