Statistics on the match list per school

[Chankovsky]

Is there any statistics out there. How do you find how good of a match list a particular school has?

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[nuclearrabbit77]

it's qualitative. to help guide you in determining how good it is, take a look at how many competitive specialties people match in.
if i had to group them by competitiveness:

higher~dermatology, orthopaedic surgery, neurosurgery, otolaryngology-head and neck surgery (ENT), opthamology, radiology, urology

a bit lower~ radiation oncology, internal medicine, emergency medicine, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, anesthesiology, neurology, pathology

even a bit lower~ ob.gyn, family medicine, psychiatry.

these are just rough placements, sorry if i offend a particular speciality.

also, it's important to weigh the institution that the person matches in. for example, an internal medicine match at Mass General is going to be more competitive than an (no-name-institution but "harder" specialty)

 

[nuclearrabbit77]

in addition, people might have intentions of going into specialties like cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, hem-onc, and many many others where you have to finish internal medicine or general surgery first. so if alot of people in a class want to do that, they might have alot of internal medicine/general surgery matches and less specialty matches which might make you think that this match list isn't great because it might not have alot of "competitive specialties" listed on it. so make sure you look at what types of places the internal meds and general surgery match into.