<p>qtpie, thank you SOOO much for your help. That thread (I had to search for it online because it was *******'d) really helped.</p>
<p>well put bharath</p>
<p>i just want to know everyone’s opinion on lehigh…please</p>
<p>no problem, neom. i don’t know why it ****ed me. i also wanted to tell you that a friend of mine gave up mit for nu’s hpme.</p>
<p>qtpie: thanks. wow there’s gonna be a lot of smart ppl in this HPME program… Maybe CC <strong><em>'d you because </em></strong>* is a competing forum to College Confidential?</p>
<p>(edit: yep, I tried typing the “X” word in there and CC ****'d me)</p>
<p>which would you guys choose:</p>
<p>swarthmore college
ursinus/drexel prog -8 years
drexel/drexel prog -7 years
tcnj/umdnj prog -7 years</p>
<p>(ahh, im having such a tough time making this decision!)</p>
<p>psu 6 year with jefferson med or bu 7 year</p>
<p>i’d go with bu 7 year,
better med skool
boston’s a helleva city
and overall the program is less rigorous and more flexible
bu is kinda expensive adn most program kids dont get scholarships but i’d still go with bu.</p>
<p>jefferson med school, altho maybe lower ranked is still considered very good by many… i think tigger posted on another thread that 85% got into their first or second choice (<a href=“Welcome to the Jefferson Libraries”>http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/Education/forum/01/04/articles/march.html</a>) and that was in 2001… not sure on BU’s stats</p>
<p>philadelphia is also a great city too…</p>
<p>the program from what i heard at psu is very relaxing even for 6 year students… due to the fact that they were able to use ap credits</p>
<p>duhb33f…did u hear from umdnj?!</p>
<p>i’m still waiting on that one and if i get in my choice is: lehigh/drexel or tcnj/umdnj</p>
<p>any comments (please)?</p>
<p>there has been a lot of negative criticism about lehigh (the location, the people, the homogenity aka all white, etc) but guaranteed med school is too tempting.</p>
<p>tcnj is a good school (definitely underrated). the location is “eh.”</p>
<p>well any comments would be most appreciated (crossing my fingers for umdnj so i at least get a choice!)</p>
<p>See, the thing is express. It’s still a tough decision. At a less prestigious school, you would be like a big fish in a small pond and could get known well because of the calibur of people accepted into a given med program. But even if the ivy education may not live up to the name, it still attracts that kind of calibur of students (like CC kids). And, with the ivy decision, you may have the opportunity to go to an even better medical school. I myself am stuck in choosing between an ivy and a med program. Not that i’m favoring the ivy, but i’m still don’t see the program as a clear-cut win. It’s going to be an incredibly difficult decision. Anyone out there who is choosing an ivy over a med program? Anyone else who got into the union/AMC program want to share their thoughts on that program versus others or versus ivies? Thanks.</p>
<p>I’m pretty much in the same position sholefs… there’s no clear winner for me. What’s the ivy you’re considering?</p>
<p>most likely if u go to cornell or some other ivy of equal caliber and u do okay…ull have to go to a med school like albany medical…the thing with the union/amc program is that u get an mba in the four years along with ur bs or w/e and so if u graduate from that program ull not only be an md but also have an mba opening up more options…if instead u go to cornell and then albany med school ull jsut be an md, no mba…if out of both options u enter same medical school - id go with union/amc and ud save A LOT of money for undergrad tuition also…but it depends on the ivy league school u got into and if u believe u can truly be the top at that shcool…just getting acepted into the school means that the school believes u will be albe to pass but idk about being the top - thats ur decision</p>
<p>i’m not in an ivy situation, but it’s duke, so its almost the same. </p>
<p>::sigh:: ive heard so many pieces of advice in the past few days, my head is spinning, of whether bu med program vs. duke. this is the hardest decision of my life</p>
<p>i think id go with bu
its a hard decision but atleast either way u cant really go wrong
id go with bu definitely if i was getting some money for undergrad scholarship - just pick whichever one will cost less because both are good options</p>
<p>i’ve been struggling with this for the past couple of days too.
hpme at northwestern or an ivy education at penn/cornell/princeton/columbia?
obviously hpme is a great program, but i’m afraid i’d be settling by not going to an ivy.
any thoughts?</p>
<p>cjunkie—ivy league isn’t everything. Seriously, if you are certain you want to become a doctor…why go through the stress most pre-med students at ivy leagues go through? When I was at Penn for a visit, an admission officer told me that usually 800 of incoming freshman are premed!!! Of course that drops as they go through school…but still, that’s a lot of competition.
As for the post about psu’s accelerated program, you have the option of going 6 years OR 7 years.</p>
<p>cjunkie 312</p>
<p>I think you may be underestimating Northwestern University, it is commonly referred to as the ivy of the midwest.</p>
<p>additionally, northwestern is as good, if not a better school than columbia/cornell/penn. </p>
<p>If i were you, my only choice would be princeton/hpme. Don’t consider the others. Not that they’re bad or anything, but they’re not at the same level.</p>
<p>i agree with helloall87</p>
<p>cjunkie, I’d have to agree with everyone else. Only consider Princeton and HPME, since the others really are not on the same level. Also, you have to consider the fact that there’s grade deflation going on at Princeton, what with the restrictions on the numbers of A’s given out for each class. Do you really want to have to fight for those A’s in order to have a shot at a school like Feinberg? If you’re prepared to do it, go for it. </p>
<p>Say you’re considering Princeton mainly b/c of prestige, or b/c it would offer you the better undergrad experience. Well, you might not be thinking that when you’re just another pre-med trying to get a good GPA. It’s just a thought…in the end, it really comes down to how much you want to go to Princeton (or the other schools you’re considering). If your heart is going to ache for months because you’re giving it up, then I’d say go there, but be prepared for the work. If you’re kind of wavering, go to HPME.</p>
<p>cjunkie312, I have been one of those - and I am in the minority - who does not see these combination programs as being a panacea for all who wish to pursue medicine. I think that there is a legitimate case that can be made that if the options are between a mediocre med school that is part of such a program versus a top notch undergrad school, one should look take a serious look at the latter.</p>
<p>Having said this, your choice between Northwestern’s program and the undergrad schools that you mentioned is a very different situation. You have been accepted into a first rate program and unless there is some other compelling reason to go to an Ivy first, I’d say that you should accept the Northwestern offer. It is unlikely that you would do a whole lot better than Northwestern’s med school, even after attending an Ivy.</p>
<p>Now there could be other factors - whether financial or related to some personal goals that you may have or perhaps uncertainty whether you would want to be a doctor - but that is a whole different ball game.</p>