Brown PLME or Northwestern HPME

Sam_Lee
Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:20:37 +0000

^You are confusing medical schools with colleges. Brown med school does not have the kind of cachet in the medical world like the Ivies in the college world. I am not sure why you mentioned GPA, class rank, USMLE score, and recommendation letter. Were you thinking that Brown med school students have higher USMLE scores? I think you are confused here too. Northwestern med school acutally gets students of higher caliber with higher undergrad GPAs and MCAT scores. It’s very likely they will go on to get higher USMLE scores. Even if you look at only HPME vs PLME, HPME students have noticeably higher test scores (70+ points on M + CR; see post #7). It seems to me you just got colleges and med schools mixed up.