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I was just wondering what is everyone's dream school as of now and why?
 
uva...really enjoyed undergrad and it's supposed to have the happiest med students ever.
 
I haven't visited any yet, so I can't tell. There's a small number of schools that are definitely not for me, but I'm pretty open-minded about the remaining 100+.😛
 
Dartmouth... great school, good reputation, good residency matches and oh i like snow
 
Tie btwn a few schools for me (sorry I am not ready to narrow it down until I have finished tabulating pre-interview schools)

My dream schools (in no specific order)
1. Baylor COM
2. Vanderbilt
3. Penn

There are many more but I just am not ready to list them...So for any adcoms looking at this...know that this is a very very very short list that does not include all the schools I think would be amazing for ME.
Wow...I'm already giving disclaimers!
 
Any of the 44 I applied too.
...Wow 44, lol. Seriously, I agree with you, any school that is gracious enough to accept me, will be my dream school(s). Did I say, wow 44, yet? 🙄
 
Dartmouth... great school, good reputation, good residency matches and oh i like snow

It's actually not that snowy compared to other parts of New England (or from what I'm told, the upper midwest.) No idea about the med school per se, but it was a great place to go as an undergrad and it's a lovely part of the country
 
Harvard!! But I'm not applying there.

haha, same here. Best profs in the world, amazing interdisciplinarity...and not a flippin' shot...another one would be UWash b/c I love Seattle, but I'm not a western resident, so no chance either...

you did say 'dream', which indicates that this is where it would stay, in my dreams
 
Dream med school, until then
I'll hit the books and apply again
That's the only thing to do
Until my med school dreams come true

Because I want a school
Without a flaw
I want a dream med school
So I don't have to go into law

(Apologies to Bobby Darin)
 
Hey Riceman, I think the earlier poster you were responding to was talking about Stanford's "true" pass/fail. If I remember correctly from my interview there, their grades are either pass or fail for the pre-clinical and clinical years (though I could very well be wrong). Also, I don't think they have class rank. This differs from other honors/high pass/ pass/ fail systems which essentially feel like traditional ABCDF systems with different names. Anybody else know about their system want to chime in?
 
DOOK UNIVERSITY!

(Seriously. Not that I ever had a chance of getting in there.)
 
UCSF

Great program, supportive faculty, happy students, and all of it in one of the best cities in the country! Can't beat that!
 
University of Washington School of Medicine. There's nothing else even remotely close to seattle.

Seconding this. It was actually my only interview, then I got waitlisted (in the "you're-probably-not-going-to-get-in-but-hey-stranger-things-have-happened" category), and I just found out a couple weeks ago that I got in. Other people may like the Ivies better, but to me the feeling of actually getting into my dream school is pretty damn awesome.
 
I was just wondering what is everyone's dream school as of now and why?

Wright State University School of Medicine.

I enjoyed my UG experience and have a lot of friends in the area. I'm probably the only person voting for WSU.
 
Dang, I can't believe it took 34 posts for Duke to come up.

Then again, I'm biased. 😛

Seriously, though, I'm AT my dream med school. Couldn't be happier with it. :luck:
 
1. nyu (location)
2. cornell/mt sinai
3. vandy
4. dartmouth (really nice town and students aint as snobby)
 
Hm. Good point. UWSOM would have been a close second (or maybe even above Duke) had I had a snowball's chance in hell of getting in there.

Me? I'm white. I went to school in California. I'm upper middle class. Sooooo even though I grew up in Washington, (11 years!) no chance for me.
 
UCSF- great school, great location, S.O. is in SF, and I'm a CA resident (and want to stay that way!)🙂
 
rochester or SUNY buffalo...crazy amounts of research going on there, great hospitals and decent in state tuition