Match List for various schools

there is a large thread for this in allo.l

Match lists are not a good tool for evaluating schools--i.e., finding the right school for you. I recommend that you not look at match lists until you've essentially completed the admissions process and have been accepted to one or more schools. Match lists are not good indicators of the quality of a school, and they conceal more than they reveal. The fundamental problem is that you don't know the preferences and credentials of the people who matched; further, you're completely oblivious to other extenuating factors that might have affected the rank lists of med school graduates (e.g., family). Let me give you an example: your family lives in Atlanta, GA, and your wife just got a good job at company X in Atlanta. You attended Emory medical school and you would like to go into cardiology. You graduated at the top of your class and aced the national boards--without a doubt, you could go anywhere in the country for residency in internal medicine, including the heavy hitters in the Northeast (Hopkins, Harvard, UPenn, etc.) But as it turns out, Emory has a solid internal medicine department--reputable but not in the same class as the programs in the NE--and the cardiology fellowship at Emory is ranked among the very best in the country. What would you do? Would you rank Hopkins or UPenn ahead of Emory because of the difference in national reputation and all the privileges that attend this reputation, or would you rank Emory ahead of these programs, because of other factors (your family, your wife, your career goal)? I'm willing to bet that you would opt for the latter.

This is the problem with match lists: you don't know all the details surrounding the match.

Well said Elias. I think in one post, you basically summarized why match lists are essentially pointless. I think the only exception would be if a school didn't match more than a handful of students at competitive residencies (ortho, derm, etc) on a yearly basis. Then you might become a bit skeptical about the program.

Alexander99 said:

Well said Elias. I think in one post, you basically summarized why match lists are essentially pointless. I think the only exception would be if a school didn't match more than a handful of students at competitive residencies (ortho, derm, etc) on a yearly basis. Then you might become a bit skeptical about the program.

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I wouldn't go so far as to call match lists "pointless," but you do have to look at them in the right way -- not in an individualized sense like, "oooh, this school had a cardio match at JHU, so I will be able to do that." I think they are best utilized in examining patterns over a period of multiple years, where you can average out these particular statistical variations like the case mentioned above.

If you're destined for great things, you'll achieve them regardless of where you go to school.

i've got penn states 2003 match list...or at least part of it...i'm too tired to type up most of it..here's a tidbit....

Penn State Match List

Plastic Surgery:
UC Davis
Hershey
Texas A & M

Radiology:
Albert Einstein Med Ctr
Drexel
Univ Maryland Med Ctr
N Shore U Manhasset NY
Hershey/Penn State

Dermatology:
UCSD
Mayo
Baylor
Hershey/Penn State
Emory

Pediatrics:
UC San Diego
Stanford
University Health Center of Pittsburgh
St. Louis Children?s
St. Vincent
Georgetown
Dartmouth
SUNY HSC Brooklyn
Eastern VA Med School

Ortho:
Yale-New Haven
Hershey
Emory
St. Mary?s Med Ctr?CA

Obst-Gyn:
UC Davis
Johns Hopkins
Beth Israel
U Wisconsin

Neurology:
Cleveland Clinic
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and others, plus some anesthesiology, a bunch of surgery ones, etc etc...