Med School Rankings

Chaos at the US News and World Report headquarters!

[DGlaucomflecken]

This is NOT a paid promotion for the LS-82Z, but it should be. Really a wonderful machine.

[jordanabendroth]

Jimothy keeps the insurance companies honest

Bimothy keeps the news agencies honest

[AliciaMcIntire]

Fun fact: US News and World Report stopped publishing actual news in 2010 to focus on just college rankings

[fulltimeslackerii]

meanwhile every med student: “it’s so competitive. i’ll go to whichever school accepts me”

[woshwbdsiashqwed]

Here's my 2cents as a med student.
Ranking doesn't matter. As long as your doctor 1) finished med school, 2) completed residency, 3) genuinely cares about you, then you're fine as a patient.
Top schools don't always produce caring doctors.

[JackDespero]

I am currently working as a researcher in an international lab, side to side with people from Princeton, MIT, Berkley, etc. I did my education in a mid tier Spanish university.
It turns out that physics is the same everywhere, so we all have the same level.
What Ivy League-like universities offer are connections and prestige, not more or better knowledge.
On the flip side, I do not have student debt, versus the tens (and sometimes hundreds) of thousands of dollars of some of my peers. I say this not to be smug, but to tell people that you do not need to go bankrupt to get an education (and that the US university system is a scam designed to pay for expensive football teams).

[DemonicNightmare]

The -imothys are the true heroes, keeping their respective companies from becoming full-fledged cartoon supervillains instead of full-fledged cartoon villains.

[thHour]

Bimothy: "Why do we even need to do the rankings?
Ranker: "Tradition."
Bimothy: "You mean peer pressure from those who have passed away?"

[deputyrook]

goddamn, Bimothy got some balls. Timothy was cowering at the first sight if an incivility, Bimothy just straight up slapped his boss in the face. here's hoping Timothy got a better and kinder job and Bimothy can kickstart the boss's redemption arc.

[jordanabendroth]

I'm not sure how Harvard and Yale will survive!!!

[Andeloth]

As a PhD student I wish someone did satire about my field like you do about medicine 😂

[jordanabendroth]

A news agency reporting on the news instead of ranking things?

[MaddieHatter]

That line about gauging your self worth and intelligence based on where you get accepted…I felt a tear well up in my eye 🥲

[colinmartin]

At 35, the best med school will be the one that accepts me as a nontrad with mediocre grades, a mediocre mcat, and 25, 000 hours of experience as a medic.

I just wanna embody the rural medicine/emergency medicine life

[jarredcox]

Doesn't matter what med school I go to, M.D., D.O., couldn't care less. I want to be a doctor, not an ego driven maniac. As long as I get into a med school I'll be happy, I'll be taking one more step towards my dreams, and one more step towards saving lives. I once knew someone who was completely disgusted at the thought that I would consider attending a state D.O. school, It's a fine looking school with a personal connection to my peoples history (Native American). I even have a potential full-ride opportunity assuming I work within a facility which treats my people for a few years. I'm still in undergrad, and my GPA isn't pretty at the moment thanks to a whole host of issues I've faced the last few years (Family deaths, Covid-19, loss of job, very non-trad college journey spanning three degree paths which wrecked my GPA, etc.) but I don't. I will do everything I can to redeem myself and become the best doctor I can be, I will try and try again, study, apply everywhere within reason, and I will make them tell me no.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

[bcd]

This....was awesome.

Signed, a parent of a former Jonathan who is in med school

Ps these rankings made me sick with worry

Pps if you or your child gets into med school, seriously, way to go and congratulations

[vickiesimpson]

Having worked on the USNWR ranking for my children’s hospital, I can tell you all it’s a game and it’s all about money. So their specialty groups are primarily comprised of big names from big institutions or hospitals who will rewrite or add questions to make their institutions look better and give them an advantage. It’s not necessarily reflective of the actual care or education institutions or hospitals being ranked provide. Just a money game that I can’t ethically get behind any longer.

[cockatielnation]

I attended Physician Assistant program at a very small university about a hundred years ago. I was concerned my "fund of knowledge" would be lacking but later found myself well able to hold my own with graduates of far more prestigious schools. Of course, our Clinical Med instructor was a holy terror who never let us get away with rote answers and made us defend our opinions. He taught us to think!

[sallydavidson]

I went to a local Community College for my first 2 years of college getting an Associates Degree in Business and Accounting. I then transferred to DePaul University which is a highly ranked university known for their accounting program. DePaul was on 10 week quarters and Moraine Valley CC was on 17 week semesters. When I was taking my 1st accounting classes at DePaul the other students who had been enrolled at DePaul didn't even know many different accounting terms, calculations etc that I was taught at the Community College!
I'm glad I saved a boat load of $$$ at the highly ranked CC! When we walked across that stage to get our DePaul Diplomas I got the same piece of paper they did - it just didn't cost as much!

[lovelystarrynight]

Honestly it's time that more people know the more expensive a school is doesn't make it better. I went to a state college for nursing school and it was a great learning experience. I tend to look for NCLEX pass rates and how fast you can get a job after graduation 👍