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<p>Um, Hopkins premed here. I asked the Director of Pre professional advising, Dr. Verrier about this. He basically told me that the committee looks out for the best interests of it’s applicants. Most med schools boast an acceptance rate of 2 or 3%. The committee is headed various faculty members from across all academic dvisions of Hopkins including doctors, researchers, and the former dean of admissions of Hopkins med school. It is among the top 3 premed advising committees in America.</p>
<p>They exist for a reason. They are extremely useful because they will advise you on ways to improve your application and to make sure you are 100% ready before you blow $3000 on application fees, stress over writing personal statements and secondary applications, travel all over the country for interviews only to get one or two acceptance letters or worse… none at all.</p>
<p>If you think prescreening committee is tough, I doubt you will be ready for medicine in general. Competition to get into med school is so vicious dude, if you don’t get an okay from the committee…you won’t get into med school anyways. It’s like complaining that organic chemistry is a weeder course. Come on lol</p>
<p>They’ll tell you to go improve MCAT scores, do post bacc work to improve your GPA, Peace Corps, Teach For America, pursue a masters, do graduate work, find a Clinical job… anything that will make sure their alumni are successful so that they can give $$$ back when the school needs them in the future (like right now during an economic crisis)</p>