You didn't highlight anything, just copy pasted basically the entire thing. The survey is obviously biased as everyone voted for themselves.
When I said highlight, I didn't mean I was literally going to put the text in highlights. I can go back and edit it to add that if you think it would help you read it though.
As for the bolded part, if you read the methodology, they control for people voting for themselves. Plus they ask people to rank the 5 top programs, not many folks have gone through 5 programs in their respective field.
It's not exactly objective whereas usnews uses raw numbers like research funding in their methodology. Not sure which part of that is confusing to you or why it is so important to defend a meaningless ranking system.
Again, it's clear that you haven't actually read anything about the methodology because you'd know that research, both in the form of h-index of alumni publications, as well as research funding, was a major part of the ranking system.
Prestige doesn't even matter in your specialty although you seem very caught up by it. You don't see harvard people going around, trying their best to convince everyone how awesome they are because of their ivy leagueness.
You seem very fixated on whatever it is you think I said in that other thread. I'm not sure why you let it get your jimmies so rustled. But I am proud of my program, it's an excellent place and I'm fortunate to be here. I mentioned it was one of the Ivy League programs because guess what, it is... You can make what you want of that (goodness knows you're going to anyway) but I suggest you lay off assuming I mentioned that to try to convince you of how awesome we are. You seem so insecure, most people wouldn't be offended by such a comment.
Also what is this about rank lists? No one goes around asking random people about their match lists. For one, that would be a weirdo thing to do although I can see how it would cross your mind. They are also biased by people's desires such as geographical preferences and other factors like a significant other's wishes.
That's what those of us in the Osteopathic thread (who aren't busy trying to knock everyone else down a peg) have been saying all along. It's you and a few of the other mascots we have around here who seem intent on incessantly pointing out how un-remarkable people's matches are.
But a program that is filled with dos and imgs is not a top program. I know this is the osteopathic section and my intention is not to offend but that's a huge red flag
Yeah, it's me who's got the ego problem. Between this and the "I know CCF isn't a good program because I have interviewed at good programs and myself and the other "top applicants" talked about it" comments you're really showing us how un-douchey you are. Get over yourself Psai. If I were you, I'd head back over to Allo where you won't have to slum it with any Osteopaths. Why are you even here?
