Schools that Feed the Most to Top Employers and Graduate Schools

[Anonymous]

These rankings displays the same bias playing out in an echo chamber.

[Anonymous]

Looking at only the top 25 research medical schools for comprising the best colleges for preparation is a problem when nearly half of doctors go into primary care. There’s a ranking for best primary care schools but that’s ignored by College Transitions.

A bigger problem, though, is that having a cut off for medical school doesn’t make the kind of sense it does for other fields. There are med schools that aren’t in the top 50 for either research or primary care with acceptance rates below 3%.

A more useful approach would be to list colleges whose students have the top acceptance rates to any med school. That’s typically how the best colleges themselves speak of med school matriculation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Looking at only the top 25 research medical schools for comprising the best colleges for preparation is a problem when nearly half of doctors go into primary care. There’s a ranking for best primary care schools but that’s ignored by College Transitions.

A bigger problem, though, is that having a cut off for medical school doesn’t make the kind of sense it does for other fields. There are med schools that aren’t in the top 50 for either research or primary care with acceptance rates below 3%.

A more useful approach would be to list colleges whose students have the top acceptance rates to any med school. That’s typically how the best colleges themselves speak of med school matriculation.

For that matter, Kaiser’s medical school isn’t ranked in either category but has an acceptance rate below 1%. (Around 0.4% actually.)

[Anonymous]

“ A more useful approach would be to list colleges whose students have the top acceptance rates to any med school.”

Private schools discourage average students from applying. That’s why their acceptance rates are so high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“ A more useful approach would be to list colleges whose students have the top acceptance rates to any med school.”

Private schools discourage average students from applying. That’s why their acceptance rates are so high.

If an average student is very unlikely to be admitted, isn’t sharing that info useful? The med school application process is extremely time consuming and grueling. Students often put other career options on hold when applying. It involves much more than just filling out the applications themselves. Better to have a sober view of one’s prospects before investing that time, no? There’s a difference between discouraging and disallowing. Colleges should provide grad school and early career advising to those who seek it. An advisor who offers zero encouragement of one path over another (or no discouraging of any paths relative to others) sounds more like a clerk.

But regardless I think all that is peripheral to the earlier point. If a high school student is asking themselves “what colleges will increase my chances of going to med school if I choose to apply in 4 years?”, I think it’s less useful to use a list that cuts off at schools with, say, an average of 2-3% admit rates than to use info that includes those bottom feeding high single digit acceptance rate schools. (Sarcasm alert; the point is pretty much all medical schools are ultra selective.)