Some of us need all the help we can get!😛
Some? For heaven's sake, we're med students! You mean MOST!
Our value as bachelors are at an all time low for the next 4 years (and decrease further as we enter residency).
Some of us need all the help we can get!😛
Sure, some people want a name that carries "weight" with their patients and/or women at the bar. UPenn indeed carries weight in the medical community and those who know anything about medical schools which is where it actually counts (positive). I'm guessing you go on name mostly, though. I see pretension and ivory-towerness as hindrances to interacting with my patients (a negative), not as a plus but note I plan on working with underserved pops.
That's so messed up😛
I really hope that was just a pseudo t-shirt image and that they don't sell that in the student store or something😛
Post the bottom 10 schools. Who's the worst.
Post the bottom 10 schools. Who's the worst.
Hah! Vandy, that's what you get for waitlisting me while UChicago let me in. Suckers. And now I can say I'll be attending a top-15 school...hmm. 😀
rme04, that's a really interesting list. I'd be pissed if I were an admissions person at NYU -- not such a great trend, esp if they are #34 this year like someone else said. Of course, these rankings are all kind of stupid...
That's so messed up😛
I really hope that was just a pseudo t-shirt image and that they don't sell that in the student store or something😛
That's so messed up😛
I really hope that was just a pseudo t-shirt image and that they don't sell that in the student store or something😛
They actually do (did?) have a "Not Penn State" t-shirt at the Penn bookstore. It's grey, with a gigantic P (half navy/half crimson) and the "not Penn State" portion written in a circle around it.
I bought it for my mom (as a joke). She got so tired of explaining to people that I wasn't at Penn State but rather at Penn, she finally just started lying and telling people I was at Penn State. 😛 It works either way. Penn State has a much better reputation in my part of the state anyway (where football is king).
hahahhaa this is funny and exactly what i said. a variation at least. looks like the top ten by '10 thing isn't working. but then again i must admit its gonna be super hard for anyone new to crack the top 10. its cemented.
Aw, I go to school in Philly, and I love it here. 🙂
I go to school in philly... Philly would be a great city if it weren't for its really, very, extremely miserable people.
Penn's area is nice, right?😕No offense, but I would hate Philly too if I lived anywhere close to Drexel Med.
Penn's area is nice, right?😕
Hahahaha...well just look at the peer assessment and residency director scores, and you'll see Vandy beats UChicago!!! 4.0/4.1 (Chicago) vs. 4.1/4.2 (Vandy)!! 🙂 And I agree, the rankings ARE stupid, but kind of fun to look at and argue over petty things that really won't matter in the end.
Penn's area (University City) is very nice. It's in a completely different part of town from Drexel Med, but it is directly next to Drexel Ugrad.
University City (Next to West Philly) = Penn and Drexel
East Falls (North in Fairmount Park) = Drexel Med (really crappy area in my opinion)
West Philly is pretty disgusting. You'll find that over 75% of Penn grad students live in Center City because of this.
Penn's area is not "very nice," unless your idea of a "very nice" day is a day when you get mugged or shot.
West Philly is pretty disgusting. You'll find that over 75% of Penn grad students live in Center City because of this.
Penn's area is not "very nice," unless your idea of a "very nice" day is a day when you get mugged or shot.
West Philly is pretty disgusting. You'll find that over 75% of Penn grad students live in Center City because of this.
Penn's area is not "very nice," unless your idea of a "very nice" day is a day when you get mugged or shot.
I'm not picking a fight with you at all, and I agree that both schools are good, but your post made me wonder something. Are any of these differences between 4.0 and 4.2 or whatever statistically significant WHATsoever? I've not seen a lot of the "guts" of the USNews ranking system and I can't help but wonder if the difference between 4.0 and 4.1 (if they, say, handed residency directors a 1-5 scale and said "rate these") is completely moot. Hmmm.....
Haha...I wasn't picking a fight--far from it (sorry if it sounded like that--guess my laugh in the beginning didnt help 🙂). That was my point...there is probably no difference between 0.2 points, and it's funny to see people argue over such petty differences. I'm a fan of 'every med school is good so let's all be friends' =).
West Philly is pretty disgusting. You'll find that over 75% of Penn grad students live in Center City because of this.
Penn's area is not "very nice," unless your idea of a "very nice" day is a day when you get mugged or shot.
True, then again students from Columbia probably run to West Philly for safety after being chased through Washington Heights😛
Haha...I wasn't picking a fight--far from it (sorry if it sounded like that--guess my laugh in the beginning didnt help 🙂). That was my point...there is probably no difference between 0.2 points, and it's funny to see people argue over such petty differences. I'm a fan of 'every med school is good so let's all be friends' =).
Haha, I knew what you meant. I didn't think you were trying to actually mean anything confrontational. 👍 Here's to schools on the mainland US (sorry UH, no beef with you either).
I do wonder about USNews statistics more and more the longer I go through this process, though...
Many assume I'll choose UMich because they believe its the best medical school in the country.
On the other hand, UMich is a hell of a program and lot better than University of Texas San Antonio or UT-Galveston, which are pretty much the "best school ever" if you're living in central TX (where I'm originally from). Regional differences do play a massive role so I wonder if where I'll end up practicing is near where I go to medical school...
