<p>Exactly… And the last thing I want is to be jobless when I could’ve led a relatively cushy existence at the Drexel program. Worst case scenario, I won’t be able to handle it at penn. Im a hardworking student, but I hear those curves can be vicious. And as much as I love the prestige of having an ivy league undergrad diploma, how helpful is that in the job market?</p>
<p>collegecrazing - If you’re not really enthusiastic about research, then it sounds like high-powered academic medicine is NOT for you, and that you’d be happier at Drexel. Med school is tough wherever you go tho. The one downside of choosing Drexel would be if you discovered you didn’t want to become a doctor after all, and you find yourself four years later with a BS from Drexel rather than Penn. </p>
<p>Drexel has a large-ish med school and had pretty solid results in the match this year. Results change from year to year–students have different interests–but this will give you an idea of the typical residencies Drexel grads end up in. </p>
<p>(From the student doctor network)</p>
<p>Drexel Med Class of 2013!!!</p>
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<p>Anesthesiology (18)
U Minnesota Med School-MN
Hershey Med Ctr/Penn State-PA
UPMC Med Ed-PA (2)
Johns Hopkins Hosp-MA
Hosp of the Univ of PA
Geisinger Health System PA-PA
Allegheny General Hospital-PA
UC Davis Med Ctr-CA
NYU School of Med-NY (4)
Drexel Univ COM/Hahnemann Univ Hosp-PA
Jackson Memorial Hospital-FL (2)
UCLA Med Ctr-CA
Duke Univ Med-NC</p>
<p>Child Neurology (1)
St. Louis Childrens Hospital-MO</p>
<p>Dermatology (6)
Cleveland Clinic Fdn-OH
UC Davis Med Ctr-CA
SUNY HSC Brooklyn-NY
Wake Forest Baptist Med Ctr-NC
Roger Williams Med Ctr-RI
Massachusetts General Hosp-MA</p>
<p>Diagnostic Radiology (17)
Albert Einstein Med Ctr-PA
Eastern VA Med-VA
Drexel Univ COM/Hahnemann Univ Hosp-PA (3)
Cedars-Sinai Medical Ctr-CA
U Southern California
Hosp of the Univ of PA
U Maryland Med Ctr
Beaumont Health Systems-MI
Brook Army Medical Center-TX (2)
Oregon Health & Science-OR
UMDNJ-R W Johnson-Piscataway-NJ
Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai-NY
U Wisconsin Hospital-WI
Staten Island Univ-NY</p>
<p>Emergency Medicine (20)
Case Western/Univ Hosp Case Med Ctr-OH
Hershey Med Ctr/Penn State-PA
Staten Island Univ-NY
Thomas Jefferson-PA
Drexel Univ COM/Hahnemann Univ Hosp-PA (4)
LSU SOM-LA
Christiana Care-DE
North Shore-LIJ Health Sys-NY
York Hospital-PA (2)
Einstein/Jacobi Med Ctr-NY
Allegheny General Hosp-PA
Temple Univ Hosp-PA
Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai-NY
Einstein/Beth Israel Med Ctr-NY
U Illinois COM-IL
Denver Health Med Ctr-CO</p>
<p>Family Medicine (17)
Wake Forest Baptist Med Ctr-NC
Crozer-Chester Med Ctr-PA (3)
Institute of Family Health-NY
Drexel Univ COM/Hahnemann Univ Hosp-PA
St. Vincent Health Ctr-PA
Mercy Med Ctr-CA
McLennan County Family Med-TX (2)
Christiana Care-DE
Wright State University-OH
Lancaster General Hosp-PA
