Does Stanford deserve to be ranked #2?

[seracus]

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Over the past 20 years, Stanford has consistently been ranked somewhere between 7 and 12. In 2010, the medical school was ranked 11.

http://www.adminplan.northwestern.edu/ir/data-book/v44/1.08-usnews-med-rankings.pdf

Now Stanford has oddly jumped up to #2. Has the school changed that much in four years? Or are Stanford's volatile rankings likely to fall back down over the next five years? Is the momentary #2 rank simply there to mix up the rankings a bit and sell more magazines?

 

[circulus vitios]

People actually care about these rankings? lol

 

[GopherMD]

Who cares?

 

[as1212559]

The injustice of it all

 

[sinombre]

lol

Only on SDN.

 

[Daodejing]

It's not odd. A more fitting descriptor would be irrelevant. Alternatively, maybe you could get Stanford to justify its vaulted ranking by asking it to do something about the healthcare crisis?

 

[SoulinNeed]

LOL!!!!

These forums, boy.

 

[as1212559]

Strong join date though. Is subtle troll subtle?

 

[cookiemonsters]

Outside of Harvard, which is in a league of its own for how much original work its employees publish, the top 10 or so are more or less identical over the long haul.

 

[mcloaf]

I stopped reading at "deserve".

 

[erutha95]

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[MetalGearFox]

Over the past 20 years, Stanford has consistently been ranked somewhere between 7 and 12. In 2010, the medical school was ranked 11.

http://www.adminplan.northwestern.edu/ir/data-book/v44/1.08-usnews-med-rankings.pdf

Now Stanford has oddly jumped up to #2. Has the school changed that much in four years? Or are Stanford's volatile rankings likely to fall back down over the next five years? Is the momentary #2 rank simply there to mix up the rankings a bit and sell more magazines?

I like how your thesis for this thread sucks if you just look at Stanford's 2012 and 2011 ranks, which were 4 and 5, respectively. But you still want to make a thread about it so you just decided to leave that part out and mention 2010 instead. Weak. Both you and this thread/topic as a whole. 👎

 

[NickNaylor]

The relevant question is: what do premeds (or USNWR for that matter) think they know that qualifies them to rank schools in any way?

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[MusicJunkie]

I don't get the methodology, quite frankly.

And since medical school attended is less important than so many other factors when it comes to residency, I don't get why we should even care.

 

[RockinRoll]

Yes!