Great job everyone! These lists look good. Personally, I don't care for the prestige factor, but in many cases these great sites are great programs in and of themselves. Above all I hope everyone who matched, did so at one of their top ranked programs.
This is a bit off topic, and I may regret perpetuating this part of the discussion, but you really should qualify that. LECOM-B is the only campus that has students set up their own rotations, and even then some students can be assigned/select core sites, but its after LECOM-E & SH have been assigned (i.e. leftover spots from the North, this may change, its a fluid process).
The only rotations you set up yourself at LECOM-E and LECOM-SH are electives (just like every other school), selectives (like any other school that has selectives), and FM (yeah this you have to set up yourself, but if you wanted to, you could get it set up by your core site with an FM doc).
I will also comment on the idea of prestige, and looking at match lists for the "top-tier" programs. At my school, most students I know are not really interested in prestige. Some are, and are gunning for well-known names, but most are looking for a program that will provide them with the type of education they want in the region they want (and this really varies). There is also an inherent preference, it seems, with programs that students have rotated at, probably for familiarity and knowing that you mesh well with the residents.
My friends at MD schools really are mixed on this. Some (not all) at a couple schools seem obsessed with getting to the most well-known program. They also tend to be the ones that are shocked when I say I'm interested in FM, and say I should be looking elsewhere (because they had a terrible preceptor for FM that in some cases were just general IM docs), and at very least I should go IM for the "options". My MD friends at other schools (mostly state MD schools) tend to be more focused on "fit" for residency program, and they also tend to not give me a lecture of how FM is for med students that barely pass the Steps.
Now none of these are meant to be generalizations, and they are anecdotal, and quite frankly limited to handfuls of students in a region that encompasses only a few states. The point I'm trying to make is that a lot goes in to how students from any given school apply and match for residency. All schools have a culture that generally predominates, and this culture might even vary to some degree from class to class. Without knowing any of these factors, its really hard to analyze match lists between different schools. What's really important is how happy the individuals are with their own match. Lets just stick with congratulating the people that have matched, and wishing them the best of luck.
