If You Had a 5.0 and a Nobel prize....Where and Why?

[Eric Lindros]

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Caribbean baby

If I were that smart it wouldn't matter where I go to school. Location would be it.

Sandy beaches tops the ghetto that is Baltimore any day.

 

[AndrewB]

The University of King's College in Nova Scotia. Or maybe St. Francis Xavier. Steeped in tradition and old world charm.

 

[Cirrus83]

I'd take my full ride scholarship at Yale 😛

Seriously is nobody else going to say Yale?

 

[BuckeyeForBass]

Yes I know 5.0 does not exist. But if you had every school in the US (or Canada) offering you a full scholarship, where would you go and why?

My pick is Tufts University. Love the students. Love MA. Like that the school attempts to work for the community it is located in (unlike some schools that just take up space). Want the Triple board program for residency. U Cincinatti is my runner up.

Side note: I wanted to attend Dalhousie when I was little because that's where Gilbert Blithe (Anne of Green Gables) went - back when all it took to become a doctor was a clean suit and some cash.

Just wondering ... why Cinci as no 2?

 

[BuckeyeForBass]

whoops. Sorry. Saw the answer to my question

 

[taniaekal]

Johns Hopkins

 

[deleted407021]

If I had a Nobel Prize, I'm guessing I would already have a degree.

Solid necro bump, mate.🙄

 

[487806]

Johns Hopkins

Gotta love necrobumps

 

[AlbinoHawk DO]

If you're winning a Nobel prize, you're doing work that affects people on a greater scale then the direct application of medicine - why would you give up all that promise to go back to school and be a grunt for years?

If you find hyperbole for the purpose of a hypothetical, why take it so seriously?

 

[darkjedi]

princeton

 

[Spinach Dip]

Yeah, you have a 5.0 and a nobel prize... but what'd you score on the MCAT?

 

[sbEMT33]

Columbia, Weill, Icahn, NYU

Nothing better than the big apple

or Duke

 

[Tuftee]

I would attend some "lower level" MD school to see how much I could shake things up. "We have Nobel Laureates come here to learn from us!" would be a pretty big draw.

 

[Lucca]

Anything in NYC.
Anything in Boston.
JHU.

Northeast or bust mates.

 

[Patros]

Why isn't this thread just "What's your favorite medical school?"

But anyway, from what I've seen, I would say Columbia or Cornell. Some people hate the big city, but I love it. Doesn't hurt that they are associated with a massive hospital with associated cancer centers, and have huge research facilities.

Sniff... Why won't you love me Manhattan schools?... We could have been happy together. =(

 

[cookiemonsters]

I've lived in the northeast my entire life (including now for medical school... *sigh*) so I would like to live somewhere new for 4 years. My picks would be Duke to cover the south, Baylor to cover TEXAS, and UCLA or Stanford to cover California.

Even with a 5.0 and a nobel prize, most people would get rejected from those places without the necessary checkbox EC's.

 

[Zelda840]

Somewhere in Ireland. Probably Trinity in Dublin. Cool and misty year round. <3

 

[DR MOM]

Nothing like enjoying a thread about dream schools and then reading multiple people re-posting racist crap. I'm glad the mods deleted the original post, but maybe you could also delete the tons of quotes of the comment.

 

[solitarius]

A toss-up between UCSD or Stanford.

 

[La Presse]

University of Langone, otherwise known as NYU.

 

[raiderette]

Guaranteed ED acceptance somewhere and a simple uncomplicated senior year.

 

[FluffyPolishUnicorn]

Columbia all the way! my dream school, and i already live in NYC so its convenient 🙂

 

[alamo4]

If I had a Nobel Prize, I'm guessing I would already have a degree.

Solid necro bump, mate.🙄

Just FYI, Steinbeck, Hemingway, and Tagore all got Nobel Prizes in Literature without undergrad degrees. I am sure there are more across the prize award areas; I only know of those three. I am assuming the original poster implied a Nobel Prize in a scientific discipline, but honestly despite the posts complaining otherwise, adcoms are much more interested in exceptional achievement as as sign of previous success and hard work than filling off boxes. As long as you've done your prereqs, they want some objective sign of awesomeness. Writing the script of a TV episode is going to make you more interesting to an adcom than volunteering in the ED for a year.

 

[deleted407021]

Just FYI, Steinbeck, Hemingway, and Tagore all got Nobel Prizes in Literature without undergrad degrees. I am sure there are more across the prize award areas; I only know of those three. I am assuming the original poster implied a Nobel Prize in a scientific discipline, but honestly despite the posts complaining otherwise, adcoms are much more interested in exceptional achievement as as sign of previous success and hard work than filling off boxes. As long as you've done your prereqs, they want some objective sign of awesomeness. Writing the script of a TV episode is going to make you more interesting to an adcom than volunteering in the ED for a year.

Well, not every applicant can be expected to be a Steinbeck or Hemingway.