What are some BIG schools with an MD program?

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Hey fam,

I was curious as too which AMCAS list of schools were "BIG NAME" schools out of CALI.
Im from California, and i come from an undergrad university that doesn't have a football team, but ive always wanted to go to a university that is full of school spirit, where everyone is excited about the football games etc.
In cali, obviously UCLA, USC, STANFORD. (i can name some more) are exactly the kinds of schools im asking about.

But which schools from other states are similar.? Midwest, East Coast..

Thanks !
 
i think most medical students could care less about their school's football team esp when they have 4-5 finals looming
 
1cor1311 said:
Hey fam,

I was curious as too which AMCAS list of schools were "BIG NAME" schools out of CALI.
Im from California, and i come from an undergrad university that doesn't have a football team, but ive always wanted to go to a university that is full of school spirit, where everyone is excited about the football games etc.
In cali, obviously UCLA, USC, STANFORD. (i can name some more) are exactly the kinds of schools im asking about.

But which schools from other states are similar.? Midwest, East Coast..

Thanks !
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Big name medical school or big name football school or both?
 
Michigan, Ohio State (barf), Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan State, Penn State, Illinois?, Indiana. That's Big Ten for you.

Then UWashington, Arizona... Alabama...

But yeah football is a pretty bad way to choose a medical school. Like choosing Alabama over Michigan b/c of that season opening game 41-14

Edit: Northwestern duh...
 
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Big football schools, or big sports schools that have medical schools.
Not just big name "medical schools"...

For example i didnt know that harvard even had a basketball team until i saw Jeremy Lin came from there.

Looking at the schools on the AMCAS i see schools like university of oklahoma, they have a football team. Im wondering if the school is big on school spirit, if there is a big stadium. etc.

It would awesome to be able to go to a med school, where everyone is hyped about the schools sports. i would love to go to my CA schools like USC or UCLA, or even UC BERKELY. But i also want to apply out of state =).

Im an athlete, even played college ball and continue to train in sports and play sports so this definitely weighs in on my list of schools.

So ya if any mid west peeps- or east coast peeps can recommend any that would be great!
 
1cor1311 said:
Big football schools, or big sports schools that have medical schools.
Not just big name "medical schools"...

For example i didnt know that harvard even had a basketball team until i saw Jeremy Lin came from there.

Looking at the schools on the AMCAS i see schools like university of oklahoma, they have a football team. Im wondering if the school is big on school spirit, if there is a big stadium. etc.

It would awesome to be able to go to a med school, where everyone is hyped about the schools sports. i would love to go to my CA schools like USC or UCLA, or even UC BERKELY. But i also want to apply out of state =).

Im an athlete, even played college ball and continue to train in sports and play sports so this definitely weighs in on my list of schools.

So ya if any mid west peeps- or east coast peeps can recommend any that would be great!
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Texas, Baylor, Florida, Miami, Cincinnati, Hawaii (bad med school, bad sports, but lots of school spirit), Creighton, Nebraska, Kansas, Mizzou, Kentucky, Louisville.. tons.

Problem is that most of them are state schools with strong IS preference.
 
ShenanigansMD said:
Michigan, Ohio State (barf), Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan State, Penn State, Illinois?, Indiana. That's Big Ten for you.

Then UWashington, Arizona... Alabama...

But yeah football is a pretty bad way to choose a medical school. Like choosing Alabama over Michigan b/c of that season opening game 41-14

Edit: Northwestern duh...
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Ok ya these big ten all have medical schools? See i didnt know that! thanks a bunch. Oh yea, i would most assuredly never choose schools in that way, as long as these schools have big teams and great school spirit i will be considering them for my apps! I dont want to go to a school thats really small.

Thanks guys!
 
I know I'm missing at least a couple. I tried my best to include ones that are in the same city as the undergraduate campus and exclude those that aren't. For instance, Northwestern's undergrad campus is in Evanston while the medical school is in downtown Chicago.

Arizona
Florida St.
UMiami
UCF
USF
Iowa
Kentucky
Louisville
Michigan St.
Michigan
Minnesota
Nevada
Duke
Wake Forest
North Carolina
Ohio St.
Pittsburgh
South Carolina
Vanderbilt
Baylor
Texas Tech
Utah
Virginia
Wisconsin
 
MedPR said:
Texas, Baylor, Florida, Miami, Cincinnati, Hawaii (bad med school, bad sports, but lots of school spirit), Creighton, Nebraska, Kansas, Mizzou, Kentucky, Louisville.. tons.

