Withdraw advice

[nater]

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I'm writing for advice on whether or not to withdraw my application from certain medical schools. I've been accepted at Case Western and Mount Sinai, have completed the background check, and am now considering withdrawing my application from Georgetown, Tufts, BU, Dartmouth, Rochester, GW, and NYU. My (at least fledgling) medical interests are in infectious disease and global health. Does anyone have any particularly rave reviews of opportunities to study in my field of interest at any of those schools? Am I making a mistake withdrawing?

 

[ozzi22]

You have to do internal med before sub specializing in infectious diseases. So the school you go to won't matter. All you need is do well in med school to land a residency somwhere good or even great and do well during your residency years, then apply for ID fellowships. ID fellowships are considered fairly competitvpive compared to cardio and gastro. So won't. Have a problem getting in

 

[NickNaylor]

Withdraw if you absolutely know that, no matter how impressive the interview day might be, you wouldn't attend that institution OR if you can't afford to make the trip out to a school. If there's a chance that you might still attend one of the schools you have open applications at, I would hold out and go to the interview(s).

Also, trying to pick and choose a school based on extremely narrow criteria like that doesn't seem like a good idea to me.