<p>for those who are interviewing/have interviewed…wat should i bring? my interview is on monday and i jsut dont know if i should bring any extra stuff like sample work. </p>
<p>ill bring the “small photo” for sure, but just anything else?</p>
<p>Oh I’m pretty sure you’ll get an app.I think your objective stats are very strong and so you will get an app. But as the selection gets more selective it starts to moove away from purely numbers to more about what I talked about. That’s why you should definitely pour a lot of effort and heart into your HPME app.</p>
<p>Dank - It was unweighted, my school doesn’t weight GPAs. I think it was the lack of clinical experience that killed me.</p>
<p>MadHatter - I may still go to NW for undergraduate, but I had my application forwarded to Medill because if I go to NW, I want to do journalism and pre-med and I’ll just do it the traditional way. I’ve still got my fingers, toes and everything else crossed for the USC program to come through, but if not, I’m probably ending up at USC anyway.</p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone else!</p>
<p>did anyone of you guys who didn’t get a interview for NW get one for a difference Ba/MD program?</p>
<p>i didnt get one for nw but i did get one for usc and caltech/ucsd.</p>
<p>oh wow, congrats</p>
<p>you don’t have to bring anything else to the interview except the small photo. i brought copies of my resume and research paper, but it wasn’t needed. they had my application in front of them.</p>
<p>guys, the admissions for this program have nothing to do with your grades or scores. Grades and scores are only good enough to get you the app, after that, it’s how well you convince the admissions people that you want to pursue a career in medicine. If you have awesome stats and you weren’t offered an interview, maybe you didn’t convince Dr. Green and the other admissions staff that you are absolutely 100% certain that you want to do medicine.</p>
<p>and while what norcalguy is saying may be true, we musn’t forget that Feinberg remains one of the best medical schools in the world and that any disorganization can be due to the fact that there is a brand new dean of medicine. give it some time, they’ll get things sorted out.</p>
<p>PLEEEEAAAAASE people … the abbreviation is </p>
<pre><code> NU
</code></pre>
<p>not NW (NW is a high school)</p>
<p>i’ve heard that the hpme program is really deteriorating because they want to get rid of it…at least that’s what someone who is in the program now was saying. He said that the professors didn’t really care and he was really dissapointed. What do the rest of you think who are in the program?</p>
<p>word choice here is incorrect. the program is not deteriorating. deteriorating would indicate that the students in the program are underperforming or dropping out of medical school. Rather, the program is being shrunk. there are less students being admitted so the quality of the program is actually increasing.</p>
<p>plus, there aren’t any professors involved in HPME. HPMEs don’t take any special classes so I don’t know what your friend said about professors not caring.</p>
<p>mahavir10,</p>
<p>HPME is getting more selective while being shrunk. Feinberg has been getting increasingly competitive and they ask NU to make HPME more selective so that the HPMEs are on par with their non-HPME peers.</p>
<p>“i’ve heard that the hpme program is really deteriorating”</p>
<p>I find it interesting that people begin to make negative statements (“deteriorating” does possess a negative connotation) when things do not work out…makes me think of the Clintons before every recent primary…</p>
<p>anyways, I think jonthelin and Sam Lee cleared it up.</p>
<p>rejected, no interview</p>
<p>ACT: 35
GPA: 3.96, hardest classes
4 time tennis state champ, not a whole lot of med. ECs
great essays, compelling reasons why I want to go into medicine</p>
<p>Well, I guess there were people with sim. stats to mine who had research and hospital volunteering and got rejected so I’m not surprised…at the same time I kind of am b/c I know my essays were very good and I am pretty distinguished for my main EC. It seems kind of dumb you have to do specific activities to SHOW interest, but hey, these are med school acceptances, so they have to be 100% sure they know what they’re getting.</p>
<p>I’m not looking forward to the MCATs but at least w/ a traditional 4 yr UG education I’ll get a more liberal arts base and get to spend more time in college! Good luck w/ interviews to everyone who got one, I visited NU and it has a very nice campus.</p>
<p>LOL i forgot wat time im interviewing at. i think its 9am. does every1 interview at the same time?</p>
<p>and do we just go to the med admissions office?</p>
<p>not everyone is at the same time… i think everyone who went on my day had the same three interviewers… so 30 min. periods… do the math</p>
<p>and you go to the main medical campus and turn rt after you enter the door
the hpme office is rt in there</p>
<p>well it opens betwen 830 and 9, so ill just get there at 830…</p>
<p>yea that’ll be best</p>
<p>they’ll hand you a schedule once you go in</p>
<p>i think the earliest possible is 9 but it may start in the afternoon even</p>
<p>u can always leave after if ur way early</p>
<p>good luck</p>
<p>regarding liberal arts education and HPME: the HPME program has a very low GPA/science GPA requirement (3.0/3.2). Therefore, you can spend less time on science and grades and focus more on getting an excellent liberal arts education. That is pretty much the whole idea of the program.</p>
<p>Also, if you wish to stay for 4 rather than 3 years, there is absolutely nothing to stop you from doing so.</p>