Ranking Integrated IR and DR programs

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David>Goliath1

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Hi everyone! I recently posted for help on my surgery preliminary programs and received some great feedback. Now I hope to get some feedback on my rank list for integrated IR and how I should sprinkle in (or not) DR programs. I am open to living anywhere, so I only care about training at the best possible institution! 😀

This is my current ranked list. Would you rearrange anything?

UCSF - IR
Stanford - IR
UCLA - IR
UCSF - DR
Stanford - DR
Cornell - IR
UCLA - DR
Johns Hopkins - IR
NYU IR
Duke - IR
Northwestern - IR
Wash U - IR
Yale - IR
Columbia - IR
The University of Washington - DR
BIDMC - IR
UVA - IR
Emory - IR
UTSW - IR
Icahn - IR
Cleveland Clinic - IR
USC - IR
U. Chicago - IR
Vanderbilt - IR
NYU - DR
Duke - DR
Johns Hopkins - DR
Emory - DR
Columbia - DR
Northwestern - DR
Mayo - DR
Yale - DR

Thank you all for your help! I appreciate every second of your time.
 
step1 and step2 are competitive for these specialties (250+). I come from a T10 medical school. Even split of honors and high passes. Multiple publications with more on the way. Board member on SIR. I’ve been told by interviewers I have very strong letters of recommendations. Anything else I should add?
 
No MGH, BWH eh? (jk)

Congrats on your stellar app and solid list! I am sure you will absolutely crush it wherever you go.
 
Curious about the order which you arrange the NYC IR programs. I would discuss more with your mentors. Feel free to Pm me if you are curious.
 
I liked all three! But I do feel Cornell does more to support residents along the way.

would you swap the order of any of these programs?
I did not apply to IR so we probably have different interests. Your list looks great, but you should know that Stanford/Palo Alto is the definition of a suburb (I see your other top choices are cities)