Top schools as ranked by SDN page views

[Nietzschelover]

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1) NYMC (Tie) -- 56 pages
1) VCU (Tie) -- 56 pages

3) Mayo -- 51 pages
4)Tulane -- 35 pages
5) Drexel (Tie) -- 29
5) Miami (Tie) -- 29
5) Rosy Franklin -- 29

8) Jefferson -- 27
9) Univ Chicago Pritzker -- 26
10) GWU (Tie) -- 25
10) Illinois (Tie) -- 25
10) Indiana (Tie) -- 25

13) Case Western (Tie) -- 22
13) Loyola (Tie) -- 22
13) Quinnipiac (Tie) -- 22
13) Univ Washington (Tie) -- 22

17) Georgetown (Tie) -- 21
17) UCLA (Tie) -- 21
17) UCSF (Tie) -- 21

20) MCW (Tie) -- 20
20) Oakland (Tie) -- 20
20) Wake Forest (Tie) -- 20
23) Duke (Tie) -- 19
23) Michigan (Tie) -- 19
23) USUHS (Tie) -- 19
23) Western Michigan (Tie) -- 19

Albany -- 18
Temple -- 18
UVM -- 18

BU -- 17
Columbia -- 17
Dartmouth -- 17
SUNY Upstate -- 17
UC-Davis -- 17
USC Keck -- 17

EVMS -- 16
Stanford -- 16
Texas A&M -- 16
UC-San Diego -- 16
Vandy -- 16

Harvard -- 14

*** I hope MeatTornado is off to a better NYE night than I am so far!

 

[Okazaki Frag Grenade]

This is why I didn't apply to Harvard. Obviously not worth that secondary fee

 

[Lucca]

Surprised Duke is not higher after that fiasco last year

 

[Nietzschelover]

Surprised Duke is not higher after that fiasco last year

How about little 'ol Mayo coming in at #3! And Pritzker beating GWU, G'town, etc.

 

[Lawpy]

CASPer ftw

 

[ofthesaints]

LOL. I'd be willing to bet that VCU is so high due to the amount of complaints regarding their turnaround time for viewing applications.

 

[Psai]

Surprised Duke is not higher after that fiasco last year

What was the issue again? They didn't notify waitlisted applicants by their self-imposed deadline or something?

 

[WedgeDawg]

What was the issue again? They didn't notify waitlisted applicants by their self-imposed deadline or something?

They rejected people multiple times (I was rejected 3 times) and they told previously rejected candidates that they were now put on a waitlist.

 

[BluMist]

Harvard is actually #16 if you sorted by "Views" instead of "Replies", meaning more people watch that thread than active participants.
Everyone wants to peek in to see what happens at Harvard.

 

[Psai]

They rejected people multiple times (I was rejected 3 times) and they told previously rejected candidates that they were now put on a waitlist.

Just to make sure that the applicants know how inadequate they are I suppose

 

[Wolf3D]

So basically, the SDN masses are most interested in mid-tier schools, because by definition most people are average and thus gravitate towards the average schools.

Also how come the thread title says "page views" but the actual rankings are by pages? I agree that the better ranking is page views because that gauges interest in a school, not just active posting, which can be very distorted

 

[Nietzschelover]

So basically, the SDN masses are most interested in mid-tier schools, because by definition most people are average and thus gravitate towards the average schools.

Also how come the thread title says "page views" but the actual rankings are by pages? I agree that the better ranking is page views because that gauges interest in a school, not just active posting, which can be very distorted

You're right. I screwed the title up. Should have read "thread pages."

Here are TOP 50 results for page VIEWS....

1) VCU
2) Mayo
3) NYMC
4) GWU
5) Drexel
6) Jefferson
7) Tulane
8) Rosy Franklin
9) UCSF
10) Loyola
11) USC Keck
12) G'town
13) Miami
14) Tufts
15) Wake Forest
16) Harvard
17) Dartmouth
18) UCLA
19) Michigan
20) Columbia
21) Chicago Pritzker
22) Quinnipiac
23) Stanford
24) Temple
25) MCW
26) UC-San Diego
27) BU
28) Einstein
29) UVM
30) Duke
31) Case Western
32) NYU
33) Vandy
34) Baylor
35) UC-Davis
36) Oakland
37) Emory
38) Illinois
39) Penn St
40) Albany
41) Mt Sinai
42) Univ Washington
43) Northwestern
44) SLU
45) Rush
46) UC-Irvine
47) Brown
48) Indiana
49) Rochester
50) EVMS

 

[avgn]

Makes super sense that the page views would see many more top schools sandwiched in the middle because SDN still very much cares about them as opposed to what the OP implied ;p

 

[WingedOx]

What pages specifically are you using for your metrics? I remember back in my day the class of 09(?) at Wayne turned their original application thread into an entertaining 4 year long bitch fest.

