Top Choice Med Schools for 2003 Applicants

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In My dreams

1. University of Maryland (great school, and in state, thus impossible to say no to)
2. Mt. Sinai
3. Dartmouth

 

[Mike59]

1. Northwestern
2. Mayo
3. Yale/Stanford/Harvard
4. UMich
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
99. In the tradition of a previous poster: My 9 other schools as an absolute last resort😛 🙁

 

[tBw]

the funny thing about this thread is seeing other people list as their #1 school a school which you have applied to, but are kind of unexcited about, and you're just like "huh, that's your #1, why??"

Of course, thank goodness it is like that...if we all wanted the same school 16,000-100=15,900 of us would be pretty unhappy

 

[Random Access]

Originally posted by Sweet Tea
Ideally, I'd love to get out of Chapel Hill (been here 9 years, great town and a great school, but it's time for a change). However, if I get accepted to UNC it'll be really hard to turn them down.

Yeah, it's no Duke, but it's dirt cheap! (what, like $3500/yr?) Funny story... So back when I was applying for undergrad, I got into Duke and Carolina. My dad, ever the financial aid negotiator, called Duke financial aid and said, "so, I can't afford this. I think I'm going to have to send him to Carolina." Lo and behold, Duke faxed him a revised financial aid estimate that essentially matched the price of Carolina. 🙂 Of course, I didn't end up going, but still, it was pretty cool...


-RA [fellow North Carolinian]

P.S. Still miss the sweet tea from Bojangles... 🙁

 

[Random Access]

Originally posted by dr kevin40
good choices blitzkrieg.

ur top 2 r same as mine.

Well now that we have your approval, I guess we all know that Blitzkrieg actually does have good choices. 😛


-RA

 

[cabruen]

I haven't started interviewing yet, so it will be interesting to see how my list changes.

Right now my choices in order are:

1) Baylor
2) UT Southwestern
3) Johns Hopkins
4) Stanford
5) Harvard

 

[kaos]

I'm really dreaming about going to:

1. Columbia
2. Albert Einstein
3. GW
4. USUHS (weird, I know)

 

[Random Access]

Originally posted by silvercholla
I'm not a 2003er but my top schools have always been

3. Downstate aka SUNY Brooklyn (It's three blocks from my house... nuff said)

Given the "parents" post...do you actually want to be 3 blocks from your house? 😀



-RA

 

[shanet74]

Hoping to get into one of these three

U of Arizona
U of Cincinnati
Vanderbilt

 

[bruinmojo]

These are my current top 5

1.UCLA
2.UCSF
3.Northwestern
4.Cornell
5.NYU

 

[JMD]

1) Pitt
2) Tulane
3) Sinai
4) Loyola
5) Dartmouth

 

[carmell1981]

Hi everyone, it's my first post.

Anyway, Pitt's my #1 for now.
I'm not from there but I heard it's a good place.

2. Mich State (GO GREEN!)
3. Umich

But I'm still procrastinating with secondaries so I haven't gotten interviews🙄

 

[Legend]

1)Princeton
2)Wellesley
3)Julliard

 

[GoodMonkey]

1. stanford
2. yale/hopkins
3. umich

..... changing with the phase of the moon ....

it would be interesting to see a thread where these lists are "revised" sometime late-winter. 🙂

 

[ga07]

my belated top six in alphabetical order:

Dartmouth
Duke
Harvard
Michigan
Minnesota-TC
Washington U

 

[Pinki]

Never too late to wish...

1. Tulane (did my undergrad there!)
2. Baylor
3. Stanford/UCSF (always wanted to call SF home)

 

[carmenrosie]

1. vanderbilt
2. northwestern
3. ucla

 

[Nefertari]

Will wait til after interview invites to list--don't wanna get my hopes up too much & jinx myself! 😉 🙂

 

[keptium]

These are my top 3.....🙂

1. WashU
2. U of C
3. Northwestern

Yup. I like dreaming 🙂

 

[dpy]

adding my list

UCLA
UCSF
Mt. Sinai (cali resident, but i really like this school...not sure why 🙂 )

but of course, i'd be thrilled to go anywhere

 

[2badr]

Wishful thinking...Baylor would be #1 and I have to think about the others. With all of these Baylor hopefuls I am glad I am not applying this year!😀

 

[hokiedoc]

My top 3 in no particular order are:
UVA
MCV/VCU
EVMS
Gotta love Virginia!

