<p>So as the title suggests, I was an interviewee (in the top 100) for hpme, and I was waitlisted at the undergraduate school. Looking around the forums here, there seems to be a few others who were as well.</p>
<p>I mean I would just take it for what it is. I know it has been very competitive this year and people have simply beaten me out to the spots, I understand and I respect that. But I do find it somewhat strange that many of the HPME interviewees were waitlisted... And does this mean that this is a surefire rejection from the HPME program?</p>
<p>All thought or advice is welcome. Thank you very much in advance.</p>
<p>I do feel that getting an HPME interview is not always reflective of the strength of your app in regards to regular undergrad, especially at an undergrad like northwestern simply because the health activities this program requires are not impressive, or selective–that’s probably a better word. For example, you would need a crap load of shadowing, volunteering, medical activities. These activities are by nature not selective to obtain, thus decreasing their value in the admissions game. However, to a direct med program, they look highly attractive because they show a genuine interest in your medical aspirations. So, don’t think always that you are a sure in for NW just b/c you got an interview. The interview indicates that you have high scores and that you have activities medically related, not necessarily selective activities.</p>
<p>However, I think that there’s also a possibility of faulty coordination b/t the med school and the undergrad. OR that, unfortunately, you did not make it from the interview and they made an “ok” to the release of your undergrad decision. The former has been reported as a real cause in the past.</p>
<p>Yes, I feel you are correct meursalt, you make sense.</p>
<p>But I am wondering now is if this means an automatic rejection from HPME. I mean, from the looks of it, it looks like it is, but it also seems like an abnormal amount of HPME interviewees got waitlisted from the undergrad this time around.</p>
<p>meursalt, i kind of agree with you-except that a lot of HPME interviewers did a lot more than just generic health activities. The kids who did research at the interview definitely didn’t do generic research or research that’s easy to obtain. I know I extensively pursued debate (an activity I consider competitive/normal for undergrad admissions if you’ve done well nationally), and I put down stuff on the HPME app that I wanted on my common app application-being aware of what you say-that things like shadowing on a common app application aren’t really impressive. I dont think HPME is really that impressed with generic shadowing stuff thought, so thats why Im surprised so many ppl got waitlisted.</p>
<p>Considering there are 100 interviews and half get rejected (50), and considering that not all 50 are on this website, It’s not that abnormal that the “many” people from here have gotten waitlisted from the undergrad.</p>
<p>I guess you are correct. Perhaps I jumped to conclusions because 5/6 interviewees I’ve spoken with all got waitlisted. I guess I will just take it for what it is. </p>
<p>meursalt-haha, no offense, but where are you getting those numbers from?</p>
<p>About 140-180 ppl get interviews and like 20-35 ppl get in. Also, its just that in the past on College confidential-this hasn’t happened that much. Also, every other direct program i’ve applied to sends out undergrad acceptance and then interviews. It doesnt matter at the end of the day-its just seems abnormal.</p>
<p>Oh lol but I think you have the wrong idea in how many people get in. There maybe 140-180 interviewed, but usually it’s half that get in but eventually 20-35 that ENROLL. I think…this is what im assuming from previous threads on CC.</p>
<p>This is very odd, I must say. I hope that 6th person was at least accepted and not rejected. There are probably different qualifications that make you seem attractive to the med school than to the undergrad schools.</p>
<p>Admissions are unpredictable; that’s all I have to say.</p>
<p>Obviously none of us have the admission stats-but the program doesnt accept half the interviewers. According to MSAR 20 ppl enrolled and 35 ppl were offered admission last year-obviously this changes every year, but I dont think it will-they have cut the program down a lot</p>
<p>And, no it doesnt strengthen your point. It’s abnormal because almost every other direct program accepts students into their undergrad program and then sends out interviews-even selective programs like Rice do exactly that.</p>
<p>Right but what i meant by strengthening my point is that if there are more interview offers and very few acceptances, much fewer than i thought, then it is not at all abnormal that 5/6interviewees were waitlisted at NU considering both departments have diff qualifications. As for why they got interview offers from HPME and waitlisted at NU, I have no idea. It’s abnormal in that sense, yes.</p>
<p>yea, meursalt, i guess we were agreeing about the same thing-its abnormal for direct programs to do this, but i agree undergrad and direct programs have different qualifications-but I still dont think thats entirely true. Hpme interviewers-at least the ones on my day did very legit things that could gain them admission at other universities. </p>
<p>Anyways, I’m curious about the HPME thing to-lol-that would be hilarious to get into HPME but waitlisted at NU-at that point I’m sure you would get off the waitlist-but to be honest-I think HPME sends the NU undergrad office a list of the students who got in-to make sure that those students were admitted into the undergrad program. This is all speculation though and I guess we will find out kind of soon</p>
<p>It seems like there is a computer error. My s did not get invited to an interview at HPME but got accepted to Northwestern last nite. There is no way that you are the caliber to be a HPME interviewee and you all got waitlisted. Not possible!</p>
<p>And we also know that there were computer glitches for transmissions of acceptance/rejections last nite.</p>
<p>How can we know for sure that there computer glitches? As twilight said, the undergraduate school and the school of medicine make their decisions separately. I just so wish what you said was true, however.</p>
<p>Nitcomp, I guess we will just have to wait and see when HPME decisions to come out to make that call. If one of us ends up getting accepted, then we can probably determine there was something wrong. But indeed, I do hope that Twilightxoxgirl is correct in her assessment (which is it seems like she/he is), and that we don’t have to completely count ourselves out of HPME.</p>