<p>i'm going CRAZY! I want to be in HPME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Hrm...I told my doctor interviewer and engineering interviewer that i scored higher on the math IIc in January. I hope they'll take that into account. Eva said they wouldn't though. Hrm....</p>
<p>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!</p>
<p><em>winces a little</em> student interviewer was very nice but somehow I didn't communicate with her as well as I did with my faculty interviewer.</p>
<p>ivyboy05 - once you get an interview, I don't think SATs are worth much ;). Don't you worry too much.</p>
<p>I agree the student interviewer and the faculty is on the committee. What does that mean? It only implies that the student interviewer and the faculty interviewer gives a numerical rating to the applicant. The 132 applicants are then discussed by a _______ member admissions committee. This year the rumor is, that 59 students will be selected. The admissions committee expect 48 to 50 students to accept admission to Fienberg and Northwestern. Good luck to all of you. A brief reminder, hospital experience during junior and senior years is a plus. Statistics has demonstrated that eventually all applicants invited for the interview do get into a medicine program after four years of education. The quality of all the applicants invited for an interview is in the top one percent.</p>
<p>Where did you find such statistics, dude?</p>
<p>it sounds about right, i heard approx 140 interviewed, 60 would be accepted, 50 enroll</p>
<p>that was last year.. which was far different from the previous years.. right?</p>
<p>Hey people-- I was wondering if you guys could share your opinions.. about the dropout rates (aka survival rates) of the HPME program. I heard from my student interviewer that from 40 in his initial class, about 17 were now gone. He said something like.. "some fail out and some go through all the PreMed Stuff so that they can apply to other medical schools" -- what do you guys think?</p>
<p>The term "drop out" is used very loosely. Some applicants look at HPME as an insurance plan. After two and a half years at Northwestern they find out that they have a MCAT score very close to 40. They now apply to schools like Harvard, Yale, Stanford. And that's what drop out means. Good luck to all of you.</p>
<p>The kid i stayed with was trying to purposely fail out of HPME cause he hated it so much. (He was an english major)</p>
<p>GAH! like what? less than 20 days now, right? anyone want to call and find out when we will find out?</p>
<p>Also, do they e-mail us? or do we wait for snail mail?</p>
<p>ivyboy05 -
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They told me I will get an email on the 1st of April..
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that's from plushenko</p>
<p>Hi.
It sounds wierd that I'm just dropping in (I've been following this thread for a while) but I am in the class of 2006 and looking to apply to HPME next year. My academic standings so far are ok (SAT 1510, SAT II Writing 800, others I will take later). I don't have any hospital/medical related community service though... and that will probably hurt me a lot. I want to go to the NIH Summer Internship Program this summer to make up for it, by I haven't heard anything back from them. Has anyone done the NIH program before? How hard is it to get in? Is there anything else I should do?
Thanks, mlee88</p>
<p>hm, year-long community service could help too - just the summer isn't quite enough somehow, imo anyway.</p>
<p>don't neglect general leadership positions at school.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember what other SAT II mlee will need? I think tehy specified but i can't remember...</p>
<p>haha, sorry guy, if i get in, i'll be able to help out more.</p>
<p>SAT IIs in Math (Level 2), Writing (gone so I don't know what will happen), and Chemistry.</p>
<p>I heard they're going to change the requirement for SAT II in writing to an SAT II in Chinese. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks for the tips! I'll be sure to keep those in mind. Right now I am anxiously hoping for acceptance into one of the NIH summer internships. It's killing me that it's been two months and I haven't heard anything from them... and they're supposed to review applications on a rolling basis too... Oh well. Good luck as you guys wait for HPME admissions results :-)</p>
<p>hey can any of you HPME experts tell me if i'm on the right track to applying? i'm only a sophomore right now but getting into HPME is my lifetime goal (for the next couple years at least)</p>
<p>My Stats:
SAT - haven't taken (hitting consistent practice scores of 760-M, 640-V, 670 -W)
PSAT - 209 (10th Grade)
SAT II - projected 720+ MIIC, projected 700+ Bio
ACT - 29 (9th Grade)
GPA - 3.9uw / 4.61w</p>
<p>AP Classes: currently taking AP Bio, AP World History, AP Stats
Projected score 5 on Bio and Stats, 3 or 4 on World</p>
<p>ECs
Hospital volunteer for over 2 years - almost 200 hrs.
Great Plains Math League - 1st at state (9)
All District and All State Orchestra (10)
Section Leader Orchestra (9,10)
Varsity Letter Orchestra (10)
Youth Symphony Community Orchestra (7,8,9,10)
Science Olympiad - 1st in two events (9)
Treasurer of Science Olympiad (10)
Tri-M (Music Honor Society) (10)
Foreign Language Honor Society (10)</p>
<p>Currently searching for an internship at local universities for the summer</p>
<p>up your standardized scores.. otherwise your ec's look great, taking ap's (take ap chem and ap physics), don't forget to take sat 2 chem as well</p>
<p>17 more days?</p>
<p>So they just decide from the interview then ehh? If so, how can the people say yes or no with so many interviewees and if all the interviewers are on the committee then it'd be hard to differentiate then right?</p>