Mt Sinai Match List

[Mets86]

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I was recently accepted to Mt Sinai, which I am thrilled about, since I am from NYC and really enjoyed my day there. One thing I am concerned about though is their match list. I noticed that in the competitive residencies, they had less matches than most schools (even ones ranked significantly below them):

Plastics - 2
Derm - 1
Urology - 0
Orthopaedics - 2

Even for these matches, the hospitals weren't that impressive. I have also heard that outside of NYC, Mt. Sinai isn't that well known, unlike NYU, Cornell, etc, even though it has a very respectable ranking.

Any thoughts?

 

[bbabul01]

My personal opinion is there is a lot more to a school than their match list. I have had many deans at various schools tell me to not even look at match lists. What you should really look at is the percentage of students that match to their 1st and 2nd choice. There is so much involved in the match: type of student, area they want to live, married/single, specialty they want, etc. It's not simply a one-to-one of good schools match to good residency programs. If you go to Mt. Sinai, and do really well, you're going to match wherever you want. If you go to Harvard, and do poorly, you're probably going to end up with a crappy match. If nobody went to derm, maybe it's because out of 100 people in a class, nobody was interested in derm. It doesn't mean Sinai can't produce competitive residents.

Go to the school you like, where the students were happy and the hospitals offered good training. You'll match where you want to match based on the amount of effort you put into it.

 

[KeepOnTruckin07]

I am also VERY interested in this question. Anyone have any experience from Sinai or have any other advice?

 

[Instatewaiter]

Mets you are getting a little ahead of yourself. You have 4 years of hard work ahead of you. You dont even know if you are going to have the grades and board scores to apply to a competitive residency. I understand that you are trying to make the most informed decision but using match lists or board scores to make your decision can be misleading. Match lists are hard to read and board scores are determined more by the students and less by the school.
I searched out their match list.

You left out a lot of competitive residencies such as Ophthalmo, Anestesiology and rads. Sanai has 11 going into anestesiology which is pretty competitive, 6 going into Rads another competitive one and 10 going into ophthalmo. Perhaps the stronger students this year were not interested in ortho, plastics or derm.

Remember the ROAD to medicine for easy (and therefore competitive) specialties: Rads, Ophtho, Anestesiology, Derm

 

[J-whoa]

so does anybody know if mt. sinai is rolling?

 

[FenderHM]

definitely rolling, but they have a small class size and even fewer spots for standard pathway applicants due to their humanities in medicine where they accept like 30 or so kids from humanities majors after sophomore year in college, and they also accept 10-15 MD/PhDs, leaving less than 100 of their 125 spots available... and if your white? knock that down to ~50 spots... that they've already given out...at this point interviews are for waitlist, which moves about 40 people per year...

this information has in no way been verified, theyre all my theories from dying on their waitlist last year

 

[Mortal_Lessons]

Mets you are getting a little ahead of yourself. You have 4 years of hard work ahead of you. You dont even know if you are going to have the grades and board scores to apply to a competitive residency. I understand that you are trying to make the most informed decision but using match lists or board scores to make your decision can be misleading. Match lists are hard to read and board scores are determined more by the students and less by the school.
I searched out their match list.

You left out a lot of competitive residencies such as Ophthalmo, Anestesiology and rads. Sanai has 11 going into anestesiology which is pretty competitive, 6 going into Rads another competitive one and 10 going into ophthalmo. Perhaps the stronger students this year were not interested in ortho, plastics or derm.

Remember the ROAD to medicine for easy (and therefore competitive) specialties: Rads, Ophtho, Anestesiology, Derm

What about neurosurgery?

 

[jjmack]

My personal opinion is there is a lot more to a school than their match list. I have had many deans at various schools tell me to not even look at match lists. What you should really look at is the percentage of students that match to their 1st and 2nd choice. There is so much involved in the match: type of student, area they want to live, married/single, specialty they want, etc. It's not simply a one-to-one of good schools match to good residency programs. If you go to Mt. Sinai, and do really well, you're going to match wherever you want. If you go to Harvard, and do poorly, you're probably going to end up with a crappy match. If nobody went to derm, maybe it's because out of 100 people in a class, nobody was interested in derm. It doesn't mean Sinai can't produce competitive residents.

Go to the school you like, where the students were happy and the hospitals offered good training. You'll match where you want to match based on the amount of effort you put into it.

% of students who match in there top choices is skewed too. Students only rank were they interview and often rank places high where they think they have a good shot at matching.