medical school rankings

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could someone tell me how to find the med school rankings or what the bottom 20 schools are? i want to apply to three of them of the 12 applications i am putting in.

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Go to usnews.com. Click on the link to "Best Graduate Schools" or graduate school rankings, whatever is listed. Then it will give you a link to med school rankings. To get the complete list you may have to pay the $9.99 subscription fee. I know you can see a short list without paying this.
 
I found this awhile back. The following set of rankings comes out every 4 years and gives the relative research "impact" of federally funded U.S. Universities from 1997-2001. Impact is determined by calculating the rate at which an institution's journal publications were cited in subsequent research relative to the national average. The rankings are broken into 21 fields, including several relevant to medical schools: Clinical Medicine, Immunology, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Neurosciences, Pharmacology, Biology & Biochem, and Psychology/Psychiatry. I think it's a good supplement to the NIH dollars rankings used by U.S. News.

Here they are:

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/PDF/ISIcitation impact1102.pdf
 
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Dude, I would ignore the rankings stuff. US News and world report, for example is controversial and based on research dollars and whether the school submits the data in the first place and lots of other things that have little to do with either whether the school is good or whether it will take you.

Also, if your credentials aren't stellar and you're flexible (which I guess you are since you're willing to throw appplications at what peope tell you are the worst ranked schools), why only twelve schools? To optimizie your chances and your choice, I would at least double that number.

People's best bets are generally their state schools. You could look at some of those books/sites where they give stats and descriptions of what they're looking for, and pick your best bets that way. And like I said, spread the love, you never know where it might hit home.
 
I agree. I posted this because I think a lot of people are looking for alternatives to the tired U.S. News rankings, which I agree are controversial. If people are going to look at rankings, it's better that they have lots of sources so they can do a kind of Metanalysis. Look at how different some of these are from U.S. News. I think that in itself is evidence that rankings should never be taken literally.
 
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