Help me rank please!

[Atlantoraja]

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Interview season is winding down and I am really struggling to make heads or tails of my rank list. Any input is appreciated.

I am not much of a researcher and am interested in international work. I have been very impressed by some of the smaller name programs with solid clinical training (especially Penn State), and am not sure what to do with that with some of the bigger name programs I have gotten. Don't have a strong location preference.

U. Missouri Columbia
St. Louis University
Mayo
Emory
Boston University
Penn State
Beaumont
Wills
Long Island Jewish
Temple
Scheie - U. Penn

 

[docta9]

Given the same list, different people (even with the same assumptions and facts) would rank things differently. That said, I would personally rank it as....

Wills
Scheie -U. Penn
U. Missouri Columbia
Mayo
Boston
Penn State (not sure, would have to do more research on the program)
Emory
St. Louis University
Temple
Beaumont
Long Island Jewish

However, there is a case for ranking Beaumont quite a few notches higher. See, there is no one "correct order of best programs". Wills is good because it can open doors for you. However, you could become an excellent cataract surgeon at Missouri and have a happy life compared to a troubled life if you go to a program and have political trouble with a hateful faculty member. Don't laugh, careers and lives have been destroyed by a single hateful faculty member or people helped because of a single good faculty member.

 

[Bronze Medal]

Given the same list, different people (even with the same assumptions and facts) would rank things differently. That said, I would personally rank it as....

Wills
Scheie -U. Penn
U. Missouri Columbia
Mayo
Boston
Penn State (not sure, would have to do more research on the program)
Emory
St. Louis University
Temple
Beaumont
Long Island Jewish

However, there is a case for ranking Beaumont quite a few notches higher. See, there is no one "correct order of best programs". Wills is good because it can open doors for you. However, you could become an excellent cataract surgeon at Missouri and have a happy life compared to a troubled life if you go to a program and have political trouble with a hateful faculty member. Don't laugh, careers and lives have been destroyed by a single hateful faculty member or people helped because of a single good faculty member.

My version of your rank list would have Missouri lower and Emory higher.

Just remember, you could give a list of 10 programs to 10 different people and get 10 different rank lists. That is OK. We all have different priorities.