Haha, you guys are funny... Selective reading is rampant on SDN... When I said "worst" I specifically put it in quotes and then qualified my answer by saying every US school is good but if you have to compare some are going to come out at the bottom. Also, quoting a match list to demonstrate the strength of a school is just stupid, do a search and read all of the threads about what a match list says about a school, but if you want to use that as evidence, cool...
Either way, if you think NYMC is such a great school then go there... And, if you want to label me a typical "pre-med" thats cool too, are you NYMC public liason or something? My comments were solicited advice to the OP. Obviously you hold NYMC in high regard, so go ahead and turn down Harvard and attend
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Either way, when you have 125 schools even if they are all great, some will be less great than others. I maintain that NYMC is near the bottom of the list in terms of greatness, and certainly less great than UVM.
From Harvard to to VCU you will learn the same exact material at every school. It will be presented slightly different, but it will be the same.
No crap...
The reactions of glycolysis won't change at Yale. The only difference would be the opportunities during clinical years, which being near NY would give NYMC the advantage.
So go to NYMC over Brown, Dartmouth or any other school not in Manhattan.
How can NYMC be at the bottom of the barrel for medical schools if they have an above average MCAT and GPA and an above average step 1 score? You can really only rank a medical school on the strength of its students and how well they are prepared for the boards.
This is probably the least informed thing you said. In fact this is one of the few things that you CAN"T judge a school by. Preperation for boards is an incredibly independant process, just like your preperation for the MCAT. You can judge an undergraduate insitution by their results on the MCAT, and you can't judge a medical school by their USMLE results. The best medical school in the country could have a bunch of lazy students who don't study for the Step 1 and they all fail, while the worst could have go-getters who do really well. Do a search before you spread false hoods like this!
Oh, and saying that NYMC is good because it has above average step scores is also not a good argument. EVERY medical school in the country says they have above average scores. Obviously that is not possible... Again, search...
If you're a state resident of the above schools these are your safety schools.
There is where your argument falls apart. I believe it is obvious to anyone with a pulse that your state schools should be your "safety" schools, and that since most state schools have a preference for their residents their "stats" will be lower than other schools. Do some research before you defend the reputation of school by stating that people's state schools will be easier to get into because they have lower average "stats."
You listed almost all state schools, and primarily minority schools as an example about how hard it is to get into NYMC just makes your case weaker.
You also can judge the quality of a school based on the "stats" of those admitted, no more than you can judge the quality by the match list. If these are the criteria by which you are judging the strength of various schools you will be in for disappointment.