 

[clittle1981]

Originally posted by hokiedoc
My top 3 in no particular order are:
UVA
MCV/VCU
EVMS
Gotta love Virginia!

ME TOO! those are my top choices exactly, UVA is my top choice (though with my <30 MCAT I don't think that's happening) and MCV/VCU and EVMS are tied for second (no preference yet but will probably have one after interviewing at both later this week. hokiedoc, did you fill out an interview feedback for EVMS after you interviewed there?

other top choices are Pitt (also a reach, but did get a secondary) and University of Maryland (mom is a physician in MD and I got a secondary, still waiting to hear).

 

[Random Access]

Originally posted by dpy
Mt. Sinai (cali resident, but i really like this school...not sure why 🙂 )

Sounds a lot like Cedars-Sinai?

 

[cipher]

1. Hollywood Upstairs Medical College
2. Mayo Clinic Correspondence School
3. Club Med School

"If something should go wrong, let's not get the law involved! One hand washes the other. Oh, that reminds me..."
--Dr. Nick Riviera

 

[perrum365]

1. Ohio State (although I've been in Columbus too long)

1.5 Cincinatti (love the school, though I'm not excited about being a "Bearcat")

2. Case/Pitt/Rochester (just places I would like to say I got interviews at, but would probably not matriculate to due to $$$... heck, I won't get interviews from them anyway, so its nothing I really need to worry about)

3. Tulane/Vermont (man, wouldn't they be fun! 🙂 but i can't justify the cost over my state schools)

no, the list does not make sense. thank you 🙂

 

[secretstang19]

I'll weigh in...

1. Duke

2. Dartmouth

3. U.Va.

 

[batman123]

Me too.
My top choices:

1) Cornell
2)Vanderbilt
3)UCHSC

 

[cabruen]

Revised List...based on the realities of the application process.

1) Baylor
2) UT Southwestern
3) Columbia
4) Mayo
5) Harvard

 

[cdreed]

My top three!
1 USUHS - I'm a tad patriotic
2 U of Arizona
3 OHSU

Still patiently waiting for AMCAS to verify my app...

 

[Marklar]

1) Northwestern
2) Virginia
3) Vanderbilt

 

[CatsAreKillers]

Not that you're not entitled to your own opinion.....but Hanhemann over Temple?

Anyways, good luck at all three of your top choices smilez. 😉

Originally posted by smilez428
Hey everyone!

Here are my top 3!


1. UMDNJ (New Brunswick/Piscataway, then Newark)
2. MCP Hanhemann
3. Temple


Secondary went out for UMNDJ-NJMS about two weeks ago, and I'm still waiting on more secondaries!

Good luck to everyone!

 

[Explosivo]

WOW! My thread has really "exploded" here pardon the pun.

Here's my slightly revised 3 as they now stand:

1. Northwestern
2. Pitt
3. UIC

Yes, folks its official. Loyola has fallen off the list. UIC gained big ground for me today at my interview. The school seems to have improved over the past few years. I thought hell would freeze over before I'd choose UIC over Loyola but I guess its snowing there right now.

Guys keep posting as your feelings change toward your schools as a result of interviews or rejections. 🙂

 

[Yogi Bear]

here's a modified 2003 usnews ranking based only on the average values of the reputation. (doesn't include mcat, gpa, research money, etc.) next to is is the overall number. The 'overall' values reflect the regular usnews rankings that incorporates the features mentioned above.




Reputation Overall School
1 1 Harvard
2 2 Hopkins
3 5 Duke
4 6 UCSF
5 3 Wash U.
6 11 Stanford
7 8 Michigan
8 4 U Penn
9 10 U. Washington
10 7 Columbia
11 9 Yale
11 11 Cornell
13 17 UT Southwest
13 13 UCLA
15 19 U. Chicago
16 16 Vanderbilt
17 22 U. NC
17 20 UCSD
19 13 Baylor
20 17 Pitt
20 20 Emory
22 22 Northwestern
22 27 U. Virginia
22 28 U. Alabama
22 30 U. Iowa
26 22 Case Western
27 15 Mayo
28 22 Mount Sinai
28 28 U. Rochester
30 31 U. Colorado
31 31 U. Wisconsin
31 26 NYU
31 34 Dartmouth
34 38 U. Utah
35 31 Einstein
36 47 Indiana
36 35 Oregon
38 36 U. Minnesota
39 43 Tufts
39 36 USC
39 39 Boston University
39 39 Brown
43 39 Wake Forest
44 39 U. Maryland
44 44 Ohio State
44 44 U. Florida
47 44 U. Cincinatti
48 48 Jefferson
48 50 U. Miami
50 48 U. Mass-Worc.

