Which one is the top?
<p>Northwestern's 7-year HPME.</p>
<p>If you do HPME, be prepared to work like mad!!!!!</p>
<p>St. Louis and UMiami are pretty good, I've heard.</p>
<p>go 'canes! :D</p>
<p>What do you mean? The whole point of HPME is that you don't have the stress of being a pre-med. You only need a 3.2 GPA to stay in the program, and the MCAT is not required.</p>
<p>I mean like the school with the best 8-7 accelerated med program record. Like the cream of the crop</p>
<p>im_blue :</p>
<p>Are you in HPME? Do you know any?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure the top 2 by far in the country are Northwestern and Brown.</p>
<p>I know 2 people in HPME. It's a pretty competitive program, you fill out a card with your class rank and SAT scores and they mail out applications to 300 people, of which they accept about 50. It's more selective than HYP.</p>
<p>"It's more selective than HYP."</p>
<p>-This is not true. HYP admissions rates are all below 10%, while the rate of those entering HPME is about 17% Also, Im sure the many people I know in HPME would not agree that it is in any way easy; many of the stern requirements for HPME are often very difficult to complete.</p>
<p>"while the rate of those entering HPME is about 17%"</p>
<p>Yes, but they get a couple thousand applications FOR the application form. You need a certain class rank and test scores just to receive an application form because they don't want to waste time looking at apps. Since you're at Northwestern, you could ask some HPME students which schools they turned down to see for yourself.</p>
<p>"Also, Im sure the many people I know in HPME would not agree that it is in any way easy; many of the stern requirements for HPME are often very difficult to complete."</p>
<p>Of course pre-med courses are not easy, but maintaining a 3.2 in your science classes and not taking the MCAT is certainly easy compared to what a typical pre-med goes through. HPME does not have "stern requirements," only 11 pre-med courses that you'd have to take anyway (2 chem, 3 organic chem, 3 physics, 3 biology). You don't even need to finish the requirements for any specific bachelor's degree if you don't want to.</p>
<p>the 8 year program at Union College is pretty good too!!</p>
<p>Actually, Brown's PLME is technically more selective....5.5% this year as compared to 7%ish for HPME. English5, look in the "Multiple degree forum" for the answers to all of your questions.</p>
<p>How does Boston University's program compare (competitiveness, difficulty, etc.)?</p>
<p>hpme is technically has an approximate acceptance rate of 2.25-2.5%</p>
<p>45-50 (students who decide to attend)/2000applicants (including the SAT card)</p>
<p>Someone I know asked the coordinator how many students applied this year and they said around 5,500 (sent in cards)...so the actual rate is closer to 1%, which is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Overall, I think Brown admits more than 60 students into PLME.</p>
<p>english 5: perhaps you have this list that contains most, if not all the combined programs?</p>
<p>there are many really good combined programs you can consider. nu and brown are perhaps the better known and well established ones. some are really competitive and selective. you can see the stats of nu and brown above. in the program that i've been accepted to at ucsd, only students with a minimum of 1500 (old) sat or 34 act and a minimum 4.0 gpa are invited to apply! but you must be a california resident and only 12 are eventually selected. some programs allow you to apply out like ucsd, and i think brown. </p>
<p>i don't really know what you mean by "top" program. it is really a subjective term. i think that case western and rice/baylor are other excellent programs as well. from what i've heard, in the program at rice, like ucsd's med program, students are intergrated into the regular curriculum, without anyone really knowing that they are med scholars. it could be because both of these programs are very small, accepting only 12 to 15 students, as opposed to nu, brown or bu's programs. </p>
<p>about bu: the program at bu does segregate its students, who share the same dorm floor. i sense that although it is competitive, it is perhaps much easier to get admitted than nu or brown, perhaps because it's undergrad program is not as appealing as nu and brown's. but its med school is fantastic. i do know that it has very strict science requirements of its accel med students, perhaps like nu's program; but you can double major in anything you want.</p>
<p>you may want to consider many factors when applying to combined programs: geographical location, the ease of applying out, residency placements, research opportunities for students, medical school rankings...then you'll find the top program for you!</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>I don't know if I'm prepared to identify one program as the best of all of them, but I would submit that the Rice/Baylor Medical Scholars program should be considered one of the top programs. Get your undergrad degree at Rice and while enjoying guaranteed admission to the Baylor College of Medicine - I think that's not a bad deal.</p>
<p>There is a BA/MD prog. at the University of Rochester. you have to have at least a 3.95 uw gpa. REMS</p>
<p>REMS had like a 3% acceptance rate this year. I think 15 were chosen from 450 applicants.</p>
<p>I am a high school senior who applied to 2 accelerated med programs (Siena & Union), and I was admitted to both of them. I have found that all the med programs (or at least the ones I looked at) have very different focuses. For example, the Siena College program is focused on humanities and community service, and the Union one is more concerned with business and administration. The point is, find a program that matches your unique interests. That is the best program for you!</p>