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If you could go to only 1 interview between these two...
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If I remember correctly, both schools are on the expensive side in terms of COA. If the curricula differences don't matter to you, then you should decide based on which location you would like more (keeping in mind that most schools have good relationships with residency programs that are geographically near them). Finally, if somehow ALL of those things are equal to you, then how badly do you need an acceptance? If you haven't been accepted anywhere yet, go to the one that accepts a larger fraction of those it interviews. If you already have an acceptance all those other things are equal, you should flip a coin.
I have to go to class now, otherwise I would restructure that response in the form of a flow chart.
I have to go to class now, otherwise I would restructure that response in the form of a flow chart.
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It's listed in a poll at the top of the thread.
I would much rather live in Philly than N.O., but Tulane gets a better rep around SDN IMO (maybe that's because i don't hear too many great things about Drexel). Also i am interested in an MPH and i think Tulane has a better public health program.
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Why wouldn't you go to both?
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I'd choose Tulane. But that's really my opinion, since i'm indifferent to both schools.
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Can't see the poll or the school names on sdn mobile
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Drexel because the folks at Tulane took my money and rejected me within a week. No way they're getting any more 🙂
Gotcha- didn't see it sorry! That's a good way to reason for which to go to. Personally, I'd pick Tulane because I think Drexel gets a pretty bad rep in general in terms of the actual school.
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When I interviewed at Tulane, my interviewer told me that it used to be a heavily research based school and possibly even ranked by USNWR. However, after Katrina, a lot of the notable PIs left because either their lab got destroyed or their house got destroyed. As a result, they are now in the rebuilding process in terms of research and trying to get it back to what it once was.
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Haha no doubt about it! I actually intend on applying to Tulane but not Drexel... I am applying to Jefferson and Temple, however. A good friend of mine grew up in NO and only has good things to say about it.
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Correct. For what it's worth, USNWR ranks Drexel at #85 while Tulane is unranked.
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I believe that's because the deans at Tulane med decided USNWP rankings were BS and declined to participate.
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From a Tulane University publication dated 11/18/1999:
"Joseph Pisano, associate dean of Tulane School of Medicine admissions, however, has little regard for the rankings. In fact, Pisano says he no longer returns the questionnaires used by U.S. News to compile data for its survey. By not responding, Pisano, in effect, takes the medical school out of the horse race.
"U.S. News doesn't know what it's doing," he says, despite the fact that the magazine ranked the school as the No. 6 comprehensive medical school in the country only five years ago. "I still don't know what comprehensive meant," he says. "I don't know how they generated the data. They didn't contact me."
Within two years, Tulane medical school dropped out of the rankings, Pisano says, because it no longer neatly fit into either of two newly created categories.
"[U.S. News] changed the end point by dividing schools into two groups," he says. "One reflects research dollars and the other the number of primary-care physicians produced." Neither category is an adequate measure of a medical education, says Pisano, who is particularly perturbed that the magazine isn't truly measuring how many graduates are going into primary care.
He points out that data used by U.S. News pertains to students entering primary care fields of family practice, internal medicine and pediatrics. Many specialists begin their careers by doing an internal medicine residency, he says.
"If you really want to track how many primary care physicians a school is turning out, you must see which graduates are still primary care physicians five or six years into their careers. While the no-show in the rankings has had a deleterious effect on admissions, it is not an overwhelming one," says Pisano.
The year after Tulane medical school was ranked No. 6, admission applications doubled, from 6,000 to 12,000. The school currently receives about 8,500 applications to fill the 150 available seats. That's a large enough pool, says Pisano, who maintains that our student body is the best in the country.
http://tulane.edu/news/releases/archive/1999/us_news_rankingsa_necessary_evil.cfm
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Wow.. 15 years ago tulane used to be #6 in the country?! It's astounding how much of an influence USNWR can have on a school. Oh, that and a hurricane.
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Actually that would be about 20 years ago, but yeah thats insane how much difference it made. I totally agree with his statements about the general irrelevancy of some aspects of the ranking system, but I can see why people inevitably put a lot of stock in them since it can be pretty difficult to compare schools that don't seem to be hugely different. Med school is either lectures or clinical experiences, neither of which are necessarily related to grant money.
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Go to whichever school offers the highest percentage of acceptances to interviews.
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I go to Drexel and love the school. However, why are you choosing one school over another based on reputations? Part of the interview is making sure a school is the right fit for you. If you interview at a school with an amazing reputation but you absolutely hated it, are you still going to enroll there because of that reputation? Unless you already have an acceptance from a school you really enjoy, interview at both Tulane and Drexel. Knowing you made the right decision in the school you eventually attend relieves a lot of stress.
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