What are the best D.O. Schools?

There are no real rankings. Most students going to DO schools don't seem to care much about the rankings either.

The best DO school is the one that accepts you 😉

mizzoudude said:

Anyone have a link to a ranking?

Or in their opinion..top three schools? This might be an obvious question..but i don't know..thanks all.

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Top Three:

1)KCOM
2)Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine
3)ATSU- Kirksville, MO Campus

🙄
😀

mx_599 said:

Lyrics game🙁no googling)

"I’m a model you know what I mean.
And I do my little turn on the catwalk."

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Right Said Fred
"Too Sexy"

Man that takes me back...
damn I hated that song! 😀

subtle1epiphany said:

Right Said Fred
"Too Sexy"

Man that takes me back...
damn I hated that song! 😀

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....so sexy it hurts

hehehe
okay...I need a new lyric

mizzoudude said:

Anyone have a link to a ranking?

Or in their opinion..top three schools? This might be an obvious question..but i don't know..thanks all.

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Try US news & world report primary care rankings.

In my opinion:

OSU-COM & TCOM are the best 2 schools

OSUdoc08 said:

Try US news & world report primary care rankings.

In my opinion:

OSU-COM & TCOM are the best 2 schools

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Never woulda saw that coming....

Top schools, IMHO, include: msucom, osucom, unt, ccom, pcom and umdnjcom. all of them are "good," per-se...
take a long look at match lists, curriculum descriptions, clinical rotations, and hospital affiliations and come up with your own. what we think doesn't matter much to you.
location may also affect such a list, but personally, as long as its not in the sticks, i dont really care.

I found some data on usnews from which I calculated a competitive score for schools that responded to usnews and provided data. Competitive scores are obviously not an indicator of how good the schools are, just how hard they are to get into. I thought there might be a limited degree of correlation, however, so I'm providing these data. I read somewhere that the competitive score is calculated thusly:

CS = GPA*10 + MCAT(combined)

The max is 4.0*10 + 45 = 85

The highest score I found for average matriculants was Washington University with average competitive score of about 75.

As for D.O. schools:
format: school, average competitive score, average gpa, average combined MCAT

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TCOM 62.1 3.54 26.7
OSUCOM 61.7 3.56 26.1
UMDNJ 61.2 3.48 26.4
COMP 61.2 3.48 26.4
AZCOM 61.0 3.40 27.0
DMU-COM 60.6 3.54 25.2
MSUCOM 60.3 3.51 25.2
KCOM 60.2 3.47 25.5
TUCOM-MI 59.9 3.44 25.5
NSUCOM 58.7 3.44 24.3
NYCOM 58.2 3.42 24.0
UNECOM 57.4 3.31 24.3
PCOM 57.4 3.31 24.3
WVSOM 57.1 3.43 22.8
VCOM 56.9 3.44 22.5
PCSOM 54.7 3.25 22.2

not listed - data not provided to usnews
TUCOM-LV
KCUMB-COM
OU-COM
CCOM
LECOM