 

[Nietzschelover]

What pages specifically are you using for your metrics? I remember back in my day the class of 09(?) at Wayne turned their original application thread into an entertaining 4 year long bitch fest.

The 2015-2016 threads (current cycle).

 

[Lost in Translation]

You're right. I screwed the title up. Should have read "thread pages."

Here are TOP 50 results for page VIEWS....

1) VCU
2) Mayo
3) NYMC
4) GWU
5) Drexel
6) Jefferson
7) Tulane
8) Rosy Franklin
9) UCSF
10) Loyola
11) USC Keck
12) G'town
13) Miami
14) Tufts
15) Wake Forest
16) Harvard
17) Dartmouth
18) UCLA
19) Michigan
20) Columbia
21) Chicago Pritzker
22) Quinnipiac
23) Stanford
24) Temple
25) MCW
26) UC-San Diego
27) BU
28) Einstein
29) UVM
30) Duke
31) Case Western
32) NYU
33) Vandy
34) Baylor
35) UC-Davis
36) Oakland
37) Emory
38) Illinois
39) Penn St
40) Albany
41) Mt Sinai
42) Univ Washington
43) Northwestern
44) SLU
45) Rush
46) UC-Irvine
47) Brown
48) Indiana
49) Rochester
50) EVMS

Wow that Top 10 is a who's who of "safety" schools.

 

[Mad Jack]

Wow that Top 10 is a who's who of "safety" schools.

Safety schools tend to get a ****load of apps, because a LOT of people have the same safeties, regardless of the strength of their app, while lesser qualified applicants don't waste their money applying to highly ranked schools. Everyone willing to throw their name into the hat believes they might be NYMC material, but a good number of them are realistic enough to know they aren't Harvard quality.

 

[WedgeDawg]

Wow that Top 10 is a who's who of "safety" schools.

UCSF was my safety school

 

[Psai]

Wow that Top 10 is a who's who of "safety" schools.

Didn't even apply to mayo as it was much too bourgeois for me.

 

[occams_razor]

Wow that Top 10 is a who's who of "safety" schools.

Lol yes mayo and UCSF are totally safety schools

 

[deleted393595]

Makes super sense that the page views would see many more top schools sandwiched in the middle because SDN still very much cares about them as opposed to what the OP implied ;p

@Nietzschelover: Would be interesting to see schools ranked by the ratio of page views to thread count, which would give us a good idea of involvement vs interest.

Lol yes mayo and UCSF are totally safety schools

 

[WedgeDawg]

I would honestly use last year's info for this stuff because for many schools, a lot of thread activity happens from Feb through June, so any information gathered now is going to be missing a lot of data.

 

[DoctorSynthesis]

Burrel com is #1 #65 pages!

 

[Lucca]

Didn't even apply to mayo as it was much too bourgeois for me.

How so, Mustard can be far more bourgeois.

 

[Lucca]

UCSF was my safety school

It is a public school, how selective could it be?

*cackles and sends for butler*

 

[Cyberdyne 101]

It is a public school, how selective could it be?

*cackles and sends for butler*

With its 35 median mcat, UCSF probably rejects more 3.9/38+ applicants than every other top 10 school.

 

[AlteredScale]

Burrel com is #1 #65 pages!

That's because half those pages are me trying to calm everyone the hell down.

 

[WingedOx]

UCSF was my safety school

Unrelated and admittedly off-topic question: Does UCSF provide any sort of housing assistance to students to students nowadays, or have their own institution-owned housing like the NYC schools? Because holy crap, it's gotten bad there.

 

[Lucca]

Unrelated and admittedly off-topic question: Does UCSF provide any sort of housing assistance to students to students nowadays, or have their own institution-owned housing like the NYC schools? Because holy crap, it's gotten bad there.

Looked into it since UCSF is actually one of my favorite schools.

http://campuslifeservices.ucsf.edu/upload/housing/files/Rates2015-16-WEB.pdf

The on-campus housing at UCSF is significantly cheaper than the off-campus housing in SanFran if that counts as "assistance". It's available not just for students (MDs / PhDs / Nurses) but also for residents, fellows and postdocs. The cheapest option is a shared room in a group house for 600$ and it looks like the most you could pay for on-campus housing is a single occupancy 1-bedroom for 1700$. Pretty cheap considering that the median one-bedroom price in SF is 3600$ as of Oct. 2015. That being said, for those prices you can get a pretty roomy place here in Austin in a good location haha although prices have been rising significantly.

They even have a handy comparison chart.

It's not free housing but it's a generous range of options imo.

 

[WingedOx]

Looked into it since UCSF is actually one of my favorite schools.

http://campuslifeservices.ucsf.edu/upload/housing/files/Rates2015-16-WEB.pdf

The on-campus housing at UCSF is significantly cheaper than the off-campus housing in SanFran if that counts as "assistance". It's available not just for students (MDs / PhDs / Nurses) but also for residents, fellows and postdocs. The cheapest option is a shared room in a group house for 600$ and it looks like the most you could pay for on-campus housing is a single occupancy 1-bedroom for 1700$. Pretty cheap considering that the median one-bedroom price in SF is 3600$ as of Oct. 2015. That being said, for those prices you can get a pretty roomy place here in Austin in a good location haha although prices have been rising significantly.

