<p>I just found this thread. It’s been up since 2004? wow.
I’m sending in my final app tomorrow. Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>whoa that’s early!</p>
<p>alohasam89,
What was the application like? What were the essay topics?</p>
<p>How did you get a confirmation that your request card was recieved?
I am planning to print mine and send it- I don’t have the hard copy. Should I just post it in regular mail? Should I track it or something? </p>
<p>Bye the way, great job getting the application done!</p>
<p>Anyone know the statistics for application to HPME?</p>
<p>When do you usually get the application?..</p>
<p>It says that the HPME supplementary application is due January…</p>
<p>so we are given like 2 weeks to finish the whole thing?</p>
<p>not 2 weeks if you turned in the HPME request card early. I turned it in, in sept and got the application in october</p>
<p>Does anyone know how hard HPME is to get into? I’m looking there and I heard the acceptance rate is about…3% (?!). I just had a random thought over the summer that I’d like to go to medicine and might as well apply to medical school. I’m more of a humanities person so I haven’t held any science internships or won any major science awards. Can someone give me some idea of how HPME select their applicants?</p>
<p>on the HPME application, right after the secondary schools attended and right before the “Classrank”, there is sth thats called " GRADUATION DATE" in caps. What is this?</p>
<p>What do you guys actually think about Feinberg? (things like curriculum, location, opportunities for clinical experience, quality of facilities, competitiveness of the students, etc.) Or do you guys just go by the reputation alone? I can’t imagine a HSer understanding enough about medical education to consider all of these factors. I know I certainly didn’t know very much about med school when I was applying for college.</p>
<p>If you didn’t request for the hpme application be dec 1, can u still apply to the program?</p>
<p>no you cannot.
also, if you live in a really small town where you have like no research opportunity, does that really go against you? is there any way to explain that? i did spend eight weeks at harvard where we did an extensive amount of lab if that helps</p>
<p>bump norcalguys question</p>
<p>I personally like almost everything about Feinberg when I visited. Location is terrific. Hospital is like a 5-star hotel. Good mix of young and old (40 non-traditional students and of course the young HPME’s) in the student body. The only thing I’m unsure about is the PBL. They made us do a mock-PBL session at the end of our interview day and it was the most horrible 1-hour of torture I had ever experienced at an interview (this was after surviving the 1 1/2 hour panel 3-on-3 interview at Feinberg just hours earlier). It might be because we had been there since 7:30 AM but I would definitely need to attend Second Look Weekend before matriculating.</p>
<p>I asked this question few pages ago but no one answered. One of my friends who is already in HPME said that HPME students do not get financial aid. Is there any truth to it? Appreciate your feedback.</p>
<p>AMD: that’s not true at all. HPME students get the same finaid as any other NU undergrad.</p>
<p>norcalguy,</p>
<p>don’t know anything about med but the location is awesome, as you probably already found out when you visited. it’s a little too touristy for my taste. i personally like lakeview and lincoln park more which are just couple miles north of it. many areas by the lakefront are nice and if you live in one of them, you probably don’t need a car to get most of the things you need.</p>
<p>Unfortunately that’s the tradeoff. If you want to live in a big city, the nice areas are going to be touristy. Tourists aren’t going to go over to Hyde Park or Dominican Heights or West Philly. My tour guide at Penn Med said a couple of his friends saw people getting shot right in front of their apartments.</p>
<p>well chicago is not the safest city ever, but I think you just have to be careful and not let the location dictate your decision in attending.</p>
<p>the evanston campus is located in evanston which is really safe overall. students walk around late at night with little or no fear of being mugged/robbed/etc. </p>
<p>the chicago campus is on lake shore drive in a really nice part of chicago; it is very safe there as well.</p>
<p>google2008,</p>
<p>i think he was talking about philly, not chicago.</p>
<p>norcalguy,</p>
<p>that’s not true about chicago. the neighborhoods just north of it are nice but not touristy. gold coast is not that touristy but is probably the most prestigious area in chicago. places like navy pier and magnificent mile make streetville touristy but i am sure there are streets that are more quiet. lincoln park and lakeview are vibrant and very nice but not touristy. chicago is way better and cleaner than philly. i may be biased but my friend from nyc just visited chicago and thought it’s nice. but when asked about philly, he said it’s “crappy”.</p>
<p>One small correction: I wrote “Dominican Heights” above but Columbia P&S is actually in Washington Heights. The students are the ones who call it Dominican Heights ;)</p>
<p>I personally didn’t find Philly that bad. The only big city I don’t really like is NYC.</p>