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I heard that Feinberg accepts 70%, but that seems questionable given that not THAT many people have been accepted so far on this thread and Feinberg's reported matriculation rate (18%) seems pretty average. Thoughts?
 
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Have any MSTPers heard back today (either deferred from the first wave or more recently interviewed)? Portal is down and I'm s t r e s s e d lol
 
Got hit with that post interview R, which means I must have really blown it because it seems like everyone else was WL or A, pretty disappointed because this was a school I was really excited about. Goodluck to everyone and congrats to those WL and accepted! Things don’t work out the way you want to so be grateful for what you’re given
 
Accepted. The ghost page conspiracy theories were a bunch of cr*p. I am pretty sure they have some separate program/interview process that drags their post-acceptance rate up. Everybody interviewing at Feinberg has the stats to get into any medical school in the country... with uncertainty surrounding the new traffic rules I am sure there will be some waitlist movement. Good luck to all. Peace and love. Also, their application portal is down.
 
pianoguy123 said:
Accepted. The ghost page conspiracy theories were a bunch of cr*p. I am pretty sure they have some separate program/interview process that drags their post-acceptance rate up. Everybody interviewing at Feinberg has the stats to get into any medical school in the country... with uncertainty surrounding the new traffic rules I am sure there will be some waitlist movement. Good luck to all. Peace and love. Also, their application portal is down.
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I think it may be their BS/MD program. I think those applicants are counted twice or something like that (just like with Brown, their actual acceptance is like half of what is reported on the spreadsheet)
 
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polain said:
Seems from your post history that Northwestern may be a cutthroat environment (as opposed to collaborative), particularly during clinical years. Can you speak on that? Any changes since then?

Also seems that you picked Northwestern over Vandy - what played into your decision?
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Not sure which of my previous post made you think NU is a cutthroat environment, but my experience has been always collaborative. M1/2 year is P/F as you know so there's no point of being cutthroat. There are classmates making study guides, anki card decks, etc. Upper classmen also help out with these as well. M3 year is graded but even then, 35-60% people end up honoring a given clerkship, and you're not graded against each other, so there's no point of being a competitive gunner. Most of my classmates I worked with as co students on rotations were very pleasant to work with. I haven't had a gunner co student but residents/attendings are good at recognizing them as well. They were medical students at one point after all.

NU over Vandy bc of city environment, better financial aid package, no need for car
 
FeinMS said:
Not sure which of my previous post made you think NU is a cutthroat environment, but my experience has been always collaborative. M1/2 year is P/F as you know so there's no point of being cutthroat. There are classmates making study guides, anki card decks, etc. Upper classmen also help out with these as well. M3 year is graded but even then, 35-60% people end up honoring a given clerkship, and you're not graded against each other, so there's no point of being a competitive gunner. Most of my classmates I worked with as co students on rotations were very pleasant to work with. I haven't had a gunner co student but residents/attendings are good at recognizing them as well. They were medical students at one point after all.

NU over Vandy bc of city environment, better financial aid package, no need for car
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Thanks for taking the time to respond. I was alluding to a post “Northwestern Feinberg Environment”, which confused me a bit, but I suppose it’s a bit old.

One more q, how do you and students in general feel about grading during clinical years? How much do shelves/evals/luck weigh on one’s ability to receive honors/high pass? With step going P/F (and tbh I haven’t thought too much about this), I guess clinical grades would gain even more importance. But how arbitrary are they, if at all?
 
polain said:
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I was alluding to a post “Northwestern Feinberg Environment”, which confused me a bit, but I suppose it’s a bit old.

One more q, how do you and students in general feel about grading during clinical years? How much do shelves/evals/luck weigh on one’s ability to receive honors/high pass? With step going P/F (and tbh I haven’t thought too much about this), I guess clinical grades would gain even more importance. But how arbitrary are they, if at all?
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Each student has a very fair chance at honoring in clinical totally independent of other students. As a student, you’ll have a pretty good idea how you are doing in a clinical, which would impact whether you ask for an LoR if you were outstanding.
 
polain said:
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I was alluding to a post “Northwestern Feinberg Environment”, which confused me a bit, but I suppose it’s a bit old.

One more q, how do you and students in general feel about grading during clinical years? How much do shelves/evals/luck weigh on one’s ability to receive honors/high pass? With step going P/F (and tbh I haven’t thought too much about this), I guess clinical grades would gain even more importance. But how arbitrary are they, if at all?
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Grading in 3rd year is universally controversial in all medical schools. Just look at reddit medical school posts and you will see that most of the posts are complaining about 3rd year grading. They try to balance subjective (clinical eval) and objective (OSCE and shelf) components of the grades. Most clerkship are designed to compensate deficits in one area with others.

All I would say is that if you are a sociable and responsible person who is a team player and a good test taker, you won't have trouble with me grades.
 
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