<p>hahaha it WOULD be a traumatic experience! Stepping down from my pedestal up here! :-P</p>
<p>OK, to be serious…I get what you guys are saying. This was a pretty foolish thread. I didn’t know that I should be so thankful to get in ANYWHERE; some things weren’t as clear to me as they should have been. I’ll take this all into consideration, but I’ll more than likely abandon my ambitions here pretty soon. </p>
<p>If I do end up at PPS, I’ll be sure to let you guys know…and I’ll be extremely happy.</p>
<p>I figure it would be like going from being a BCS football player that starts to playing on special teams in the NFL. Bigger pond, more fish.</p>
<p>To quote Tyler Durden, “You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.”</p>
<p>Getting in somewhere should be your priority. Trying to impress people is a non-issue.</p>
<p>Yup… the goal should be getting in somewhere that will allow you to practice medicine, which many a state medical school that you’ve been putting down would be more than capable of doing.</p>
<p>When you go to doc., do you care if he is Harvard trained or he is known to be helpful, knowledgable, caring? 80% of physicians in our area graduated from local no-rank Medical school, which is still very very hard to get into (about 4,000 applications yearly for about 150 apots). I heard there is no income diff. either. I also know personally people who got very top residencies (like Mayo clinic and such) after our local Medical School. Difficulty of classes could be compared only if the same person went to 2 different schools concurrently, which is impossible. So, prestige seems to come down to the fact that one can mention in conversation that they graduated from such and such school.</p>
<p>The RW (real world) here: My neighbor is anesthesiologist. He went to a DO school. He is in a group of doctors that trade shifts. His two peers in the shift: (1) a doctor from Harvard medical school; and (2) a doctor from a Caribbean medical school. They all three make the same amount of money
BIG.</p>