u/Fun_Midnight_6511

I’m an incoming freshman and I’m trying to figure out a potential schedule before SOAR (my friend recommended it as it’ll be easier to get the classes I want).

For context, I’m majoring in chemistry and I have full AP Credit for chem, bio, calculus bc, physics 1, human geo, us history, seminar, French and lang. I’m interested in getting a certificate in French as well, and I want to build up a good foundation since I’m a bit rusty.

So far I’m definitely taking chem 109 honors and probably an art class (lol), but I’m not sure what else to look into. I will have a busy schedule as I’ll be working at UW hospital and hopefully I’ll be doing URS as well. So I want an easier schedule. Does anyone have any advice? I’m also in the honors program and want smaller classes if it’s possible.

Thanks for any advice!

Under the right conditions, do you think that everyone can develop an ED? I don’t understand how anyone could not have thoughts about doing this, unless they were naturally underweight maybe? Or like, when someone wants to lose weight, I don’t know how you could consider losing it the “right” way through small caloric deficits instead of just putting all your eggs in one basket to get rid of it as fast as possible. I think sometimes I have an all or nothing mindset. I’ll either be “normal” one day and just make it a cheat day, or I’ll eat disordered for the whole day. Once a day is ruined to the point of no return (my family makes me eat something high cal) I kind of just give up. But at the same time I don’t have fear foods. If I knew a plate of spaghetti was a certain amount of cals, I could 100% eat it as long as it was under my budget for the day. I’m “afraid” of anything that goes over my budget, but I could eat a plate of lasagna if I had saved for it. I guess I became a bit more relaxed once I hit BMI >!14.5!< But I feel like most anorexics don’t think that way. So I feel like I’m not a “normal” anorexic, even though I look that way stereotypically. Because in my mind, having disordered thinking just feels natural. It seems like something that anyone who is desperate enough would engage in. At the same time, I feel like it *has* to have something to do with the brain, where only some people are predisposed to developing X ED. Because I’ve never felt the urge to binge, or felt uncontrollable like that. It’s more like I plan a cheat day in advance, but I never eat until I physically can’t or anything. Anyone else feel this way?

I’m an incoming first year undergrad and for my senior year of hs I worked as an inpatient pharmacy tech through a youth apprenticeship program. I only have around 600 hrs but it was pretty easy and I liked the pay (though boring since it was a very small hospital). Is it a beige/red flag to continue working as a pharm tech at my university hospital? What I really want is to become an EMT, but I’m paying for my own college and the program is like $1600 so I need to save up for it anyway. Ik it won’t count as clinical experience but I feel like it’s better than a typical uni job (?). I’m also really interested in anesthesiology and I enjoy pharmacology but Im wondering if med schools will wonder why I didn’t just become a pharmacist. I would probably only do this job for my first year and then switch to EMT or MA afterwards. Thanks for any advice or info about this 🙏

My college results:

- 3.98uw/4.63w GPA

- 36 ACT

- Top 5% of class

- 10 APs

ECs: paid med internship, 2 research programs/internships, 2 part time jobs (one at inpatient hospital), hospital volunteer, competitive figure skater, board member of figure skating NPO, pit/honors orchestra, service chair of orchestra, president of 2 science clubs, science bowl/USABO comps (no crazy awards)

Rejected: Harvard, Brown, Yale, UPenn, Duke, UChicago, Stanford

Waitlisted: JHU, UIUC (later accepted)

Accepted: Purdue, Colgate, UW-Seattle, UW-Madison, UMN

In hindsight I should’ve applied to more reaches and I shouldn’t have rushed some of my essays. I always knew it was a reach to get into a crazy school and after getting my package from Colgate (notoriously generous with financial aid) I wouldn’t have been able to pay for it. Didn’t really care about most of the reaches I applied to anyway. I got merit scholarships and honors/research programs at all of my accepted schools besides UIUC and Purdue. Full ride scholarship at UW-Madison (or close to it, with private scholarships). I’m premed so I probably won’t transfer. Currently a chemistry major but UW-Madison also has a great nuclear engineering program, so I might consider that as a backup if I don’t go into medicine. I want to be an anesthesiologist and live in/near Chicago long term so going to a cheap school in the Midwest should be helpful lol. Getting heavily judged by the prestige whores at my school who are itching to know where I got in. My friends are nice and don’t care, they’re just excited to go to college with me. To future applicants: don’t stress too much and stop comparing yourself. It doesn’t matter, you’ll be fine.

