How should these colleges be ranked?

College Search & Selection
1

So, I have a top four, but before I apply, I want to get someone else to weigh in. How should these be ranked?

Harvard Medical School
University of Pennsylvania
Duke University
John Hopkins

2

Well, if you’re applying to undergrad you wouldn’t be applying to HMS, you’d be applying to Harvard College.

Purely based on USNWR rankings, it would go:
1)Harvard
2)Duke
3) UPenn
4) John Hopkins

However, as many people on CC will tell you, rankings are not the whole story. What is important to you in a school? A different, more personal and more accurate ranking will emerge from there.

3

You do realize that you need a bachelor’s degree before applying to any medical school, right?

4

You could also rank them alphabetically or by the oldest to newest.

Good luck

5

@yonceonhismouth Duke is not higher than Penn on USNWR. Neither for college nor for med school.

@whatcollege54
For medical school my ranking is:

Harvard
JHU/Penn
Duke

Harvard,JHU, Penn have been consistently in the top 3 med schools throughout the years both in rankings and general perception.

However to get to med school you need to go to college first.

For college my ranking is:

Harvard
Penn
Duke
JHU

I base the college ranking on overall strengths of the departments, desirability by students, yield rates, outcomes and just overall perception as I see it.

6

@Penn95 actually my mistake- they are tied on USNWR but Duke is the first one written in the #8 category.

7

^yeah true that is because they are in alphabetical order

8

They should be ranked correctly, lest you apply to the least of them by mistake.

9

Getting into even one of those is a major achievement.