Hey all, so my sister got into both and is needing some advice on making a decision. Any input is valuable! (assume that costs are comparable)
Is this a joke? Yale 100 times out of 90.
Don't be fooled by the fact that they are both "Ivies". Yale is WAY better hands down. Brown is a newer school and and just doesn't have the same resources/prestige/opportunities.
I wouldn't say "WAY" better. That's hyperbole to me. IMO both schools will adequately prepare you to be a physician.
But the purpose of the thread wasn't "which of these two schools are accredited".
You should tell you sister that Yale just dropped in the rankings. Who would want to go there? Eww
US NEWS RANKINGS MEDICAL SCHOOLS - RECENTLY RELEASED 2013
Research -
Yale # 7
Brown # 35
Primary Care -
Brown # 24
Yale # 74 (shameful for an ivy, really)
Average for
Brown - 29.5
Yale - 40.5
Brown beats Yale. However, the Yale system rocks....although New Haven really, really sucks..
Congrats to your sister!
US NEWS RANKINGS MEDICAL SCHOOLS - RECENTLY RELEASED 2013
Research -
Yale # 7
Brown # 35
Primary Care -
Brown # 24
Yale # 74 (shameful for an ivy, really)
Average for
Brown - 29.5
Yale - 40.5
Brown beats Yale. However, the Yale system rocks....although New Haven really, really sucks..
Congrats to your sister!
But the purpose of the thread wasn't "which of these two schools are accredited".
not sure if serious...
Primary Care rankings mean jack. When people refer to a top 5, top 25, etc. school they go by the research rankings. Yale is a top 10 school and Brown is a top 40 school.
Looking at the two schools' respective matchlists it is no contest; Yale blows Brown out of the water. Both schools gradated ~100 people last year but looking at the most competitive specialties, Yale beat Brown
5-1 in Derm
5-2 in Plastics
4-2 in Radonc
5-3 in Ophtho
4-1 in Neurosurgery
1-0 in ENT
4-1 in Rads
3-1 in Gas
and the schools tied 4-4 in Ortho
http://brown.edu/academics/medical/about/match
http://medstation.yale.edu/enrollment/www/2011matchspec.pdf
forgot to link urology and ortho!
not sure if serious...
Primary Care rankings mean jack. When people refer to a top 5, top 25, etc. school they go by the research rankings. Yale is a top 10 school and Brown is a top 40 school.
Looking at the two schools' respective matchlists it is no contest; Yale blows Brown out of the water. Both schools gradated ~100 people last year but looking at the most competitive specialties, Yale beat Brown
5-1 in Derm
5-2 in Plastics
4-2 in Radonc
5-3 in Ophtho
4-1 in Neurosurgery
1-0 in ENT
4-1 in Rads
3-1 in Gas
and the schools tied 4-4 in Ortho
http://brown.edu/academics/medical/about/match
http://medstation.yale.edu/enrollment/www/2011matchspec.pdf
But the purpose of the thread wasn't "which of these two schools are accredited".
I said 4-4 in ortho.
Brown did beat Yale 1-0 in Urology but come on who really wants to fondle balls all day long 😛
not sure if serious...
Primary Care rankings mean jack. When people refer to a top 5, top 25, etc. school they go by the research rankings. Yale is a top 10 school and Brown is a top 40 school.
Looking at the two schools' respective matchlists it is no contest; Yale blows Brown out of the water. Both schools gradated ~100 people last year but looking at the most competitive specialties, Yale beat Brown
5-1 in Derm
5-2 in Plastics
4-2 in Radonc
5-3 in Ophtho
4-1 in Neurosurgery
1-0 in ENT
4-1 in Rads
3-1 in Gas
and the schools tied 4-4 in Ortho
http://brown.edu/academics/medical/about/match
http://medstation.yale.edu/enrollment/www/2011matchspec.pdf
As a person deciding between Pitt and Yale, I was wondering about Yale's primary care rankings. What do primary care rankings even really represent? Pitt is top 20 for both but Yale is top 10 and top 100. Should that even matter? If so, how would you compare these two schools?
I haven't checked he methodology for this year, but in the past the rankings for primary care were determined heavily by the number of people that go into primary care at a given school. This is a very poor indicator of the quality of pc related care, and some might argue that if Nything it suggests that students can't match into more competitive specialties (such as flat earths post)
Harvard matched 43% of their class into "primary care" this past year, University of Washington matched almost 2/3 last year into primary care. It has nothing to do with whether they couldn't have matched into something else, but simply reflects preference.