Who Turned Down HPME For an Ivy League?

Sam_Lee
Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:17:28 +0000

1) Law schools care about the overall GPA–one GPA; I doubt law school adcom pay particular attention to bio/chem grades. A person with 3.4 (or whatever relatively low) in sciences but 3.6-3.7 overall is still very competitive for law school admission, even the top ones. I doubt that’s the case for med school. There’s no such thing as “science GPA” to them.

2) You list bunch of things that are related to the very game regular premeds play. HPMEs can do things that seem totally unrelevant to or “useless” for the game. How about taking a language program in Italy? That’s the choice they can enjoy.

3) I am not even gonna argue if LSAT is really that piece of cake since I don’t know anything about it. But why narrowly focus on test prep? There are many many other things students can do. How about sailing class at NU? How I wish I had done that when I were there!

4) see 1) through 3)…

5) & 6). Sorry, the reason I felt I had to put it out there was that I recalled how you wrote “don’t give up the excellent education at Yale or Princeton”…“Yale gives you the premeir undergrad education…”. It just gave me the feeling you were implying the education at NU was subpar. If you were just telling the OP to go to Yale/Princeton because how they were their “dream” schools without reference to quality of education and give credit where it’s due (see 1 through 3 above), then maybe you’d sound more objective.