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I've been looking through the match lists of a few Top 20 schools looking for ways to justify the $120k extra tuition it would take me to go there, and comparing these with mid-tier schools makes it difficult to justify the benefit. Northwestern, for example, hardly matches anyone to ENT, and BostonU matched like 7 people this year. Actually, if you add up all the competitive residencies (Ortho, ENT, derm, Uro, IR) for a few Top 20 schools (NYU, Mich, Sinai, Pitt, UCSD) and compare the proportion to some good mid-tier privates there is only a marginal benefit from what I've seen.
True, the quality of residencies is a lot higher for Top 20, but to justify $340k in COA I would really need to aim for a higher paying specialty and not just a high ranking pediatrics residency, for example. I also realize that match lists are affected by the preferences of the students, but I find it hard to believe that there aren't more people in the Top 20 aiming for the most desired residencies, which is more or less consistent every year. Can anyone who attends a Top 20 school verify that it is easier for students to get competitive residencies if they really wanted to? And that many just aren't aiming for them for personal reasons?
True, the quality of residencies is a lot higher for Top 20, but to justify $340k in COA I would really need to aim for a higher paying specialty and not just a high ranking pediatrics residency, for example. I also realize that match lists are affected by the preferences of the students, but I find it hard to believe that there aren't more people in the Top 20 aiming for the most desired residencies, which is more or less consistent every year. Can anyone who attends a Top 20 school verify that it is easier for students to get competitive residencies if they really wanted to? And that many just aren't aiming for them for personal reasons?