<p>I am interested in any info concerning Northwestern graduate’s medical school placements. Such info as what percentage of premeds get into their top five choices, etc. Thanks.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/pdf/viewbook.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/pdf/viewbook.pdf</a> says placement rate was 84%. That’s the only thing I’ve found.</p>
<p>Sam Lee – thank you so much! It is a very important info that my s is considering in making his final choice; he was offered pres scholar at cornell plus another school, yet still NU is his serious choice. Thanks again.
p.s. R U in the area currently ? – I am longing to retire back to so.cal. where I did my grad study, and been in northeast ever since.</p>
<p>I just moved from so cal to DC.</p>
<p>what is pres scholar? does it give significant fin benefit?</p>
<p>the full name is Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholar, named after one of cornell’s past presidents. It provides grant to pay off up to $4k/year of need-based student loans (to cancel up to $16k loans for 4 years), $8k budget to use toward own research project with a faculty mentor, etc. They say there are 200 such presidential scholars. he has done medical research with a journal paper in submission as coauthor with his mentors. my s is very active in various music (been playing 13-14 yrs involved in all honors ensembles, also involved in hs musical with two key supporting roles, etc.) but his main goal is in med career (applied and denied for the NU’s combined bs-md program). So we figure NU may be a good match for him, but will be hard to let go of cornell’s offer.</p>
<p>if the initial FA is comparable, then the difference in out-of-pocket is 16k.</p>
<p>what’s his intended major?</p>
<p>as far as the 8k research budget goes, it looks sweet but frequently students don’t pay for research projects anyway. they work with faculty on new projects or on-going ones with grants already secured (i bet that’s the case for his medical research). i think the 8k means more if it’s his own project from scratch and he already has something in his mind. In that case, NU also gives grants to undergrad but you need to write proposal to get it through a competitive process whereas you’d already have it at Cornell.</p>