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How do you find out which schools prepare you the best/have the highest scores to get into specialties?
How do you find out which schools prepare you the best/have the highest scores to get into specialties?
Harvard, Columbia, UPenn, UCLA
One word. . . deceptive. Some SDNers from these schools have complained that students with slightly lower board scores yet have a higher class ranking have been able to match into really great specialties. . . much better than the SDNers themselves.
Conclusion: you can distinguish yourself in a less competitive school: more extracurriculars, higher class ranking, similar board scores. You also add to the diversity of the specialty program, which puts you into a competitive advantage with applicants from competitive schools.
Have a good point. If you are from a less competive school but you rank #1 in your class then you are better off then someone from Harvard that is rank #18 in their class for example. So if you rank high and have high scores you should be fine..
The big name helps however when you don't rank really high in your class, like if someone was ranked #25 in harvard they might still be able to get into a speciality program b/c of the name or so I have been told anyways...
Have a good point. If you are from a less competive school but you rank #1 in your class then you are better off then someone from Harvard that is rank #18 in their class for example. So if you rank high and have high scores you should be fine..
The big name helps however when you don't rank really high in your class, like if someone was ranked #25 in harvard they might still be able to get into a speciality program b/c of the name or so I have been told anyways...
The difference is over half of our students have no desire to specialize and come here for our superior clinical education.
this year 39 students from PACIFIC are going into specialty programs, this does not include AEGD's and GPR's everyone that applied to endo programs from our school got in. Just thought I'd post this since PACIFIC is usually known as a place you avoid for specialty when in fact almost everyone who wanted to specialize from our school got in. The difference is over half of our students have no desire to specialize and come here for our superior clinical education.
I'd have to agree that if you work hard it can be done from anywhere.
Another thing you may want to consider is if the school you attend does not have that specialty you want to go into you will likely be able to gain much more hands on experience while in the pre doc program - there's no one else to do it but you!
My favorite things about these arguments are that one group claims having no specialties at the school is an advantage, and the other side claims having all the specialties at the school is an advantage.
No idea which one is right, but you think they would be mutually exclusive.