That's so messed up😛
I really hope that was just a pseudo t-shirt image and that they don't sell that in the student store or something😛
So once again, does location not factor at all into what medical schools you applied to? I don't understand the philly bashing but then the enthusiasm for hearing back from penn med? just curious haha
Kind of a random tangent, and I get that there isn't a ton of mobility on this list, but has anyone followed the list for the last ~5 yrs.? That would really interest me... are there any schools that are strongly on the upswing/strongly on the downswing?
West Philly is pretty disgusting. You'll find that over 75% of Penn grad students live in Center City because of this.
Penn's area is not "very nice," unless your idea of a "very nice" day is a day when you get mugged or shot.
I'm shocked sometimes how little people know about Texas med schools - do you have any idea how many times I told people that I got into Baylor and they replied, "Ugh, why would you want to live in Waco? UT is much better anyway."No that proves my point. They're all regionally the "best ever" but USNews reflects the difference between a UMich (11th last year) and UTSA or UTG (unranked).
Kind of a random tangent, and I get that there isn't a ton of mobility on this list, but has anyone followed the list for the last ~5 yrs.? That would really interest me... are there any schools that are strongly on the upswing/strongly on the downswing?
Baylor isn't affiliated anymore. Not since the 60s (but I could have that date wrong)It's an understandable mistake though. I always thought affiliated med schools were at least somewhat near their colleges (like within walking or short driving distance).
In fact, I've interviewed in some places and still don't know where those med schools are located relative to their undergrads😛
along with the rest of the Ivy's/Johns Hopkins
I wonder how many premeds get an erection while reading the rankings. It's gotta be a lot.

Can someone explain to me the motivation for such fascination with someone else's opinion of a college they've never attended?
Yes there are special modified strip clubs where they go to look at powerpoints of each school's numbers.
These are all of the USNEWS rankings of research med schools over the past years that they they ranked schools. The schools are listed in order of the 2004 rankings.
2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1995 1993
Harvard 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Wash U 3 2 3 4 3 4 3 5 4 5 5
Hopkins 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Duke 6 4 5 3 5 6 4 3 5 6 6
U Penn 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 7 6 7 7
UCSF 5 6 6 7 7 6 7 4 6 4 4
U Mich 9 7 8 9 12 10 9 9 9 11
Columbia 10 8 7 6 5 8 7 8 8 8 8
Stanford 8 8 11 9 10 10 9 10 10 9 9
U Wash 7 10 10 11 9 9 13 13 11 9 9
Yale 11 10 9 8 7 5 4 6 3 3 3
Cornell 14 12 11 11 14 13 9 12 12 17
Baylor 13 13 13 11 12 15 13 15 15 15
UCLA 11 14 13 14 10 10 12 11 13 12
U Pitt 16 15 17 20 19 24 19 17 17 18
Vanderbilt 1715 16 16 16 16 15 14 14 14
UCSD 14 17 20 24 23 22 19 20 18 13
UTSW 17 17 17 17 19 19 17 21 20
Emory 20 19 20 22 19 19 21 19 24
Northwestern 20 20 22 20 22 21 25
UNC 23 20 22 24 23 22
Mayo 23 22 15 15 15 14 24 24 22
U Chicago 19 22 19 17 18 18 18 16 16 16
Case 20 24 22 17 17 16 15 18 19 19
U Alabama 23 25 28 27 26 24 25
UVa 26 25 27 28 30 28
U Wisc 26 25 31 30 31 32
MSSM 32 28 22 23 23 27
Iowa 28 28 30 29 32 30
NYU 32 30 26 24 27 24 21 23 22 20
U Colorado 30 31 31 33 33 33
U Rochester 30 32 28 31 28 30
USC 32 32 36 43 40 36
Dartmouth 35 34 34 34 36 41
OHSU 35 34 35 35 39 36
U Minn 38 34 36 35 33 36
Yeshiva/Einstein 38 37 31 32 28 28 24 22 21
OSU 37 38 44 40 40 39
Indiana 45 39 47 43 40 41
Tufts 43 40 43 37 36 41
U Florida 46 40 44 40 44 45
Wake 41 40 39 43 50 45
Boston U 28 43 39 37 33 33
Brown 40 43 39 40 44
Georgetown 46 43 43 44 39
U Cinn 41 43 44 48 40 45
U Maryland 43 43 39 43 44 48
Utah xx 48 38 39 36 33
UCD 46 49
Jefferson xx 50 48 50 48
MCW xx 50 50 50
U Miami xx 50 49 48 50
UCI 46 53
U Mass 50 53 48 48 44 41
UT-Houston xx 53
StonyBrook xx 56
Tulane xx 56
UMDNJ xx RWJ 56
U Conn xx 59
VCU/MCV xx 60
This was dug up from the deep, dark corners of Page 1 of this thread....haha guess you skipped to page 2
Did the info change over for the primary care rankings as well? I'm interested to see what the top 10 will be this year, they seem to tend to shuffle a lot more than the research rankings do.