HTE@USC - how is it?

[BKN89]

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http://hte.usc.edu/

Can anybody give some firsthand information about what this program is like? I'm aware that the first class started in fall 2011 so it should be getting to the end of the first year.

How doable is the workload on top of your medical school work? Is the program well managed and executed? What sort of background are you expected to have going into it?

I'm asking because I am seriously considering applying to this, so I'd love to see what those already in it are thinking.

 

[ShenanigansMD]

Haha I asked this in a previous thread, it looks pretty awesome to me. I'm totally applying to it right now, but I gotta get a USC interview first.

EDIT: I hate giving away my personal info, since I feel like I'll be persecuted by Big Brother or something while I apply, but I'm an engineer applying to this which is why I'm super interested.

 

[ur2l8]

I think it's crazy some people (probably most people on here) are from the West Coast and California. To me this is the land of bikini-clad women, cocaine penthouse parties and drug busts (movie Blow probably influencing this), Arnold Schwarzenegger, casinos, no racism, fat shaming, Stanford, expensive condos and an expensive place to live in general, 90210, The Hills, and did I mention attractive women and Arizona State University girls.

How true are the Cali stereotypes?

 

[argama]

I think it's crazy some people (probably most people on here) are from the West Coast and California. To me this is the land of bikini-clad women, cocaine penthouse parties and drug busts (movie Blow probably influencing this), Arnold Schwarzenegger, casinos, no racism, fat shaming, Stanford, expensive condos and an expensive place to live in general, 90210, The Hills, and did I mention attractive women and Arizona State University girls.

How true are the Cali stereotypes?

^depends who you hang out with.

As for HTE@USC, a friend of mine got into that last year. He turned down some better schools like UCSD, Northwestern, Cornell, and a few others. All I know is that you work with the Viterbi School of Engineering with research and bioengineering. I think they work at both the med school campus and the undergrad campus where Viterbi is at.