I didn't go to yale, but my school did have someone transfer in at the start of third year because his wife was starting residency at the same school. Only transfer in the four years I was there.
Some schools don’t even have optho departments/research.
He/She just needs to trust the heart of the cards
I guess I'd say it this way. It would be frustrating to see a spot go to waste for a potential DO physician just because they had wanted to go the MD route all along.
Actually the best bet would be for the OP to have his parents write a 50,000,000 check to the school and or have one of them get elected to house/senate.
I heard about this a while ago, so I have no chance of finding an actual link to the story to confirm its validity. This didn't happen to someone I was close to, I just heard about this story from other people. I can't even remember who told me tbh. I assumed that it'd be true because the amount of self-hating DOs who just want to have an MD behind their name isn't in short supply. I mean, look at the amount of people who are willing to go to the Caribbean to get the MD, as opposed to staying in the states for a DO because their pre-med advisor told them it'd be a good idea to do that. But that's besides the point. If I can find something about it somewhere, i'll post it.
OP did you interview at Yale last year? If so were you WL? What do you mean by “…your school has lower quality match rates for Optho compared to Yale”? Have you reached out to the Optho faculty at your own school? What have they advised / offered to help you out?
Indeed! Trying to interpret match rates for school is a Fool's errand.
Yup. You need a strong, strong reason and a similar tier acceptance already. Med schools, especially top med schools, are a bit clubby/cliquey. Yale is going to put their nose up at any student who isn't at a top tier med school. Based on my interview there, the administration is already salty about most of their residencies being significantly less competitive than the top ranked programs in Boston and NYC. It's extremely rare for this to happen in med school. I think it's more common in residency, but even then, you have to be in the "in" club to make it happen.
I do think there's a strong element of favoritism when it comes to top tier school applicants, tbf, and it's not just from better opportunities to craft a resume. We all know that med school admissions can be a roll of the dice. Two of my good college friends were effectively the same applicant on paper. One of those roommates had a more compelling story and got into a T5. The other went to a more average med school (think ~70ish on USNWR). I kept in good touch with both of them. The T70 med student actually had similar grades (on a much harsher grading scale), more/better pubs, and a higher step score, and they both went into medicine. The T5 student wound up interviewing at 3 of the Big 4, where they matched, and had a laundry list of T20 choices. The T70 student didn't get a single Big 4 interview and only a handful of T20. They matched very respectably, but the floor and ceiling was so different for them.
I’m sure rules could be bent for an eight-figure donation, or if you had a very powerful benefactor in your corner…medicine isn’t a bad occupation for the third son of a noble house.
Maybe. But if that was going to happen for OP, it would have happened last year, and this thread wouldn't exist.
LMAO yep. Yale would already have laid the cornerstone on the Richie McRichington IV Medical Library, and McRichington V would be walking the halls today.
while I will acknowledge that there are some obvious benefits to going to a top5 school versus going to any other school, i personally get exhausted caring about details like this. Dr Oz went to a top 5 medical school. Is he automatically considered a quality physician because of that? Checking google, one of the first news articles about him are in reference to him pushing for an unproven COVID drug, so I'll let you all answer that previous question. My main point is, at the end of the day, who cares. We live in a world where not everyone is treated fairly. That's how life is unfortunately. Some people will have more opportunities than others. It's not fair, but that's the world we live in. The best that we can do is try our best with whatever resources you have and if it works out, then great. If it doesn't work out, then that's fine too. Personally, I just feel like we, as a society, need to stop comparing whatever we have to other people. Reminder to myself too, cause I feel like all this does is give everyone migraines. Just do the best you can and move on basically. So if OP wants to match ophtho, put in the work for it. Stop comparing your opportunities with that of someone who's going to Yale.
I agree with the sentiment, but this is essentially saying "just ignore this obvious injustice." Feels nice to say, "it doesn't matter, you can't change it," but widespread indifference is how these things wind up propagating for generations. I say adopt these views as an individual if you need to cope, but don't spread them around to others.
You're free to feel how you would like to feel. I might be more cynical than some people. But my main point is that if you're going to stay awake late at night, hating the fact that you're not going to Yale for whatever reason, but were still lucky to get into any US medical school, you need to take a step back. Obviously, we should support fights against oppression and injustice. That wasn't the point that I was trying to make. My point is that, yeah Yale as an institution has a lot of resources and can probably place their grads in good places. But if you were among the lucky ones who were able to get into med school (something that a large majority of people aren't able to do), but still longly look at Yale, thinking every single one of your problems are going to be solved if you were just accepted into that one medical school, then it should probably be said that life isn't as simple as that. You could have everything handed to you on a silver platter, yet somehow screw it all up. My point is, be happy with what you have, do whatever you can with it and if you feel that there is something genuinely unjust about what you've been given, then definitely speak up. But there's a difference between speaking up about issues concerning injustice and oppression and complaining that the US medical school you're in isn't ranked that high and doesn't have too many people matching into ophthalmology. There are actual problems in the world in regards to healthcare and medical education that actually matter and demand our attention, who in the world is going to care what medical school you went to in like 100 years?