 

[MedApp2003]

Here are my top three:

(1) UCSF [i'm out of state so definitely not holding my breath on this one]
(2) UPenn
(3) Duke

 

[Sweet Tea]

i think i'm changing my #1 school from UNC to ECU... I really loved it when I interviewed there.

of course, whichever school actually accepts me will become my favorite school. 😀

 

[Valeriya]

Hey there, after so much browsing, I got to join in, my 3 dream schools:
1)University of Florida
2)Tulane
3)Vanderbilt

My biggest reason were location, and happiness of students.
Now I'll cross my fingers and take a deep breath, we-ll see what will happpen to all these dreams at the end of the application cycle😕

 

[Jalby]

Here is my list from last year after I went on all the interviews:

1.2 Baylor
1.8 USC
3 Northwestern
4 U mich
5 Case Western
6 Tulane
7 Jefferson
8 Ohio State
9 MCW
10 SLU
11 George Washington
12 Georgetown

 

[doctor girl]

- Penn/Harvard

- SLU

- Temple

- Pitt

- Penn State



Hope everyone gets into their top choice!

 

[Ninjaboy]

Originally posted by Sweet Tea
of course, whichever school actually accepts me will become my favorite school. 😀

I'm going to agree with Sweet Tea on this one. I applied to different schools knowing that I could be at one of them. If I get in to one of several, my ideal school is the one I get an acceptance for.

 

[tBw]

The most interesting thing about this to me is that although I understand people *apply* to a range of schools, people also seem to list some radically different institutions as their "top choice list

eg East coast versus west coast
clinical versus academic
research versus community
big city versus small city versus rural environment
schools emphasizing primary care vs those emphasizing specialisms

I could give examples but I'm trying to avoid anyone thinking I'm "picking on them"...I'm just intrigued by it thats all....

 

[SunnyBunny7]

My choices:

1. Duke
2. UCSD
3. UCLA

However, what I want and what I get are two very, very different things . . . 🙄

 

[Caerulea]

Originally posted by the boy wonder
The most interesting thing about this to me is that although I understand people *apply* to a range of schools, people also seem to list some radically different institutions as their "top choice list

eg East coast versus west coast
clinical versus academic
research versus community
big city versus small city versus rural environment
schools emphasizing primary care vs those emphasizing specialisms

I could give examples but I'm trying to avoid anyone thinking I'm "picking on them"...I'm just intrigued by it thats all....

Go ahead. Give examples. You know you want to.

 

[tBw]

Originally posted by Caerulea
Go ahead. Give examples. You know you want to.

ok, post your choices, and then I'll make fun of them 😉 😛

 

[Caerulea]

Originally posted by the boy wonder
ok, post your choices, and then I'll make fun of them 😉 😛

You know what they say:

Your medical school chooses you, you don't choose your medical school.


Temple chose me. 😉

 

[Miss Dr.]

georgetown
cornell
nyu
bu

 

[pocwana]

has anybody's opinion changed after interviewing?

 

[DW]

Originally posted by pocwana
has anybody's opinion changed after interviewing?

i never posted my pre interview list, but my opinions have changed some. i couldn't really see myself at wash u anymore, i liked georgetown a lot more than i though i would, and cornell has gone WAAAAAAAY up (haven't been to all my interviews yet, but dare I say "top choice"?). looking similarly on paper, i think i'll end up liking northwestern a lot too when i interview there.

i dont know what to make of my preliminary top choice (upenn), since they wont interview me 😛

 

[mws99]

U Pitt and Case went way up on my list, I loved both of those schols. UMich is still my top choice, even though they waitlisted me. I would agree with DW that I didn't care for Wash U at all when I interviewed there, I was surprised.

 

[Saluki]

I'm not applying till next year but
1. Arkansas
2. Medical College of Wisconsin
3. Loyola