Chippenham Medical Ctr-VA
UCLA Med Ctr-CA
Providence St. Peter Hospital-WA
VCU-Fairfax Family Med-VA</p>
<p>General Surgery (14)
Allegheny Gen Hosp - PA (2)
Drexel Univ COM/Hahnemann Univ Hosp-PA (2)
UMDNJ RWJ - Piscataway (2)
Eastern VA Med School-VA
Lahey Clinic-MA
Cooper University Hospital-NJ
Dartmouth-Hitchcok Med Ctr-NH
St. Barnabas Med Ctr-NJ
Christiana Care-DE
North Shore-LIJ Health Sys-NY
U Texas HSC-San Antonio</p>
<p>Surgery-Preliminary (3)
Riverside County Regional Med Ctr-CA
North Shore-LIJ Health Sys-NY
Hosp of the Univ of PA</p>
<p>Internal Medicine (48)
George Washington University-DC (5)
Walter Reed National Military Med Ctr-MD (2)
Winthrop-University Hospital-NY
North Shore-LIJ Health Sys-NY (2)
Drexel Univ COM/Hahnemann Univ Hosp-PA (7)
Einstein/Beth Israel Med Ctr-NY (2)
Johns Hopskins Hosp-NY
U Maryland Med Ctr-MD (2)
Ohio State University-OH
Lehigh Valley Hosp-PA
UPMC Med Ed-PA (2)
Cooper University Hospital-NJ (3)
B I Deaconess Med-MA (2)
Boston Univ Med Ctr-MA (2)
Thomas Jefferson Univ-PA (3)
Scripps Clinic/Green Hospital-CA
Tufts Med Ctr-MA
U Southern California (2)
U Rochester/Strong Mem-NY
Jackson Memorial Hospital-FL
U North Carolina-NC
UC San Diego-CA
Georgetown University Hospital-DC
Rush University Med Ctr-IL
Wayne State University SOM-MI
Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai-NY</p>
<p>Medicine Primary (3)
George Washington University-DC
Yale-New Haven Hospital-CT
Einstein/Montefiore Med Ctr-NY</p>
<p>Medicine-Primary/HIV (1)
B I Deaconess Med Ctr-MA</p>
<p>Medicine-Preliminary (5)
Drexel Univ COM/Hahnemann Univ Hosp-PA (3)
UC Irvine Med Ctr-CA
UMDNJ-New Jersey Med-Newark-NJ</p>
<p>Medicine-Pediatrics (3)
Rhode Island Hosp/Brown University-RI
Christiana Care-DE
U Texas Med-TX</p>
<p>Neurosurgery (4)
WSU/Detroit Med Ctr-MI
Jackson Memorial Hospital-FL
Allegheny Gen Hosp-PA
Baylor College Med-Houston-TX</p>
<p>Neurology (6)
Duke University Med Ctr-NC
U Alabama Med Ctr-AL
NYU School of Med-NY
Baylor College of Med-TX
UMDNJ-R W Johnson-Piscataway-NJ
UC San Francisco-CA</p>
<p>Ob/Gyn (21)
North Shore-LIJ Health Sys-NY
Emory Univ SOM-GA
Hershey Med/Penn State-PA (2)
Cedars-Sinai Med Ctr-CA
White Memorial Med Ctr-CA
Carolinas Med Ctr-NC
Albany Med Ctr-NY
Drexel Univ COM/Hahnemann Univ Hosp-PA (2)
Monmouth Med Ctr-NJ
Jackson Memorial Hosp-FL
George Washington Univ-DC
U Kentucky Med Ctr-KY
Western Pennsylvania Hosp-PA
Stamford Hospital/Columbia-CT
SUNY HSC Brooklyn-NY
SUNY Upstate Med Univ-NY
Carilion Clinic-Virginia Tech-VA
Cooper University Hosp-NJ
UMDNJ-New Jersey Med/Newark-NJ</p>
<p>Ophthalmology (8)
UPMC Med Ed-PA
Geisinger Health System-PA
Drexel Univ COM/Hahnemann Univ Hosp-PA (2)
Tufts New England Eye Center-MA
Wills Eye Institute/Jefferson-PA
Eastern VA Med School-VA
UMDNJ-New Jersey Med-Newark</p>
<p>OMFS (2)
Allegheny Gen Hosp-PA
Drexel Univ COM/Hahnemann Univ Hosp-PA</p>
<p>Orthopaedic Surgery (7)
Harbor - UCLA Med Ctr-CA
Drexel Univ COM/Hahnemann Univ Hosp-PA
