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Baylor. I haven't visited there but Texas Medical Center is enough to sell me. Plus they're #10 in research and #11 in primary care. Winning combination there. The weather in Houston is awful and the terrain is completely flat. Not very runner friendly like Austin.
 
U of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I went to undergrad in St. Paul and most of my friends are still in the area. It's a good-sized urban area that has everything you need, but with a modest cost of a living. I have moved so much in the last 6 years that I don't really have the urge to be in some new area again, I'd feel much more comfortable coming back to a familiar place and familiar people.

ETA: that's for US schools. For Canadian, I think U of A would be my top choice - I love Southern Alberta and would take advantage of rural electives here, but I hate Calgary (the closest city to me and the other one in the province with a med school), and I'm not 100% sure that a 3-year program without summers is for me - I'd rather have my summers to myself, so U of C probably isn't the best match for me, although I think that it's one of the schools where I have a better chance at. Edmonton is a beautiful city, though, and not as congested and smog-filled as Cowtown.
 
either nyu or cornell
I will literally burn the acceptance letters from yale, harvard, jh for a letter from either nyu or cornell
 
hopkins!
[not for the name recognition, I've actually been to the campus and the faculty/students are amazing]
 
Case Western... I 😍 my alma mater and I want to move closer to my family.
 
I'll throw my hat in: UVa
 
pritzker
 
Stanford. It's either hit or miss with small collegetowns (Ithaca = hit!, New Haven = miss!). Stanford's nice, except it's in Palo Alto, one of the most expensive places in the country, and the highlight of the immediate surrounding area is upscale malls. But it's saving graces are: California weather, incredible architecture and landscaping, and a short busride to San Francisco. They rejected me undergrad +pissed+, but mark my words I WILL get a degree, any degree, from Stanford before I die.
 
Jhu Som
 
I go back and forth like everyday about my "top" school. Fact is I won't really know till I go on my interviews. Seeing schools in the abstract via their websites really doesn't tell you a whole lot. There are things that I like about all the schools that I applied to.

We'll see.

The upside to this whole strategy is that I won't be totally depressed when I don't get an interview to my "top" school cause I don't have one! 👍
 
Jolie South said:
I go back and forth like everyday about my "top" school. Fact is I won't really know till I go on my interviews. Seeing schools in the abstract via their websites really doesn't tell you a whole lot. There are things that I like about all the schools that I applied to.

We'll see.

The upside to this whole strategy is that I won't be totally depressed when I don't get an interview to my "top" school cause I don't have one! 👍
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grats on the interviews so far
 
Jolie South said:
I go back and forth like everyday about my "top" school. Fact is I won't really know till I go on my interviews. Seeing schools in the abstract via their websites really doesn't tell you a whole lot. There are things that I like about all the schools that I applied to.
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Hear hear! And depends on where I think I'll want to be geographically one year from now.
 
columbia for me!!!!! following my mt sinai or cornell and then NYU.. i really want to stay in NYC.:idea:
 
JackieTreehorn said:
Stanford. It's either hit or miss with small collegetowns (Ithaca = hit!, New Haven = miss!). Stanford's nice, except it's in Palo Alto, one of the most expensive places in the country, and the highlight of the immediate surrounding area is upscale malls. But it's saving graces are: California weather, incredible architecture and landscaping, and a short busride to San Francisco. They rejected me undergrad +pissed+, but mark my words I WILL get a degree, any degree, from Stanford before I die.
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That's the spirit! They rejected my undergrad transfer and I have no chance at their med school but with the help of one of my LORs, I hope to at least get an interview.

Earlier last year, I jokingly said that I wanted a Hugo Boss suit before I die and now I have one by pure chance. So when you get into Stanford, think of your good friend ecking next cycle 😉
 
I am the biggest sucker for advertisements. when the sudafed shower soothers came out, i saw the commercial for the first time at 2am and immediately googled the nearest 24-hour cvs to go get some. So, my first choice is always whatever school most recently sent me a viewbook haha. Today, it is Brown, because i came home last night to a viewbook sitting on top of the mail pile and immediately fell in love. Yesterday it was UPenn.

I have suddenly become the typical female; when i fall i fall really fast, and just like with men, i only want the medical schools i can't have :-/
 
aaj117 said:
I have suddenly become the typical female; when i fall i fall really fast, and just like with men, i only want the medical schools i can't have :-/
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hahaha -- but isn't it so true
 
ecking said:
That's the spirit! They rejected my undergrad transfer and I have no chance at their med school but with the help of one of my LORs, I hope to at least get an interview.

Earlier last year, I jokingly said that I wanted a Hugo Boss suit before I die and now I have one by pure chance. So when you get into Stanford, think of your good friend ecking next cycle 😉
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what's so good about hugo boss?
 
Yale SOM. I'm attracted to bulldogs for some reason.
 
Being that I am from the boring old midwest, and being lucky enough to have buddies at other universities that had SOM's where I could go wonder around and dream on.. ive been able to see a number of campuses... im also doing an internship at hopkins right now.... and id say that if you can get past the ghetto fabulous city blocks surrounding the institution, and a murder/homicide rate so abusurb they keep a tally of it in the daily paper, it would have to be the best hands down... as if its not historical and large enough already... they buy 3-4 city blocks a year and turn them into mega-towers... and they do have a 25 ft tall Jesus standing in the middle of THE dome

and where else could you treat a degradate of society and a princess or queen in the same day???
 
Case Western

in my dreams...
 
University of the Carribean School of Bikini Medicine

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Wow I'd like to pick her seashells by the seashore.
 
I would love to attend U of Wisconsin-Madison.
 
Baylor.
 
MSSM or NYU. Not gonna happen though. 🙁
 
Michigan

I LOVE Ann Arbor. If not there, Harvard, just because it'd be sweet to say, "yea, I went to Harvard med school"
 
...ucsd
 
etf said:
what's so good about hugo boss?
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Nothing, really. I saw the Terminal and starting noticing Hugo Boss everywhere so I jokingly said I wanted a suit from them before I die. Lo and behold during a trip to Macy's for an interview suit, the only brand with a slimmer style that fit skinny ol' me was a nearly 50% off Hugo Boss suit.

Now if only a similar coincidence would work for Stanford...
 
UCSD for me.

I've been trying to get out to Cali for 10 years.

This is it!
 
Vanderbilt or Columbia for me.......
 
UCLA/USC/UC Irvine

I would love to stay in southern cal near my current serious boyfriend/friends/family.
 
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