Howard University Interview????

[jerome79]

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I got an email inviting me to a Howard University interview but I never sent the secondary in to them. Has anyone ever heard of something like this before?

 

[dr.z]

I got an email inviting me to a Howard University interview but I never sent the secondary in to them. Has anyone ever heard of something like this before?

I read that someone on SDN got the same stuff yesterday. I've heard they've accepted someone they never interviewed.

 

[DrSpongebob]

I got an email inviting me to a Howard University interview but I never sent the secondary in to them. Has anyone ever heard of something like this before?

Wow, and here I am one letter of interest and one letter of intent later waiting and praying and hoping for an interview.
NICE.

 

[njbmd]

I got an email inviting me to a Howard University interview but I never sent the secondary in to them. Has anyone ever heard of something like this before?

Hey there,
You can fill out a secondary when you come to interview. Go to the interview and be yourself. Howard uses the interview as a chance for the interviewer to get to know you. You should have one faculty interview and that faculty member is the one who will sell you to the admissions committee. Your interviewer will know what is in your application so be prepared to defend or explain anything that you wrote there. Don't use this time to try to explain bad grades or MCAT scores unless you are specifically asked about these things. If you did reseach, be prepared to explain your research.

This is also a time for you to look the school over. All of the classrooms are fully wired. The library is beautiful so go over there and look at that wonderful facility (much better than the old one). The hospital is pretty dismal but the clinical faculty is wonderful especially the surgery faculty who are world-class. The anatomy lab is well ventilated with good exhaust hoods.

The people of Howard are cooperative as opposed to competitive. This means that often you will have to be pro-active about your learning but you can excell at Howard. My USMLE scores were off the scale and I am in a very competitive General Surgery residency. In spite of any bad press that you may read and hear, Howard gets the job done. You will not be graduating from Howard without knowing how to practice medicine. When I started as an intern, I was miles ahead of my fellow interns because I had gone to Howard.

Good luck and go to that interview with an open mind and plenty of questions for the students and for the faculty. If you are going to spend the next four years at any medical school, you need to know everything about that school and if you think you can fit in there. Howard looks for students that they believe will be a good fit and who can excell in an Afrocentric medical curriculum.

Good luck again
njbmd 🙂

 

[nne97080]

I got an email inviting me to a Howard University interview but I never sent the secondary in to them. Has anyone ever heard of something like this before?

Yeah I think thats howards method. Goodluck hope to see you in the fall.

 

[nne97080]

I read that someone on SDN got the same stuff yesterday. I've heard they've accepted someone they never interviewed.

Did you actually meet the person? Sounds really like a a a lie!

 

[gebremaryam]

an Afrocentric medical curriculum.

What is Afrocentric medical curriculum?

 

[prospectivederm]

I do research at Howard Medical school, with one of the professors in the Microbiology department, so I always come in contact with some of the medical students. They are very helpful, much more cooperative than competitive. One even took me to look at the cadavers! I SO wanna go to Howard as I know it will be a great experience!

 

[UnderdogMD]

Hey there,
You can fill out a secondary when you come to interview. Go to the interview and be yourself. Howard uses the interview as a chance for the interviewer to get to know you. You should have one faculty interview and that faculty member is the one who will sell you to the admissions committee. Your interviewer will know what is in your application so be prepared to defend or explain anything that you wrote there. Don't use this time to try to explain bad grades or MCAT scores unless you are specifically asked about these things. If you did reseach, be prepared to explain your research.

This is also a time for you to look the school over. All of the classrooms are fully wired. The library is beautiful so go over there and look at that wonderful facility (much better than the old one). The hospital is pretty dismal but the clinical faculty is wonderful especially the surgery faculty who are world-class. The anatomy lab is well ventilated with good exhaust hoods.

The people of Howard are cooperative as opposed to competitive. This means that often you will have to be pro-active about your learning but you can excell at Howard. My USMLE scores were off the scale and I am in a very competitive General Surgery residency. In spite of any bad press that you may read and hear, Howard gets the job done. You will not be graduating from Howard without knowing how to practice medicine. When I started as an intern, I was miles ahead of my fellow interns because I had gone to Howard.

