<p>Did any one get into one of the following medical schools?</p>
<pre><code> Dartmouth
Duke
Georgetown
Stanford
UPenn
Northwestern
Cornell
Columbia
Harvard
University of Chicago
Yale
Brown
JHU
</code></pre>
<p>If so can you list the following:</p>
<p>MCAT scores
GPA
Undergrad school
ECs
Rank</p>
<p>1.) <a href="http://www.mdapplicants.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.mdapplicants.com</a></p>
<p>2.) <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=213924%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=213924</a></p>
<p>3.) How on earth are you picking these schools? Did you pick places with famous undergraduate schools? There are a lot of ways to pick the most prestigious 13 medical schools in the country, and you haven't come remotely close to anything halfway reasonable.</p>
<p>What is wrong with this picks, I guess I am missing Baylor
What else am I missing?</p>
<p>WashU, for one. : )</p>
<p>You are missing WashU, UCSF, Michigan, UCLA, UCSD, Cornell and Pittsburgh. You should probably remove Georgetown, Brown and Dartmouth if you, for some odd reason, care only about the top 15-20 schools. But, if you plan to go into private practice, what benefit will you get from going to these schools other than massive debt?</p>
<p>Obviously that depends on your career goals. It's just that your list is incompatible with any goal that I can find.</p>
<p>For example, if you're putting Dartmouth on there, it sounds like you're interested in rural health. But then you've also got Harvard and Hopkins on there.</p>
<p>Okay, so maybe Dartmouth is a mistake, and you're really looking for a career in research. But then why do you have Georgetown?</p>
<p>Maybe you really want to get in touch with the compassionate, religious roots of medicine and advocate for public policy. But then why Stanford, which is highly secular and nowhere near DC?</p>
<p>Maybe you're interested in research and you love California. But then where's UCSF?</p>
<p>What's Brown doing on there? Maybe you like the Northeast. No, that can't be it, because you've included Duke.</p>
<p>Maybe you're into acclerated tracks for a second degree, like Duke has. Except, then, what happened to Baylor?</p>
<p>Your omissions of Vanderbilt and Baylor tell me you don't like the South. But Duke is there. Your omission of Pitt tells me you don't like industrial cities, but then Penn and Pritzker are on there. Your omission of Pitt maybe reflects that you don't like PBL. Excep that Harvard and Cornell are on there.</p>
<p>EDIT: I stand by my contention that prestige only matters in a select few circumstances, AND that it varies considerably depending on what you eventually want to do. There's no one good list of medical school prestige -- but that doesn't mean that there aren't some bad ones.</p>
<p>Even so, the OP has put together a very bizarre list. I cannot find any career goals or selection criteria that make sense except that he's picked schools with famous undergraduate programs.</p>
<p>I was just listing schools
I am far from med school and do not know enough about the different medical schools, but I just listed some schools I thought were the most prestigous and difficult to get into and wanted to know what stats were required.</p>
<p>The stats are all available either in MSAR or on USNews.com.</p>
<p>3.8, 35 or so for the top schools that you listed.</p>
<p>Alright, I asked my buddy who is currently attending NYU's med school what he thought the top med schools are and here's what he said (in no order):</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins
Penn<br>
Washington<br>
Harvard<br>
Pitt
Yale<br>
Baylor<br>
Columbia
Stanford<br>
Michigan<br>
UCLA<br>
Washington University in St. Louis
Cornell, ever heard of it? (Sorry, just got done watching the Office finale)<br>
UCSF
Duke</p>
<p>This is a reasonable list (again, not in order) for those physicians intent on pursuing an eventual career that involves *research *-- that is, academic physicians who plan on eventually being faculty at a medical school.</p>
<p>Again, there are definitely different things to look for depending on your career goals.</p>
<p>Univ of Wash maybe?</p>
<p>It's on there, third one down.</p>
<p>BDM, which med schools would you consider to be the best for the clinical side of medicine? (assume normal medium-sized urban setting)</p>
<p>Impossible to say. Again, it depends on what kind of medicine you mean. Big tertiary care centers will look for kids from big tertiary hospitals -- Mass General, SF General, Barnes Jewish, Ronald Reagan, Children's Philadelphia, etc. Rural programs will look for kids from rural-emphasizing schools. Highly specialized surgical programs will look for students who have exposure to highly specialized types of surgeries (i.e. HSS).</p>
<p>For example, Pritzker's a great school for almost everything -- but their hospital doesn't have a trauma unit. If you want to go into trauma, you should pick a major hospital in a big city -- for example, Feinberg or Keck or something like that -- over Pritzker. </p>
<p>As another example, very specialized exotic diseases (say, certain types of ID or genetics) introduce a new concern: you need to worry about what I call the stepchild complex. Hospitals in the same geographic region normally don't cause problems -- except for these. So Tufts and BU hospitals may not get as many neat cases because of MGH and Beth-Israel in the area. Mt. Sinai and NYU may run into the same problem with Presbyterian. So even though these are excellent schools, a similarly-selective school that's in its own city (Wake, Georgetown, etc.) might be a better option.</p>
<p>There's a reason USN doesn't try to rank them.</p>
<p>Pat 2323,</p>
<p>I thought that was Washington U in St. Louis.</p>
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>Does anyone have listings of best med schools by each specialty/therapeutic area?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mdapplicants.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.mdapplicants.com</a></p>
<p>thats a scary site. Their gpas make mine look like crap.</p>
<p>That one's fourth from the bottom, SHS_Spartan.</p>
<p>Hi BDM, BRM, Norcalguy,and All,</p>
<p>Do you think that the GPAs on mdappliant.com represent thier cumulative BCPM GPAs only? </p>
<p>I can't imagine how you could get an overall 3.97 otherwise. I don't think Colleges give A+s.</p>
<p>Some colleges do give A+'s but they don't count.</p>
<p>And no, if you look closely, mdapplicants actually breaks down the overall vs. their BCPM GPA.</p>
<p>And, of course, overall GPAs tend to be higher.</p>