Competitiveness of Southern California programs

[dstone3]

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I'm looking to do 2 away rotations in Southern California and want to find some programs that I'd be competitive in when it comes to applying to programs later on. Can anyone give me some input on what programs are highly competitive versus those that are less competitive?

PS I'm primarily interested in university based programs

 

[dstone3]

I gleaned this off another post which said that for reputation, the top ones are Stanford, UCSF, UCLA, Children's LA, and Oakland. Other programs that I've heard are great but aren't as well known: Harbor UCLA, Davis, Children's Orange County, and UCSD.

Anyone agree or disagree?

 

[schmootz]

According to U.S. News & World Report's Best Children's Hospitals for General Pediatrics, the top Children's Hospitals in California for 2008 are as follows:
9.) CHLA
12.) Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, Calif.
16.) Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, Los Angeles
20.) UCSF Children's Hospital, San Francisco
http://www.usnews.com/directories/h.../name+/metro_area+/zip+/distance+/detail+less

 

[schmootz]

I should also point out that all California Peds programs are presumably relatively competitive because they're geographically desirable. In my humble opinion, you can't go wrong with the training you'll receive at most of the California programs from the southland (UCSD, Loma Linda, UCI/CHOC, UCLA, CHLA, LAC+USC, Harbor-UCLA, Kaiser So Cal) to Northern California (UC Davis, Children's Hospital Oakland, UCSF, Stanford, UCSF-Fresno, Kaiser Oakland).