What is YOUR number one school?

[UTAPlaya10]

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Forget about the rankings, what school tops YOUR list? Mine would be any school close to the Houston Medical Center, (UTMB, Baylor or UTH).

 

[TamarMD]

Because of Phoenix amazing job at cheerleading it is now Mayo. Yep it bumped SUNY Downstate right off the number one spot. Truthfully if SUNY Downstate and any one of my "state" schools were to accept me I'd take Downstate. However if Mayo were to grace me with an acceptance when I do apply no hesitation.

 

[RySerr21]

its so hard to pick a number one school right now. Every time I start reading the website or brochure of a school I applied to i am like "omg this sounds so friken awesome."

So, I'll list the schools that are hovering at the top. In no particular order.

UCSD
USC
Dartmouth
Des Moines
Western

I am going to have to visit to actually see who springs to number 1...altho i must say i have been most impressed with Dartmouth and Des Moines. But there are many other reasons to pick UCSD or USC or Western over either of those schools. Then again there are also good reasons to pick UC Irvine, or UCLA...... AHHHH. Good thing i'm counting on plenty of rejections b/c seriously if i got in to all of them i wouldnt have any idea what to do.

 

[ChubbyChaser]

A school that acceepts me and has the cheapest Cost of Attendance.

 

[Livingapparatus]

Vanderbilt, and U of A

One because of there great URM scholarships and U of A to stay in AZ and instate tuition.

 

[UTAPlaya10]

Awesome. It's good to see that we all have different schools that we'd like to attend and that we are not affected by what US News and World Report decides to annoint.

 

[Begaster]

I only applied to schools that I knew I'd be happy going to. Ergo, I don't have a number one choice. Beggars can't be choosers - if I receive multiple acceptances (by some unlikely miracle), I will then begin to rank and decide where I'd rather be.

 

[armybound]

Vanderbilt.

 

[silverhorse84]

At this point I don't really have a realistic one...I'd love to go to Stanford, but I know I won't get it, so it's not a realistic number one.

I'd have to agree, one that accepts me. If more than one accept me, well then, I'll have a decision to make at that point...😀

 

[ar2388]

Cornell or NYU or Mt. Sinai or COlumbia.. they are all tied for first place. dont care which. will sell my soul for any of them

 

[p30doc]

A school that acceepts me and has the cheapest Cost of Attendance.

same

 

[JDOC13]

WashU or SLU

 

[shemarty]

At this point I don't really have a realistic one...I'd love to go to Stanford, but I know I won't get it, so it's not a realistic number one.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

I'm a huge fan of Stanford SOM, too 😍, but not gutsy enough to try EDP. I'll wait and see what my options are come May 15th.

 

[UVAbme2009]

Cornell as I want to work urban underserved. NYC would be a great environment to begin.

But if I got an acceptance from Cornell and UVA, I'd have a very difficult time turning down UVA.

 

[silverhorse84]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

I'm a huge fan of Stanford SOM, too 😍, but not gutsy enough to try EDP. I'll wait and see what my options are come May 15th.

You've got a much better chance at Stanford than I do 😳 so it should be me keeping my fingers crossed for you! I probably just wasted money sending them a primary, but you gotta dream (plus theres something about your chances going up if you fill out an application...).

Really, I just hope to get in somewhere.

 

[Dulcina]

any cali school... <3 ca!!

 

[sully677]

Northwestern or UCLA

 

[ronaldo23]

Tulane U

 

[Mayday]

University of Washington - because I already live here, and I won't have to move my family just so I can go to med school.

Second choice is UCSF because my husband is from San Fran originally - so at least one of us will know thier way around.

 

[Oceaner]

Hollywood Upstairs Medical College


do you think i'll get in? 🙁

 

[decafplease]

A UC. UCSF, in particular, but I'm not picky. 🙂

 

[RySerr21]

Hollywood Upstairs Medical College


do you think i'll get in? 🙁

Its a tough call...you may want to try some back ups, like Hollywood Upstairs Medical College de Caribe or the Hollywood Upstairs College of Osteopathic Medicine.

 

[rjpark2]

I just want to get into uic-peoria so i can get married sooner while i still go to med school! (see bf/gf conflicting futures thread if you're curious)

 

[UTnut]

If I had to pick one school it would probably be Baylor.

But honestly, I'm to the point where I don't really care where I go anymore.

 

[Decicco]

My #1 choice is the A.T. Still Winery and Distillery

 

[ar2388]

Cornell as I want to work urban underserved. NYC would be a great environment to begin.

But if I got an acceptance from Cornell and UVA, I'd have a very difficult time turning down UVA.

i dont think cornell does much of that. columbia might be a better choice if you really wanna work with the underserved. cornell is on the upper east side... columbia is in harlem, essentially

 

[pianola]

I really need to visit them first before making a declaration. You should bump the thread again after interview season...👍

 

[MILK07]

MUSC... in Charleston, great mission, staying close to Sig Other who can't move anywhere for 4 more years, to name a few reasons.