Problem is that most of them are state schools with strong IS preference.
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Ya that IS preference really hurts. Its such a bummer that the UC schools dont have that significant of an IS preference for us Cali peeps.

But hey thanks again for answering exactly what i was asking about!
 
red doctober said:
I know I'm missing at least a couple. I tried my best to include ones that are in the same city as the undergraduate campus and exclude those that aren't. For instance, Northwestern's undergrad campus is in Evanston while the medical school is in downtown Chicago.

Arizona
Florida St.
UMiami
UCF
USF
Iowa
Kentucky
Louisville
Michigan St.
Michigan
Minnesota
Nevada
Duke
Wake Forest
North Carolina
Ohio St.
Pittsburgh
South Carolina
Vanderbilt
Baylor
Texas Tech
Utah
Virginia
Wisconsin
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Sweet thanks!!
 
Also LSU has two medical campuses. Plus Tulane is down there too so you can probably add them on to LSU for sports.
 
ShenanigansMD said:
Michigan, Ohio State (barf), Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan State, Penn State, Illinois?, Indiana. That's Big Ten for you.

Then UWashington, Arizona... Alabama...

But yeah football is a pretty bad way to choose a medical school. Like choosing Alabama over Michigan b/c of that season opening game 41-14

Edit: Northwestern duh...
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Barf@Michigan 😉 Tressel's legacy lives on!

And yeah - graduate school students aren't usually as into football as the undergraduates are. This goes for pretty much anywhere, unless a majority of the graduate students happened to continue studying at their alma mater.
 
MedPR said:
Also LSU has two medical campuses. Plus Tulane is down there too so you can probably add them on to LSU for sports.
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The problem is that the LSU Tigers are in Baton Rouge, LSU's medical schools are in New Orleans and Shreveport.
 
red doctober said:
I know I'm missing at least a couple. I tried my best to include ones that are in the same city as the undergraduate campus and exclude those that aren't. For instance, Northwestern's undergrad campus is in Evanston while the medical school is in downtown Chicago.

Arizona
Florida St.
UMiami
UCF
USF
Iowa
Kentucky
Louisville
Michigan St.
Michigan
Minnesota
Nevada
Duke
Wake Forest
North Carolina
Ohio St.
Pittsburgh
South Carolina
Vanderbilt
Baylor
Texas Tech
Utah
Virginia
Wisconsin
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F- L - O - R - I - D - A - - - S - T - A - T - E - -Florida State, Florida State, Florida State, Woo,!
 
1cor1311 said:
Big football schools, or big sports schools that have medical schools.
Not just big name "medical schools"...

For example i didnt know that harvard even had a basketball team until i saw Jeremy Lin came from there.

Looking at the schools on the AMCAS i see schools like university of oklahoma, they have a football team. Im wondering if the school is big on school spirit, if there is a big stadium. etc.

It would awesome to be able to go to a med school, where everyone is hyped about the schools sports. i would love to go to my CA schools like USC or UCLA, or even UC BERKELY. But i also want to apply out of state =).

Im an athlete, even played college ball and continue to train in sports and play sports so this definitely weighs in on my list of schools.

So ya if any mid west peeps- or east coast peeps can recommend any that would be great!
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No such thing as a "UC BERKELY" medical school, or even UC Berkeley med school. The UC med school in the Bay Area is UCSF

MedPR said:
Texas, Baylor, Florida, Miami, Cincinnati, Hawaii (bad med school, bad sports, but lots of school spirit), Creighton, Nebraska, Kansas, Mizzou, Kentucky, Louisville.. tons.

Problem is that most of them are state schools with strong IS preference.
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THAT Baylor doesn't have sports teams. And "Texas" usually refers to UT-Austin which also doesn't have a med school, although UTHSCSA and Texas A&M are probably close enough to go to a couple games
 
MedPR said:
Texas, Baylor, Florida, Miami, Cincinnati, Hawaii (bad med school, bad sports, but lots of school spirit), Creighton, Nebraska, Kansas, Mizzou, Kentucky, Louisville.. tons.

Problem is that most of them are state schools with strong IS preference.
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Not sure what you're referring to with "Texas;" none of the University of Texas _____ School of Medicine schools have substantial football programs (though Tech and A&M obviously do). Baylor College of Medicine isn't affiliated with (and is three hours from) Baylor University.
 
