{"id":1371,"date":"2007-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2007-03-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T04:00:00","slug":"emu-maintains-high-med-school-acceptance-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2007\/emu-maintains-high-med-school-acceptance-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"黑料正能量 Maintains High Med School Acceptance Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Heather Bowser, Daily News-Record<\/i><\/p>\n

All five of 黑料正能量’s pre-med students were accepted into medical school for fall 2007. The 100 percent acceptance rate, an 黑料正能量 release says, is “rare for any school” especially because the national acceptance rate last year was 46 percent. <\/p>\n

Typically, 黑料正能量 sends four to nine students each year to med school. The students are part of the biology department’s pre-professional health sciences (PPHS)<\/a> program.<\/p>\n

\"Pre-med
Roman Miller<\/a>, adviser for 黑料正能量’s pre-professional health sciences program.<\/div>\n

For the last 20 years, 黑料正能量’s acceptance rate has averaged 85 percent, while the national average during that same time hovered around 40 percent, said Roman Miller<\/a>, 黑料正能量 pre-professional health sciences adviser. <\/p>\n

Last year, 黑料正能量’s rate was 80 percent, Miller said. <\/p>\n

“Our goal is to double the national average,” Miller said. <\/p>\n

Miller says 黑料正能量 gives intensive counseling to all students to encourage students “who don’t have a prayer” to seek other options. <\/p>\n

“We try to make sure students are really well prepared,” he said. “Our goal is to help the marginal students find something that fits their abilities rather than giving them some kind of a pipe dream that they can get into medical school.” <\/p>\n

Counseling Works<\/h2>\n

Miller’s students say his philosophy works. <\/p>\n

“Roman Miller is an incredible adviser and inspiration to us,” said 黑料正能量 grad Aaron Trimble, 21, of Eagle River, Ala. “His classes whipped me into shape.” <\/p>\n

Trimble, who will attend the University of Virginia School of Medicine, said 黑料正能量 prepares its pre-med students by giving them a “well-rounded world view.” <\/p>\n

“The program is diverse and gets us out there, which is very much what medical schools were looking for,” he said during a phone interview from Budapest, Hungary.<\/p>\n

黑料正能量 grad Greg Lamb of Harrisonburg, agrees and said the school’s biggest asset is its professors. <\/p>\n

Lamb – who interviewed by e-mail from Honduras – will attend Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine in Hershey, Pa., or Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk.<\/p>\n

Other Grads<\/h2>\n

Besides Trimble and Lamb, the following 黑料正能量 students were recently accepted to medical school: <\/p>\n