<p>If you are accepted into this program do you have to go to med school at NW?</p>
<p>Also, is just checking the box on the NW Common App supplement for HPME all you have to do to apply to it?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>you are reserved a spot in NW’s med school, but it is not binding. Iff you choose to take MCAT and apply elsewhere, you are allowed to do that
yes, just do the supplement.
fyi: Northwestern is an awesome undergrad, but their med school is only pretty good… around #20</p>
<p>“but their med school is only pretty good… around #20”</p>
<p>Well, that all depends on what you want to do with your life, now doesn’t it? </p>
<p>I mean, what do you call a graduate in the bottom of his class from the lowest-ranked med school in the country?</p>
<p>After residency and other required training, he’s still a medical doctor.</p>
<p>And what do you call a med-school dropout? </p>
<p>A dentist.</p>
<p>Since finishing HPME several years ago I’ve spent time at major teaching hospitals in three cities and am currently on faculty at another well known research based medical school. Northwestern’s medical school is an internationally reputed top-tier institution with unmatched clinical facilities. Programs in pediatrics, gynecology, cardiology, oncology, psychiatry, PMR, etc. remain world class. With the medical school alone sporting a supra $1 billion endowment to shower on a cutting edge campus growing at unimaginable speed adjacent to Chicago’s “magnificent mile” one cannot underestimate the opportunities offered. Go visit the medical campus and speak with academic physicians – very few other institutions in the country can offer this enviable depth and breadth of clinical and research strengths.</p>
<p>I would never call a school that’s about the 20th best med school in the nation okay, and, honestly, who cares how amazing a med school is (if you’re going to be a doctor). Do you know where your doctor graduated college? This is not supposed to be a rant or anything bad. I’m just trying to make a point saying that med school should be the person’s choice and how difficult they want their final years to be. After all, the best doctors usually come from the best med schools, but the ones that aren’t “the best” still are doctors.</p>
<p>Definitely. A med school graduate is a doctor. And that’s all that counts.</p>
<p>even you graduate from top university(hyps), to apply #20 med school, the successful rate is about 20%.</p>
<p>I would like to clarify what an above poster said:</p>
<p>In HPME you are allowed to apply out to other medical schools. However, I believe that they have recently changed the program so that if you do, your spot will not be reserved at Feinberg.</p>
<p>Yes, if you are accepted as an HPME and decide to apply to other med schools, you forfeit your guaranteed spot in Feinberg (however, you can choose to apply to Feinberg along with other med schools).</p>
<p>A top 20 (21 to be exact) med school is definitely not just okay. If you do your research, you’ll discover that med school isn’t like undergraduate school. As a previous poster said, going to an Ivy League for undergrad does not come close to guaranteeing admission into a top 20 med school.</p>
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<p>There isn’t that much difference btwn a top 20 (or even top 30) med school and a top 5 med school.</p>
<p>NU’s med school is very well regarded and USNWR med school rankings are heavily predicated on research dollars. </p>
<p>NU’s med school over the past 10-12 yrs has focused its energy in obtaining a bigger share of the research $$ (hence, its rise in the USNWR rankings from the low 30s to around 20 today), but the med school’s reputation 10-12 yrs ago is not that much different from today (the caliber of students attending the med school really hasn’t changed).</p>
<p>there is a new Dean of Medicine this year so hopefully we’ll see even more research money pour in (we recently got a 21 million dollar grant for oncofertility: <a href=“http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/09/oncofertility.html[/url]”>http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/09/oncofertility.html</a>) </p>
<p>US News’ ranking system really doesn’t make sense.</p>
<p>“but their med school is only pretty good… around #20”</p>
<p>Are you on crack? Getting into a top-50 med school is an amazing accomplishment.</p>
<p>fyi, getting into hpme is probably one of the highest achievements a person can have in his lifetime.</p>
<p>its so ridiculously hard; to even be allowed to APPLY, you need to pass a certain cutoff. you have to send in a postcard with your stats, and if its good enough, they’ll send you an app.</p>