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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]16:03 It's a fact. A student accept to Harvard or Stanford considers Cambridge versus Baltimore or Palo Alto versus Baltimore.[/quote]

No, it's not a "fact," although you may wish it so. In real life, where would-be med students fall all over themselves to attend an institution as prestigious as Hopkins, there's little "selling" involved. In real life, where would-be residents fall all over themselves to work at a hospital like Hopkins, the only sales pitch is "It's Hopkins." I repeat: you clearly don't know any physicians, or at least any that got into top schools/ residency programs.

And no, I didn't attend Hopkins so I have absolutely no dog in this fight.[/quote]

Different PP (agreeing with you).  I *DID* go to Hopkins as an undergrad and I worked at the hospital for 5 years before moving south to the DC metro area.  I have seen and heard of people who have driven themselves very, very hard to get into the medical program at JHU.  From several friends in the medical field, they have known many colleagues who sacrificed a lot to get into that program.  Hopkins has several post graduate fields which are among the most difficult programs to get into.  Hopkins doesn't have to sell Baltimore.  There are many, many, many students out there who don't care what the area around the university is like if they can get into these most prestigious programs.  The medical program is one where there are literally hundreds of applications for every position.  Nationally post graduate medical programs have about a 43% acceptance rate (43% of those offered spots, take them).  Hopkins has about a 68% acceptance rate.  Hopkins accepts approximately 4% of the annual applicant pool.  This hardly sounds like a school that needs to "sell" it's programs.  It is arguably the very best medical program in the nation.  It also has the top ranked biomedical engineering program in the nation.  There are several other disciplines where this is the program to get into, if you can.[/quote]

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