 

[student1799]

i dont think cornell does much of that. columbia might be a better choice if you really wanna work with the underserved. cornell is on the upper east side... columbia is in harlem, essentially

It's not that neighborhood-specific. (I'm from NYC, so I know the lay of the land.) ALL the hospitals in NYC, even those in affluent neighborhoods, have a primarily "underserved" patient pop. (90%+ Medicaid and Medicare). Lower-income patients use hospitals more because they're less likely to have private physicians, and hospitals give out a lot of charity care (much more than private practices).

So either one would be fine if you want to work with lower-income populations.

 

[student1799]

Cornell or NYU or Mt. Sinai or COlumbia.. they are all tied for first place. dont care which. will sell my soul for any of them

Yeah, me too. (Although not as taken by Columbia. It's much more of an old-fashioned book-learning med school than the others, with much less patient contact in the first 2 years.)

 

[Oceaner]

Its a tough call...you may want to try some back ups, like Hollywood Upstairs Medical College de Caribe or the Hollywood Upstairs College of Osteopathic Medicine.

but i want to match into a good residency program like the one in Mayo Clinic Correspondence School...

 

[utahjazz]

VCU and UVM

 

[Wylde]

Wisconsin

but in all honestly, I couldn't turn down an acceptance to Harvard/Yale/Mayo... they are just too prestigious (especially to the lay-man) to ignore.

 

[engineeredout]

SUNY Stony Brook. No doubts top choice.

 

[flip26]

Based on everything I know about them without ever having set foot on the campus: Mayo, Stanford, or Yale...

But I will honestly be ecstatic to get into my state school.

 

[BlackDr2b]

HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE!!!👍👍👍😀😀😀

 

[Amaranthinemoxi]

whomever wants me....

in the seriously unlikely event that multiple schools want me...


I'll just have a cataclysmic cardiac episode and it wouldn't make a difference anyway because I'd be dead.

 

[pakola]

University of Washington, Mayo, UC Davis....got rejected from UW, fat chance at Mayo, and UCD doesn't take many of it's own. We'll see

 

[UTAPlaya10]

I only applied to schools that I knew I'd be happy going to. Ergo, I don't have a number one choice. Beggars can't be choosers - if I receive multiple acceptances (by some unlikely miracle), I will then begin to rank and decide where I'd rather be.

You must have somewhere you perfer.

 

[UTAPlaya10]

I really need to visit them first before making a declaration. You should bump the thread again after interview season...👍

Yeah I will. I don't interview until next year so I may have to bump it for my class. (Medical School Class of 2014).

 

[Brodiewankenobi]

Stewart Univ. #1 school in everything...'nuff said

 

[ztaw15]

Wake Forest. But I haven't gotten my hopes up, and I would be thrilled with any school I am applying to.

 

[TupacalipseT96]

Wisconsin

but in all honestly, I couldn't turn down an acceptance to Harvard/Yale/Mayo... they are just too prestigious (especially to the lay-man) to ignore.

Mayo is presitigious to the layman? If you woulda said Mayo to me 6 months ago I would've said no thank you and thought you had a funny accent.

 

[TupacalipseT96]

But I'm leaning toward Stanopkinvard Med right now, imo.

 

[Wylde]

Mayo is presitigious to the layman? If you woulda said Mayo to me 6 months ago I would've said no thank you and thought you had a funny accent.

I was mainly talking about harvard/yale as prestigious to the layman. Mayo is in the same category in my book, though.

I also hear about a lot of cutting edge procedures or famous/important people that go to the Mayo clinic (ie John McCain just had his mole biopsied at Mayo).

 

[dienekes88]

Cornell or NYU or Mt. Sinai or Columbia.. they are all tied for first place. dont care which. will sell my soul for any of them

Mild obsession with New York?

In my mind, New York was the one bad thing about Columbia.

 

[dienekes88]

i dont think cornell does much of that. columbia might be a better choice if you really wanna work with the underserved. cornell is on the upper east side... columbia is in harlem, essentially

Washington Heights. Large Dominican population.

Yeah, me too. (Although not as taken by Columbia. It's much more of an old-fashioned book-learning med school than the others, with much less patient contact in the first 2 years.)

Really? There's a solid amount of lecture, and anatomy is pretty long, but there are a lot of opportunities for patient contact in the first two years. I have heard that the 3rd and 4th years at Columbia are pretty serious... you're in the trenches working with the patients.

It's not that neighborhood-specific. (I'm from NYC, so I know the lay of the land.) ALL the hospitals in NYC, even those in affluent neighborhoods, have a primarily "underserved" patient pop. (90%+ Medicaid and Medicare). Lower-income patients use hospitals more because they're less likely to have private physicians, and hospitals give out a lot of charity care (much more than private practices).

So either one would be fine if you want to work with lower-income populations.

I agree that New York Hospital isn't just a resort-hospital for the wealthy. However, geography has something to do with it. If I live in Alphabet City, I'm probably not going to go to New York Hospital for care... and I definitely won't be going to Columbia-Presbyterian. If I live in Washington Heights, why on earth would I go to Saint Luke's Roosevelt?

 

[amph119]

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[Hyperstudyosis]

CCLCM, Mayo, or U of Arizona

 

[riceman04]

hmmmm
pre-interview I have several toppies on my short list:

Baylor, UPenn, U. Wash, Vandy, UCLA, Temple 😱 (lol), Pauk the carrrrr in Hauvad Yaud, etc....