<p>We all know JHU has great placement rates into top med schools. Now, anybody got stats or something on JHU's placement into top 15 or top 20 med schools? For some reason, I'm guessing JHU in this regard isn't going to blow me away.</p>
<p>IANAD, but isn't the obsession about "top 15 or 20" kind of an undergrad fetish? Is there really any difference between medical schools if you want to go on to practice medicine? </p>
<p>Do you know what they call the person who graduated last in their class from the lowest-ranked medical school in the US?</p>
<p>Rick,</p>
<p>A top school a fetish? Lol, Then why go to JHU when I could go to Grand View Tech A&M Community Colege for ambidextrous hermaphrodites in the Ozarks? Top med schools do matter in terms or residencies, which directly relates to which specialty or carrer one wants to pursue. There is a difference, and a very big one.</p>
<p>Do you know what they offer to graduates of top ranked med schools?</p>
<p>I'm a Hopkins undergraduate, and first off, the prestige of your medical school is not going to directly lend itself to your placement in a residency. You will only be matched with a good residency if you are deserving, not only because you graduated from Penn or Harvard or Hopkins. If you are smart enough, you will get whatever residency you want, regardless if the institution is in the USNews top 20 medical schools (rather silly to rank schools which confer the same degree a prepare students equally eh?)</p>
<p>That being said, the Hopkins Career website lists Johns Hopkins Medical School, Harvard, Albert Einstein, Penn, Case Western, Maryland, and NYU as the most frequently attended medical schools. I think that's pretty damn good.</p>
<p>From the Class of 2005 Graduate Study:
(from our Career Center)</p>
<p>Most frequently attended Medical Schools:</p>
<p>(1) JHU School of Medicine
(2) Harvard Medical School
(3) Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Yeshiva University
(4) University of Pennsylvania Medical School
(5) Case Western Reserve University
(6) University of Maryland School of Medicine
(7) NYU School of Medicine
*25 other medical school reported.</p>
<p>I agree with coolguyuse123 -- not too shabby. That list definitely doesn't blow me away (sarcasm should be noted). </p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168656&highlight=medical+school%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168656&highlight=medical+school</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=173460&highlight=medical+school%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=173460&highlight=medical+school</a></p>
<p>Thanks you Admissions Daniel...that was what I was looking for.</p>
<p>Coolguy, we can agree that hard work and great boards can get anyone whatever residency they want. But let's not kid ourselves, the top residencies are generally made up of grads from top schools, are they not? Coincidence, I think not. After all, people go to the Johns Hopkins University for a reason.</p>
<p>Just because "the top residencies are generally made up of grads from top schools" doesn't mean that the SCHOOL they went to was the reason they got great residencies....it may just be that the smartest, most talented applicants get the best residencies, regardless of where they went to med school. The same is true for undergrad attendance...even though lots of the Rhodes winners announced yesterday were from great schools, others were from little-known public schools, too. I.e., they were still really great academically & had awesome involvement regardless of the school they went to. </p>
<p>While you seem to have the idea down, be careul not to mix correlation with causation. Just going to a great school undergrad or grad won't guarantee a good placement if you don't put in the work, obviously.</p>
<p>EXTREMELY well stated JHU_michelle!!!
Wow, we really do have smart people at Hopkins. </p>
<p>Going to a "name" school does not guarantee you a great future -- it is what you do at that school that truly matters. Hopkins will provide you with amazing resources and opportunities, but if you are lazy or lack initiative it will be your loss in the end.</p>