A Noteworthy Admissions Year
Kristin Adams
Pat Basu
Ashish Bhimani
Erica Delgado
Manu Goyal
Michael Ogilvie
Geoff Oxnard
Cory Schulte
Kate Thompson
While the national applicant pool increased by 5%, the Pritzker pool increased by 13%—with 6,800 AMCAS applications and 3,827 completed secondary applications— a positive sign that more and more applicants are choosing Pritzker.
Special recognition for this successful admissions season should be given to our senior students on the Admissions Committee: Kristin Adams, Pat Basu, Ashish Bhimani, Erica Delgado, Manu Goyal, Mike Ogilvie, Geoff Oxnard, Cory Schulte, and Kate Thompson. These students took significant leadership roles for the interviews, including hosting lunches, leading tours, contributing to revisits from accepted students, and providing invaluable contributions to the admissions decision deliberations. In addition, the Co-Chairs of the Admissions Subcommittee on Student Hosting (Ed Gometz and Katie Bekeny) played a key role, as did the many students who opened their homes to overnight hosting and helped the applicants feel welcome and supported. Close to half of the total Pritzker student body participates in the admissions process; this year 193 students, drawn from all four classes, contributed by providing the applicants with an insightful look at life at Pritzker and supplying thoughtful and thorough feedback to the admissions committee. Finally, 84 faculty from a wide variety of academic and medical disciplines and at various stages in their careers participated in the interviews, demonstrating important institutional values and offering seasoned comments to aid deliberations of the Admissions Committee members, who thoughtfully considered and discussed each of the 532 inteviewed applicants.
The result: another extraordinary group of future Pritzker students and alums!
