No more HPME at Northwestern

Pre-Med & Medical School Multiple Degree Programs
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<p>There will be no more HPME program, i heard this from a preety valid source at Northwestern and wan't to make sure is this right or not.</p>

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<p>sorry wrong info there just cutting the program not cancelling it</p>

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<p>Cutting as in reducing the number of acceptees?!</p>

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<p>what????? </p>

<p>OH NO!!! I want to go to HPME next year!</p>

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<p>PLEASE tell me you're joking
by how many people??</p>

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<p>they are reducing by 5 people per yer to get the class reduced to 35 students.</p>

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<p>Does any one know the reason for this gradual reduction in the program?</p>

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<p>to make it more competitive....better the stats of students....make the program more prestigious...</p>

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<p>I found this from the Feinberg website:</p>

<p>"The HPME, a combined seven-year BA-MD program, has historically accounted for up to one-third of the medical school class with approximately 60 matriculants per year. The school would like to reduce the program to 20 students per year, with 12 to 15 admitted in the standard manner as freshmen and 5 to 8 admitted as sophomores. This will help address some deficiencies related to academic performance of some HPME students and improve the overall diversity of the medical school class, since few minorities enter on this pathway. We recognize, however, that the HPME is a joint program with the Evanston campus undergraduate program and any changes must meet our collective needs."</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/strategicplan/foundation/foundation.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/strategicplan/foundation/foundation.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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During the past several years, we have admitted a national medical student body with some of the highest credentials we have seen. We will refine our admissions process to continue recruiting a more diverse, more national student body, of even higher caliber, from a wide range of undergraduate schools. Our goal is to compete with the best medical schools for the best and most desirable students, as measured by the number of applicants jointly accepted by the Feinberg School and the nation’s top medical schools who then choose to matriculate here. While we have made progress in recruiting a more diverse medical student class through our regular admissions pathway, we need to improve the diversity of students admitted through the Honors Program in Medical Education (HPME) and the Medical Scientist Training Program, which leads to both MD and PhD degrees.</p>

<p>The HPME, a combined seven-year BA-MD program, has historically accounted for up to one-third of the medical school class with approximately 60 matriculants per year. The school would like to reduce the program to 20 students per year, with 12 to 15 admitted in the standard manner as freshmen and 5 to 8 admitted as sophomores. This will help address some deficiencies related to academic performance of some HPME students and improve the overall diversity of the medical school class, since few minorities enter on this pathway. We recognize, however, that the HPME is a joint program with the Evanston campus undergraduate program and any changes must meet our collective needs.

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This will help address some deficiencies related to academic performance of some HPME students and improve the overall diversity of the medical school class, since few minorities enter on this pathway.

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<p>Isn't the last phrase incorrect gramatically? It sounds like they want to admit less minorities lol.</p>