Western Michigan Univ School of Medicine-MI
Tufts Medical Center-MA (2)
Hosp of the Univ of PA
UPMC Hamot Med Ctr-PA</p>
<p>Otolaryngology (3)
Henry Ford HSC-MI
U Kansas SOM - Kansas City
University Hosp-Cincinnati-OH</p>
<p>Pathology (6)
BI Deaconess-MA
UC San Francisco-CA
Darthmouth-Hitchcock-NH
Drexel Univ COM/Hahnemann Univ Hosp-PA
Cedars-Sinai Medical Ctr-CA
Cleveland Clinic Fdn-OH</p>
<p>Pediatrics (28)
Phoenix Childrens Hosp-AZ
Jefferson Med/DuPont Childrens PA
Childrens Hosp-Oakland-CA (3)
Hershey Med/Penn State-PA
NYU School of Med-NY (2)
Winthrop Univ. Hosp-NY
Stony Brook Teach Hosp-NY
UMDNJ-R W Johnson-Piscataway-NJ
North Shore-LIJ Health Sys-NY (2)
U Texas HSC-TX
Rhode Island/Brown Univ-RI
U Colorado SOM-CO
St. Christophers Hosp-PA (2)
Eastern VA Med Ctr-VA
Einstein/Jacobi Med Ctr-NY
Cooper University Hosp-NJ (2)
U Michigan Hosp-MI
UC Irvine Med Ctr-CA
UCLA Med Ctr-CA
Cincinnati Childrens Hosp-OH
NYMC-Westchester Med Ctr-NY
UC San Francisco-CA</p>
<p>Peds/Psych/Child Psych (1)
Rhode Island/Brown Univ-RI</p>
<p>Physical Med & Rehab(2)
UC Davis Med Ctr-CA
VA Greater LA Health-CA</p>
<p>Plastic Surgery - Integrated (3)
University of Rochester/Strong Mm-NY
Lehigh Valley Hosp-PA
U Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics-WI</p>
<p>Psychiatry (11)
Johns Hopkins Hosp-MD
NYP Hosp-Weill Cornell-NY
U Maryland Med Ctr-MD
Einstein/Beth Israel-NY
Einstein/Montefiore-NY
Thomas Jefferson Univ-PA
Wright Patterson-OH
U Virginia-VA
U Texas Southwestern Med Sch-TX (2)
UPMC Med Ed - PA</p>
<p>Radiation Oncology (2)
Drexel Univ COM/Hahnemann Univ Hosp-PA
Beaumont Health System-MI</p>
<p>Urology (2)
Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai-NY
U Florida COM-Shands Hosp-FL</p>
<p>Vascular Surgery - Integrated (1)
David Grant USAF Med Ctr-</p>
<p>Penn is a great school, but I know a number of UPenn grads looking for work right now with few good prospects. They are pounding the pavement with everyone else. My optometrist graduated from Penn, had a wonderful 4 years studying what she loved and enjoyed, couldn’it find work that she like and that paid what she wanted for then next several years, and then went back to school to become an optometrist and has been employed and well paid since. It’s not as though any decision is so final, and there are many ways to get where you want.</p>
<p>I do agree with Jane about the research. It can be very competitive getting research opportunities at a school like Penn, and getting a good reference from the right profs or pre med committee can hinge on your research experiences.</p>
<p>Trust yourself and go to Penn if you want to get into med research. If you would be happy as a practicing physician then go to Drexel and cut yur risk, although not totally as they still require you to maintain a certain GPA and take the MCAT.</p>
<p>Hi everyone, I ended up committing to Penn. Thanks for all of your advice, it really helped me make my decision!</p>