<p>@Late2Party
Thanks. Do you know if the interview invitation would be sent by email separately, or posted to the web portal?</p>
<p>Does anybody know when Drexel/Drexel decisions are coming out, or have they already been sent out?</p>
<p>@deglu67 I got in, but I haven’t heard anything about scholarships.</p>
<p>@darkalley Dr. Rao said Pitt GAP would come out in mid-April, and I believe Miami HPM will come out within the next week or so.</p>
<p>@Sadfeet Congrats!!! I got into Rice too. Hopefully that’s a good sign!</p>
<p>@SLCMom - last year, interview invitations were by email. I am assuming it would be the same way this time also, but I am not sure. </p>
<p>When do Rice Baylor notifications come out?</p>
<p>In a day or two.</p>
<p>Ah okay 
Thanks!</p>
<p>@deglu67- I got $10,000 scholarship at BU. It says in the applicant portal. </p>
<p>I was waitlisted at Rice. I guess this means I’m out of the running? </p>
<p>Does anyone have an opinion on PSU/Jeff vs. BU SMED? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!! </p>
<p>@Late2Party
Thanks!</p>
<p>Hey all! A couple of my friends at BU were talking about grade deflation. Is this a rumor, or have any of you heard about this too? Any thoughts on this? Thanks! </p>
<p>i got waitlisted at Rice too, would they still be considering me then for rice/baylor or is it reject? </p>
<p>@starlight27 were u accepted in bu smed and psu/jeff ? </p>
<p>One MUST be accepted to RICE to be passed on to Baylor discretion.</p>
<p>I am waitlisted at RICE too. During the RICE alum interview, when asked, I indicated that I was interested in Rice only for RICE-Baylor program. Could this have been a reason for the wait list? I would not attend RICE anyways if I didn’t get accepted in RICE Baylor Program. I guess, I am off to Stanford then. </p>
<p>Hi guys - I’m new to this and decided to check out everyone who’d gotten into their BS/MD programs of choice. Congrats to you all! I got accepted by HPME (which I’m extremely excited about) and I just got accepted to Rice. I only applied to four BS/MD Programs (Rice/Baylor, Northwestern HPME, Case Western and Brown PLME) and I’m off to my interview at Case tomorrow. </p>
<p>Does anyone know when Baylor will send out their interview invitations? I was offered $500 to go to their admitted student open house thing, which they said was offered to only a select number of students from their applicant pool, so I’m hopeful…the reason I ask is that I’m pretty committed to HPME, and the only thing that could wobble that commitment is Rice/Baylor.</p>
<p>Congrats @esun1996. So there are a bunch of us wondering what it takes to get an interview at Case. Are your stats amazing or do you have some other hook?</p>
<p>Hi everyone, is there a consensus top choice between Rice Baylor, HPME, BU SMED and REMS</p>
<p>Thanks, @Midhelper. I wouldn’t call my stats AMAZING, per se, rather sufficient to get me in through the door - 4.0 GPA with full IB, 2330 on my SAT I’s, 800’s on Bio, Math II, and Chemistry subject tests, a couple of 5’s on AP tests and 2 7’s on IB tests (I’ll finish testing this year in IB). I’ll let you know all my activities and stats, and let you decide for yourself whether I have a “hook”. Mostly, I think it’s a lot about being genuine - most of my activities I did because I absolutely love medicine and am for sure pursuing it, not because I wanted to build a resume. I also come from an immigrant family, and I wrote about it in my essay, and have been told I have an interesting life story (if that accounts for anything at all). </p>
<p>Lemme see… I guess my three “biggest” activities were:
- My internship at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (in Seattle): I interned under several Nobel Laureates (but I didn’t mention that they were Nobel Laureates in my essay), and was published twice in several of their papers (but really, it was bench work, so nothing to brag about). I completed that my Junior year summer and have dropped by occasionally on weekends when school will allow to continue my work.
- Volunteering for FEAT of Washington: I’ve been volunteering with severely autistic children for about 5 years now, and I love it!
- I’ve completed several hundred hours of shadowing my family physician, and went to China for 2 and a half weeks to observe a cardiologist there while we were visiting family, which I think was pretty cool and mentioned in my interview for HPME (but didn’t mention for Case, so who knows). </p>
<p>Otherwise, I’m fairly well-rounded. I swim for my club team, I play violin and piano and have won several competitions and participated in All-State/All-Northwest and all that jazz. I’m editor-in-chief of my newspaper, which won Nationals two years running, and concertmaster/mistress of my school’s orchestra. I haven’t won any amazing awards for science or mathematics like some of the other folks here. I think I just conveyed genuine passion and maturity in my essays and let the chips fall where they may. I honestly was so surprised when I got both interviews/when I was accepted at HPME…</p>
<p>A big part of what Dr. Green asked about (which she thought would make me uncomfortable but really didn’t) was what my counselor wrote in my letter of rec, and what I wrote in my CommonApp personal statement, about my mother’s emotional instability and occasionally abusive behavior. I think that I displayed maturity and thoughtfulness, and that’s why Dr. Green said I was the most impressive high-schooler she’d ever met. A lot of kids went through abuse that was much worse; however, if I were to ever have a “hook” it would be that. </p>
<p>I hope my gratuitously lengthy reply helped a little! Also, I know at least one other girl who I was interviewing at HPME with who also got an interview at Case! So it’s not impossible…but they only admit around 10 kids, so that might be why.</p>
<p>HPME is my top choice! Closely followed by Rice/Baylor and then perhaps Brown PLME, let’s see if I can get into the latter two but you know…</p>
<p>HPME I just love. The location, the university, the program… there’s no MCAT, lower GPA requirement, and it’s accelerated with a lot of room for choices. Both undergrad and med schools are well-renowned and for good reason - they are spectacular. I really like NU Feinberg’s Clinical and Research mix that they do so well as well. Rice/Baylor is not accelerated, curriculum is QUITE difficult I’ve heard, and they’re adding a MCAT requirement. Still an amazing program, though. Brown PLME is slowly deteriorating. I know someone who knows someone in it who has taken almost every single class pass/fail at UG Brown because they know that no matter what, they have a spot in the med school. They don’t pick the best of the best because they don’t do med school interviews. But it’s Brown, so the quality of the education is not lacking, it’s just some of the kids they admit slack off.</p>
<p>Oh - a note for HPME that @esun1996 reminded me of… Dr. Green also told me in my interview with her that she was “very interested in me.” My main hook, besides my EC’s and accomplishments, was having a REALLY good knowledge of the medical field. I grew up in a medical family and I worked as a CNA my junior year, which is lowly, grueling nursing home work involving helping residents to shower, eat, change, use the restroom, and deal with messes. I worked in a mental facility for mainly criminal offenders for a long overnight shift, and I think she was impressed at my maturity in being able to deal with that. Living in a rural healthcare based state, I didn’t have the “doctor-god” mentality that apparently a lot of HPME candidates walk into her room with. Dr. Green and I talked for like 10 minutes just about how healthcare has to be team-based and not doctor-centric, as it is in many academic hospitals. I am not sure about other schools, but a really good idea of the medical field (not just shadowing or ideas gotten from TV/internet, but real experiences) will always help. I could ramble on all day on how useless I personally think shadowing is. You just sit and observe all day - I’d rather devote those hours to hospital volunteer work or getting EMT/CNA certified to do some good in the community, which is what I did. You simultaneously get shoved into positions where you have to assume responsibility when you do that. I totally respect the people who shadow though, because that takes dedication.</p>
<p>EGOS run amuck</p>