<p>is the feinberg school competitive with the likes of ivies and such? and if i transfer to another grad school, how good is the pre-med program at northwestern and its rates of acceptances? thanks for any help!</p>
<p>People usually don't do undergrad and grad school at the same university. It's not like "transferring." Also, most of the most competitive med schools aren't Ivy League universities.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate to med school is over 80%.</p>
<p>HPME is amazing, just super hard to get into. But if you're into med you should look into it...</p>
<p>this might be a stupid question, but what's HPME?</p>
<p>I think it stands for Honors Program in Med Ed, but I'm not sure. Anyway, you apply separately for it, and it's very selective... if you get in, you do 3 years of undergrad med at NU. All you have to do is maintain a certain GPA in your science classes and a certain overall GPA. As long as you do this, you are automatically "accepted" into NU's grad medical school. So it is like a 7-year program at NU that guarantees you a spot in a great med school.</p>
<p>Right. Let me clarify two things though: most often, you hear people say Feinberg is a top-twenty med school. It's supposed to be very good. </p>
<p>HPME is indeed what you said; only "undergrad med" is a little vague. You can do any NU major whose reqs you can fullfil in 3 years. Well, yeah, sure you need to have taken all bio and chem required by Feinberg by the end of your 3rd year.</p>
<p>Lastly, JackJackson, this figure is ridiculous. For the worst (if you can even use this word of course) medical schools, 80% might be the norm. </p>
<p>Here's two real facts:</p>
<p>At the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, for example, only 2% of the total number of applicants matriculated (104 out of 5,708); at Tufts University, 2% (169 out of 8,368).</p>
<p>Go figure.</p>
<p>oh thanx dfleish that's really cool. do you know what the requirements are for applying and exactly how selective it is? another question: can i complete the program but go somewhere else? i'm thinking of going to duke for grad but i'm not sure since lorddragon said nu is good enough.</p>
<p>lorddragon04, the overall acceptance rate into med school in general is below 50%. Above 80% is a very good acceptance rate.</p>
<p>jackjackson and lorddragon are talking about two different things.</p>
<p>jackson is talking about placement into med school (meaning the % of students who get into at least one med school over students who applied to med school). This number is important in determining how successful students from a specific university are in getting into med school (any med school, regardless of how good/bad the med school is).</p>
<p>lorddragon is referring to the percentage of people who can attend a specific med school over the total applicants. The numbers for U of C (104 out of 5,708) indicate that there are 5708 applicants fighting for only 104 spots. This shows how difficult it is to get into a top-notch med school.</p>
<p>dittogal, I don't know specifics, but I'm pretty sure you have to apply to even be able to apply. Then they narrow it down and there's a rigid interview process... maybe 100 kids or less are admitted? It's very, very harsh. I can ask my roommate about it later, he's in it. </p>
<p>Also, I am fairly sure it's a strictly NU program- you are committing your 7 years to NU and nothing else, as far as I know.</p>
<p>i heard this somewhere but is it true that undergrad doesn't matter and I could go to any top 50 school and still be good and not even do pre-med? hah this makes my choice a bit easier. dfleish thanks for asking and thanks to everyone else for helping! you guys are just dandy lol. </p>
<p>one more question (then i'm finished, i promise haha)</p>
<p>for grad school i'm thinking stanford, duke, washington u and my personal favorite, yale. which one of these schools as an undergrad seems best?</p>
<p>-Notre Dame
-Northwestern
-Amherst
-UCal Berkeley
-U of Virginia
- Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help guys!</p>
<p>lorddragon, look at the poster's question. Go figure.</p>
<p>dittogal, I would pick Berkeley or UVa. Of course, I kind of like the big public school feel and sports etc. Notre Dame would probably fit this mold, but I'm not really interested in attending a religious school (but I'm Catholic so it wouldn't be a huge deal).</p>
<p>thanks guys! yea my two choices out of those are UVa and Notre Dame but I was also wondering which schools had the best admission rates onto the grad schools that I listed above. Is there a website where you could get this rates? anyone know?</p>