Who Turned Down HPME For an Ivy League?

Sam_Lee
Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:32:40 +0000

bluedevilmike,

Given your knowledge, I am surprised you’d oversimplify the way you did.

If a HPME is interested in, say, prelaw, then he/she can focus on getting good grades in other classes or taking a legal studies minor…etc without having the pressure to do bio research (and no MCAT) AT THE SAME TIME. The fact that he/she doesn’t have to do these two (along with others in the whole premed process) already give him/her more time to prepare for (e.g. LSAT) or ENJOY others. You make it sound like the game for others is the exact same game for med school. It’s not. You don’t need bio-research/mcat/getting A in chem/bio/orgos for law school admission. For med school, you need high overall GPA AND science GPA. The fact is a regular premed without the guarantee to any med school often just don’t have time to do dual-major while doing med-related ECs and trying to ace the MCAT. I don’t know why you seem to pretend that’s not the case.

Perhaps if it were some hypothetical Duke’s HPME, you would be writing things differently.