That's not bad at all considering the surrounding area, though as someone who lived in a med school-owned apartment for a little while... never again.

 

[Lucca]

That's not bad at all considering the surrounding area, though as someone who lived in a med school-owned apartment for a little while... never again.

Hah, I watched the Mission Bay tour video and they don't look all that bad. Then again, I'm not an attending so I've grown used to university-style housing 😉.

 

[WingedOx]

Hah, I watched the Mission Bay tour video and they don't look all that bad. Then again, I'm not an attending so I've grown used to university-style housing 😉.

the buildings themselves were fine but the school contracted with a management company that was basically used to running student slums, so getting basic maintenance/upkeep stuff done was a pain. Plus, the amount of times the fire alarm system went off for really stupid things was what really made me happy to move out. By comparison, I lived as a intern in an apartment above a 4AM bar and still found more peace and quiet there despite the 80s dance night every saturday.

and of course I also have friends who went to med school in places like East Lansing and Winston Salem where med students buying houses was fairly common.

 

[Nietzschelover]

@Nietzschelover: Would be interesting to see schools ranked by the ratio of page views to thread count, which would give us a good idea of involvement vs interest.

That's too much analysis for a humanities/philosophy guy, especially a mere existentialist versus a philosophy of mind guy like @efle and the stellar STEM stars.

I did, however, fall prey to @WedgeDawg 's suggestion.....so here are results on VIEWS for 2014-2015 cycle....

1) Drexel
2) VCU
3) GWU
4) Duke (I believe Lucca suggested/predicted this result for last year's cycle)
5) Jefferson
6) UCLA
7) Einstein
8) UCSF
9) NYMC
10) Rosy Franklin
11) Dartmouth
12) NYU
13) Columbia
14) Baylor
15) Mayo
16) Miami
17) Wake Forest
18) Harvard
19) Stanford
20) Tufts
21) Penn State
22) Albany
23) UVM
24) Illinois
25) BU
26) Temple
27) Georgetown
28) Case Western
29) Loyola
30) Commonwealth
31) SLU
32) Univ Washington
33) MCW
34) Michigan
35) Mt Sinai
36) USC Keck
37) Oregon
38) UC-Davis
39) Arizona
40) SUNY-Downstate
41) Wash U
42) UC-Irvine
43) Rush
44) Ohio State
45) Quinnipiac
46) UC-San Diego
47) Colorado
48) Pittsburgh
49) UT-Southwestern
50) Emory

Receiving votes: EVMS, Hofstra, Indiana, Vandy, SUNY-Upstate, UNC, Yale, Northwestern, U Chicago, Tulane

 

[neurotroph]

Looked into it since UCSF is actually one of my favorite schools.

http://campuslifeservices.ucsf.edu/upload/housing/files/Rates2015-16-WEB.pdf

The on-campus housing at UCSF is significantly cheaper than the off-campus housing in SanFran if that counts as "assistance". It's available not just for students (MDs / PhDs / Nurses) but also for residents, fellows and postdocs. The cheapest option is a shared room in a group house for 600$ and it looks like the most you could pay for on-campus housing is a single occupancy 1-bedroom for 1700$. Pretty cheap considering that the median one-bedroom price in SF is 3600$ as of Oct. 2015. That being said, for those prices you can get a pretty roomy place here in Austin in a good location haha although prices have been rising significantly.

They even have a handy comparison chart.

It's not free housing but it's a generous range of options imo.

What that pdf doesn't tell you though is that their hosting is still super limited, so there's a crazy competitive lottery to get an apt. And even if you do get a spot, you can only live there for 2 years max. They're working on acquiring more property but there won't be any significant changes for at least the next 5 years. Housing was a very hot topic during my interview. The situation is not pretty.

 

[Lucca]

What that pdf doesn't tell you though is that their hosting is still super limited, so there's a crazy competitive lottery to get an apt. And even if you do get a spot, you can only live there for 2 years max. They're working on acquiring more property but there won't be any significant changes for at least the next 5 years. Housing was a very hot topic during my interview. The situation is not pretty.

Good to know! Guess it was too good to be true for SF

 

[WingedOx]

What that pdf doesn't tell you though is that their hosting is still super limited, so there's a crazy competitive lottery to get an apt. And even if you do get a spot, you can only live there for 2 years max. They're working on acquiring more property but there won't be any significant changes for at least the next 5 years. Housing was a very hot topic during my interview. The situation is not pretty.

Yeah, a friend of mine turned down UCSF for a fellowship a couple years ago because housing just wasn't financially feasible...and it's only getting worse.