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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other than Ivy schools, why does it matter what 4 year you attend if most people need a graduate degree?

Also, if you don't go to grad school what benefit does a higher ranked college get you? Really curious because I feel like I am missing something?[/quote]If you want to go to a top medical specialty/academic medicine, then yes. The top residencies are biased towards the top medical schools which are biased towards the top universities [/quote]
Indeed they are. Students at top25 research med schools can go into any specialty they want, or primary care: all doors are open: these schools match residents to the top residency hospitals for each field every year and with ease. There is no tiering and they do not gate the students: even students at the bottom match to top surgical specialties. Not surprisingly, most of the top ones are affiliated with top schools. Below the top25 and down to about 50-60 is close, one can still match into any field but the chances of getting CHOP or Boston childrens for Pediatrics is much less likely. Below the top 100 (research) med schools, and for all of the non-research med schools, there are many fields that are essentially not possible: no dermatology, no neurosurgery, no interventional rads, and others. There is heavy gating to the point of some fields never having a student match into them in the history of the school. Almost everyone has to do primary care.  Most med students do not know what they want to do until they see all of the specialties. These hospitals do not have transplant surgery, specialized oncologists, ophtho, neurosurgery….or all the pediatric subspecialties…medical students do not get exposure to all the fields and thus will not be able to match in a program that will lead to that career.  
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