MedPR said:
Texas, Baylor, Florida, Miami, Cincinnati, Hawaii (bad med school, bad sports, but lots of school spirit), Creighton, Nebraska, Kansas, Mizzou, Kentucky, Louisville.. tons.

Problem is that most of them are state schools with strong IS preference.
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Since everyone is being a stickler, I'll add to the corrections. Creighton does not have a football team but is pretty big on basketball. They make frequent appearances in the NCAA tournament. Nebraska Cornhuskers are in Lincoln. The med school is in Omaha. Kansas Jayhawks are in Lawrence. The med school is in Kansas City.
 
red doctober said:
The problem is that the LSU Tigers are in Baton Rouge, LSU's medical schools are in New Orleans and Shreveport.
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sector9 said:
No such thing as a "UC BERKELY" medical school, or even UC Berkeley med school. The UC med school in the Bay Area is UCSF


THAT Baylor doesn't have sports teams. And "Texas" usually refers to UT-Austin which also doesn't have a med school, although UTHSCSA and Texas A&M are probably close enough to go to a couple games
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NickNaylor said:
Not sure what you're referring to with "Texas;" none of the University of Texas _____ School of Medicine schools have substantial football programs (though Tech and A&M obviously do). Baylor College of Medicine isn't affiliated with (and is three hours from) Baylor University.
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red doctober said:
Since everyone is being a stickler, I'll add to the corrections. Creighton does not have a football team but is pretty big on basketball. They make frequent appearances in the NCAA tournament. Nebraska Cornhuskers are in Lincoln. The med school is in Omaha. Kansas Jayhawks are in Lawrence. The med school is in Kansas City.
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Isn't KU SOM in witchita?

Anyway, am I the only one that expects the school to support the sports team regardless of the distances between the physical campuses? I know for a fact (friends that go to Creighton) that there is a huge Cornhusker fan base in Omaha.

Edit: Also, I had no idea Baylor wasn't associated with the UG in any way.
 
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MedPR said:
Isn't KU SOM in witchita?

Anyway, am I the only one that expects the school to support the sports team regardless of the distances between the physical campuses? I know for a fact (friends that go to Creighton) that there is a huge Cornhusker fan base in Omaha.

Edit: Also, I had no idea Baylor wasn't associated with the UG in any way.
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I guess Kansas has campuses in both KC and Wichita. By all means you don't have to go to the college to be a fan or even attend their sporting events. I just thought the OP wanted to know the medical schools whose parent institutions had major football programs in the same cities. You can attend Loma Linda and go to USC/UCLA games, Columbia and Rutgers games, UCSF and Stanford/Cal games, Hopkins and Maryland games, and so on, and so on. I know that some of the schools on my list reserve student-section tickets for graduate/professional students. I wouldn't think though that LSU-New Orleans students get the same opportunity to watch Tigers games.
 
red doctober said:
I guess Kansas has campuses in both KC and Wichita. By all means you don't have to go to the college to be a fan or even attend their sporting events. I just thought the OP wanted to know the medical schools whose parent institutions had major football programs in the same cities. You can attend Loma Linda and go to USC/UCLA games, Columbia and Rutgers games, UCSF and Stanford/Cal games, Hopkins and Maryland games, and so on, and so on. I know that some of the schools on my list reserve student-section tickets for graduate/professional students. I wouldn't think though that LSU-New Orleans students get the same opportunity to watch Tigers games.
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I wonder if LSU plays any regular season games at the Superdome. I thought the OP was just looking for schools that would likely have school spirit for some sports team.
 
MedPR said:
I wonder if LSU plays any regular season games at the Superdome. I thought the OP was just looking for schools that would likely have school spirit for some sports team.
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Not typically during the regular season. They have played in the Superdome in recent years, but all in bowl games (the latest being the BCS NCG last year.)

Edit after a little research: apparently Tulane holds their home games in the Superdome.
 
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Wow, I am from Florida and will go to the Univ of FL this Spring...and had no idea that FSU had a medical school.

Humph. Color me stupid.
 
