<p>Northwestern HPME is perhaps the hardest program in the country to gain admissions to. It only offers application to 1000 or so, and then only accepts 4% of those. In reality, the percent of people who apply to apply and actually get in is probably at or under 1%. You need to have over a 2200 and tons of hours of medical ECs and maybe even research. Then, you have an average shot of getting in.</p>