Who Turned Down HPME For an Ivy League?

bluedevilmike
Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:45:05 +0000

Of course you can try for any dual degree you want - plenty of normal premeds do. Obviously HPME doesn’t hurt you in the pursuit of a dual degree.

My point is that:
1.) The major advantage to HPME is that you don’t HAVE to play the grad school admissions game.
2.) For other grad schools, since you don’t have that guarantee, you have to play the game again.
3.) The two games overlap enough (high grades, tough coursework, leadership EC’s), especially for the most common MD/PhD track, that point #2 pretty much nullifies point 1.
4.) So not only are HPME’s not at an advantage for dual degrees, the dual degree actually removes much of the point of being an HPME.