But don't listen to me, I apparently am a D-Bag, doubly so?
Copro,
). Not to mention legacy admissions with their "gentleman's Cs" that really have no place there on their own. I was only trying to help the original poster and poke a bit of fun at your previous post denigrating all Ivy alumni as "stuck up jackasses". The fact is that pedigree will open doors for you. You will get an interview where others will not. You may not get the job and you will not get a better offer, but you will get an interview just because you have Harvard School of Medicine or a Mass General residency on your CV. This bias will likely decrease as ones career goes on. I will not deny however that an elite degree is definitely overrated. That being said, if my children want to attend an Ivy university, I will happily pony up the tuition.Just as the quality of your undergraduate University affects the competitiveness of your Medical School application, the quality of your medical school affects the competitiveness of your residency application. However, ultimately your board scores certainly have a higher weight in the ranking process. After all a 240 from Harvard is the same as a 240 from the worst medical school in the country. You would still be considered a superior applicant with the knowledge you need to excell in any program. However all else being equal who do you think that the selection committee will give the nod to. I know that Stanford ranks your medical school as part of its scoring of applicants for anesthesia residency positions.
Have you read http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=478388 ?
Regarding post residency competitiveness for jobs, if you are certain that you want to live in a particular area of the country you would probably increase your likelyhood of finding a job there by attending the best residency program that you could in the region, unless you can match at an elite program with national name recognition. Why? Because your future employers/partners will be personally familiar with graduates of your residency program, if not graduates themselves.
But don't listen to me, I apparently am a D-Bag, doubly so?
Regards.
Copro,
The point simply was that I know what I am talking about, nothing more sinister or self serving. There are many well known Ivy bred disasters roaming around (a certain president comes to mind
For what it's worth, few people I work with know where I went to school and I don't go around wearing an obnoxious school ring (like many of my former "ring tapper" collegues from Annapolis). So perhaps I am not much of a jackass afterall.
Isn't this just an extension of the endless public vs private debate?