Good luck and go to that interview with an open mind and plenty of questions for the students and for the faculty. If you are going to spend the next four years at any medical school, you need to know everything about that school and if you think you can fit in there. Howard looks for students that they believe will be a good fit and who can excell in an Afrocentric medical curriculum.

Good luck again
njbmd 🙂

What type of person does well in an afrocentric curriculum? Serious question, I applied to Howard.

 

[njbmd]

What type of person does well in an afrocentric curriculum? Serious question, I applied to Howard.

This means that you will spend more time working on the diseases that are common to African-American and African populations. Think Infections diseases such as HIV & TB, hypertension, sickle cell anemia, coronary artery disease, end-stage renal failure, penetrating trauma and sarcoidosis. You won't spend loads of time learning to treat cystic fibrosis. Howard is a center for Sickle Cell and Minority Transplant research. The patient population that Howard treats is largely under-served poor, African-American, Latino and Vietnamese. You will be pretty comfortable with these groups when you are done. If you don't like this population, you are not going to like Howard. Howard medical students do loads of projects in the communities of Southeast DC and P.G. county Maryland.

 

[littlealex]

This might be an ignorant question, but do you have to be black or have a strong interest in the African community to apply?

Also is it true they have the lowest GPA/MCAT average in the country?

 

[Jolie South]

This might be an ignorant question, but do you have to be black or have a strong interest in the African community to apply?

I was wondering the same thing myself.

 

[UnderdogMD]

This might be an ignorant question, but do you have to be black or have a strong interest in the African community to apply?

Also is it true they have the lowest GPA/MCAT average in the country?

I hope you don't have to be black. I applied because I am committed to serving the underserved and have demonstrated it. As for your GPA question (from the MSAR) these three schools are the bottom three Morehouse, Howard, and Meharry with Meharry being lowest.

 

[Blanket]

Yeah, this is common. I went for the interview and learned that they hadn't received my rec letters (so my technically, my secondary was incomplete). But there were others who had not submitted secondaries yet. I really enjoyed interviewing there...the students (and other interviewers) were great. Admissions office is very disorganized (but nice) so be patient and just hope for best.

 

[Mr hawkings]

I hope you don't have to be black. I applied because I am committed to serving the underserved and have demonstrated it. As for your GPA question (from the MSAR) these three schools are the bottom three Morehouse, Howard, and Meharry with Meharry being lowest.

You dont have to be black.

The student population is more diverse than it looks at first glance. There are quite a few white, asian, middle eastern and hispanic people in almost every graduating class.
The international representation is particularly strong. For some reason, people not born in this country or have spent significant amount of time abroad seem to do well there.

 

[UVABranch]

I got an email inviting me to a Howard University interview but I never sent the secondary in to them. Has anyone ever heard of something like this before?

wish I could get an interview tomorrow 😉

 

[jochi1543]

This means that you will spend more time working on the diseases that are common to African-American and African populations. Think Infections diseases such as HIV & TB, hypertension, sickle cell anemia, coronary artery disease, end-stage renal failure, penetrating trauma and sarcoidosis. You won't spend loads of time learning to treat cystic fibrosis. Howard is a center for Sickle Cell and Minority Transplant research. The patient population that Howard treats is largely under-served poor, African-American, Latino and Vietnamese. You will be pretty comfortable with these groups when you are done. If you don't like this population, you are not going to like Howard. Howard medical students do loads of projects in the communities of Southeast DC and P.G. county Maryland.

NJBMD, how good is Howard with its rural programs? I don't think I'm very interested in working in the inner city, but I definitely have a strong interest in rural med. I know they want physicians who are ready to work with underserved populations, but do they prefer people who are more city-oriented in this definition or do they not care?

 

[inside_edition]

The international representation is particularly strong. For some reason, people not born in this country or have spent significant amount of time abroad seem to do well there.

could you expand on this?

 

[Mr hawkings]

could you expand on this?

I would estimate (based on observation) that at least 40% of the students are either immigrants or american citizens whos parents are immigrants.
Mostly Africans and Island people with few other ethnic groups sprinkled in.

Their policies are no more immigrant-friendly than any other school but they seem to have higher than normal numbers of immigrants. Dont know why.