Is it a bad idea to attend a top medical school (i.e., top ten)?
Questeeeeeone
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I have a related question.
I got a 42S on my MCAT, and am thinking about retaking it to score higher. I heard your MCAT score translates directly into your USMLE scores, what med school you get into, whether you can practice medicine in the US, how hot your wife is, whether you will live to be 80 years old, and penis length. I think that extra point on the MCAT along with a better writing score will improve all of these things. Or at least that is what my roommate, SquatAndSqueeze, and my siblings, crazee8 and berkeleypremed, tell me.
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Gleevec
I got a 42S on my MCAT, and am thinking about retaking it to score higher. I heard your MCAT score translates directly into your USMLE scores, what med school you get into, whether you can practice medicine in the US, how hot your wife is, whether you will live to be 80 years old, and penis length. I think that extra point on the MCAT along with a better writing score will improve all of these things. Or at least that is what my roommate, SquatAndSqueeze, and my siblings, crazee8 and berkeleypremed, tell me.
/parody
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Sorry buddy, all of the above are true except that you're stuck with the penis length issue. Unless you get a 45, then I think it grows a few.
I should rephrase my question. If I just want to become a clinician (i.e., go into private practice someday), does it make any sense for me to go to a prestigious med school, where it is much harder to excel academically? I know that prestige is a good thing if you want to become an academic physician. But I have no interest in becoming an academic.
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If you have done well enough to get into a prestigious medical school then you should do well in your classes there. When you apply for residencies I'm sure they will take your school's prestigious reputation into account, even if you weren't in the top 25% of your class.
If I were you I would concentrate on getting acceptances first then making your decision.
If I were you I would concentrate on getting acceptances first then making your decision.
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well then if that's your case, then simply put more weight on other criterion such as COST and LOCATION and CURRICULUM.
if you dont care about rankings, go to the school that is the cheapest, in a warm location/city/beach/hot-chicks, and where they have pass/fail and coddle you like a high-maintence trophy wife.
if you dont care about rankings, go to the school that is the cheapest, in a warm location/city/beach/hot-chicks, and where they have pass/fail and coddle you like a high-maintence trophy wife.