Hi, I’m an incoming undergrad freshman and I’m planning on studying chemistry and French on a premed track at UW Madison (I’m also doing the L&S honors program if that matters). I mainly chose Madison bc it’s in state and practically free since they gave me a lot of merit aid. I did pretty good in hs and chose Madison over schools like northwestern and washu, but now I’m worried that I won’t be able to go to a top med school bc Madison’s not super prestigious. I know that probably sounds really stupid but a lot of people have told me that I made the wrong choice.

My main academic goal is to go to a med school in Chicago (uchi/nu). Does anyone have experience with applying to top med schools from state schools, or just medical school advice in general for freshman year (I’d obv still be super happy with going to UW or MCW)? People have told me that you have pretty much no chance at top med schools if you don’t go t20 for undergrad :/ I appreciate any and all advice about how to do well at Madison!!

Hi, I recently finished college app season this year and I chose UW-Madison over some more prestigious schools because they gave me a lot of merit aid. Because of the scholarships I got from Madison and other private ones, I am able to reasonably pay for my entire undergrad on my own. So I basically made a deal with my parents where I would work all four years and pay for my undergrad alone, and they would pay for as much of my graduate school as they can, which will most likely be 120k+. They’re willing to do this bc they’re paying for my siblings’ undergrad education in full at oos public schools.

I’m dead set on going to medical school after working at a hospital for a couple years, doing a summer long internship at a nearby med school (+shadowing), and completing 2 research internships/assistantships with a lab affiliated with said med school. While my main goal is to become an anesthesiologist, I really want to be able to attend a top MD school (prestige, opportunities in academia, more likely to match at a good residency, etc). I got into a couple T20s this year but chose not to go bc I thought it’d be a burden on my family. My family never really told me about finances until very recently, and one parent acted like money doesn’t matter, while the other acted like it’s the most important thing that matters. Long story short, I now know that they would’ve been able to make it work. It doesn’t matter all that much bc the schools I got into weren’t ones that I was super into anyway. Now I’m wondering if I should try to transfer out of Madison so that I can attend a top school with better fit and have a higher chance of getting into a top MD school. Madison was always my absolute last choice, and I regret not EDing to my first choice now that I know I could’ve afforded it (I wouldn’t get support for my grad school though). I want to go to UChicago or another med school in Chicago and live in the area long term. Is it really worth it to prepare to transfer or should I just stick with Madison? So many of my peers have been judging me for my college decision choice and I just wish I knew if it’s worth it to do this all over again. I’ve been told that undergrad prestige matters a lot for top med schools and if I’m going to try transferring I need to be prepared. Either way I’m still going into Madison with an open mind, but if I knew that going there wouldn’t meaningfully limit an opportunity to attend a good MD school, it’d be really helpful. Thanks for any help.

Hi, I recently finished college app season this year and I chose UW-Madison over some more prestigious schools because they gave me a lot of merit aid. Because of the scholarships I got from Madison and other private ones, I am able to reasonably pay for my entire undergrad on my own. So I basically made a deal with my parents where I would work all four years and pay for my undergrad alone, and they would pay for as much of my graduate school as they can, which will most likely be 120k+. They’re willing to do this bc they’re paying for my siblings’ undergrad education in full at oos public schools.

I’m dead set on going to medical school after working at a hospital for a couple years, doing a summer long internship at a nearby med school (+shadowing), and completing 2 research internships/assistantships with a lab affiliated with said med school. While my main goal is to become an anesthesiologist, I really want to be able to attend a top MD school (prestige, opportunities in academia, more likely to match at a good residency, etc). I got into a couple T20s this year but chose not to go bc I thought it’d be a burden on my family. My family never really told me about finances until very recently, and one parent acted like money doesn’t matter, while the other acted like it’s the most important thing that matters. Long story short, I now know that they would’ve been able to make it work. It doesn’t matter all that much bc the schools I got into weren’t ones that I was super into anyway. Now I’m wondering if I should try to transfer out of Madison so that I can attend a top school with better fit and have a higher chance of getting into a top MD school. Madison was always my absolute last choice, and I regret not EDing to my first choice now that I know I could’ve afforded it (I wouldn’t get support for my grad school though). I want to go to UChicago or another med school in Chicago and live in the area long term. Is it really worth it to prepare to transfer or should I just stick with Madison? So many of my peers have been judging me for my college decision choice and I just wish I knew if it’s worth it to do this all over again. I’ve been told that undergrad prestige matters a lot for top med schools and if I’m going to try transferring I need to be prepared. Either way I’m still going into Madison with an open mind, but if I knew that going there wouldn’t meaningfully limit an opportunity to attend a good MD school, it’d be really helpful. Thanks for any help.