Hemorrage said:
i think most medical students could care less about their school's football team esp when they have 4-5 finals looming
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You would think so, wouldn't you? And yet for the most part our school usually has a solid 80-100 people at most games between all 4 classes. Ain't nothing else to do in Gainesville on Saturdays anyway.
 
red doctober said:
The problem is that the LSU Tigers are in Baton Rouge, LSU's medical schools are in New Orleans and Shreveport.
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LSU NOLA still gets tickets to LSU games in BR (lottery system for each class, leftovers, distributed first come first serve). Plus, many people have some of their 3rd and 4th year rotations in BR. It's only an 1-1.5 hour drive anyway.

The medical school is also located directly catacorner to the Superdome(saints/tulane) and the Nola arena (Hornets).

I park at the school and walk to games there.
 
RomanTaylor said:
Wow, I am from Florida and will go to the Univ of FL this Spring...and had no idea that FSU had a medical school.

Humph. Color me stupid.
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Yea, we've had a legit 4 yr med school for a little over a decade. For about 30 years before that we had the PIMS program which was a feeder for UF Med - you did the first two years in Tallahassee then transferred for your clinical years to UF Gainesville and got an MD for UF.
 
Go Buckeyes! Top Med School and don't make the big 10 look pathetic like the team up north does!
 
Although this is pretty low on the list of "Big Sports Schools", University at Buffalo does have a medical school and a division one football team, albeit a consistently unsuccessful one, but as far as NY state schools go its the biggest sports school under the SUNY banner. It also has pro football within a few minutes of campus which is nice too. Plus the area is pretty sweet if you don't mind the snow.
 
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Texas Tech and Texas A&M are the only FBS football school in TX that have their medical schools on/near the same campus as the undergrad. UTSA is FCS, and Baylor's med school is in Houston.
 
impact2d said:
Go Buckeyes! Top Med School and don't make the big 10 look pathetic like the team up north does!
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Haha, really now c'mon. Have fun with Urban.

jim-tressel-crying-600x345.jpg
 
red doctober said:
I guess Kansas has campuses in both KC and Wichita. By all means you don't have to go to the college to be a fan or even attend their sporting events. I just thought the OP wanted to know the medical schools whose parent institutions had major football programs in the same cities. You can attend Loma Linda and go to USC/UCLA games, Columbia and Rutgers games, UCSF and Stanford/Cal games, Hopkins and Maryland games, and so on, and so on. I know that some of the schools on my list reserve student-section tickets for graduate/professional students. I wouldn't think though that LSU-New Orleans students get the same opportunity to watch Tigers games.
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Ya i live in so cal, and live near loma linda actually. I didnt really mean schools that are an hour or more away, i meant an environment on the campus i attend where everyone is so excited for season, sports, wearing gear etc.
But thanks!
-If only university of Notre Dame had a med school.!
 
1cor1311 said:
Ya i live in so cal, and live near loma linda actually. I didnt really mean schools that are an hour or more away, i meant an environment on the campus i attend where everyone is so excited for season, sports, wearing gear etc.
But thanks!
-If only university of Notre Dame had a med school.!
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Usc's med school isn't on the campus either.
 
I wouldn't really characterize Stanford (they couldn't even sell out their stadium for their Harbaugh run) and UCLA as "everyone is excited about the football games etc." The atmosphere at Big Ten, SEC, and to an extent, Big 12 schools is completely different and on a different scale.
 
impact2d said:
Go Buckeyes! Top Med School and don't make the big 10 look pathetic like the team up north does!
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I didn't know it was a top med school..

Sent from my SGH-T999 using SDN Mobile
 
1cor1311 said:
Hey fam,

I was curious as too which AMCAS list of schools were "BIG NAME" schools out of CALI.
Im from California, and i come from an undergrad university that doesn't have a football team, but ive always wanted to go to a university that is full of school spirit, where everyone is excited about the football games etc.
In cali, obviously UCLA, USC, STANFORD. (i can name some more) are exactly the kinds of schools im asking about.

But which schools from other states are similar.? Midwest, East Coast..

Thanks !
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Penn State :laugh:
 
Just for the record, all the Ivies have football teams:

Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale


Cornell's medical school is 230 miles from Ithaca. Princeton's medical school is mythical. The rest play in the same city as the medical school, as best I remember.
 
LizzyM said:
Just for the record, all the Ivies have football teams:

Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale


Cornell's medical school is 230 miles from Ithaca. Princeton's medical school is mythical. The rest play in the same city as the medical school, as best I remember.
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So Ivy League is a title that is contrived directly from Football?

Oh...

Someone help me take my foot out of mouth...seems stuck 😱

My apology's...didn't know.
 
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