His elaboration is going to consist of the stigma against DOs and match rates. I would disregard.
I'll even do you a solid and reiterate the points I discussed with the other poster in a PM. Here are the 100% relevant issues that warrant significant consideration when discussing MD vs DO acceptances and if you think they aren't important you are just out of your mind. You'll also find that none of my points refer to an MD/DO bias or match rates, so congrats on your idiotic statement.
1) The biggest downfall of every DO school with very few exceptions is the lack of an associated teaching hospital. DMU doesn't have one and doesn't have strong enough affiliations with the two large hospital systems in the area to consider them reliable. This isn't a huge issue for 3rd year if you end up at one of those two hospitals, but there's probably 40 total spots between the two? Out of 220 students. The rest of the 3rd year training sites are hit or miss and very few of them have significant residency or GME support.
2) the clinical training is subpar at best, which is par for the course when it comes to DO schools. Do we get trained well enough clinically to kind of function in 4th year? Yeah, but the majority of it is upon the student to make that happen.
3) 4th year is when you really find out why it sucks to be at a DO school. At DMU we are solely responsible for scheduling all of our rotations, not much different than MD, but the problem arises when you can't find rotations. Guess who can't help you because they don't have a teaching hospital? DMU. Guess who can help you because they have one? MD schools. I don't know of any MD school that doesn't have one or multiple strong affiliations where they have the ability to find you SOMETHING to rotate in.
4) This isn't a DO bias issue. It's an MD advantage and it's proven every single year. If you are a DO student, you have zero chance at the highest tier programs in all fields unless you have the lucky combo of excellent scores, significant amount of research, and on top of that you have a connection to the program somehow. And at the mid tier you will be expected to take the USMLE and do above average on it to have a chance. Now if you were an MD student, you can score average and even below average and high tier programs are still within your reach.
5) Research opportunities. This isn't even a close call. The opportunities at MD schools are far and above anything DMU has to offer. Does DMU have it? Yes but it limited fields and opportunities. You can find someone doing something in almost every field at every MD institution or someone who knows someone. That's not the case at DMU, you have what you have and there isn't much to find in the surrounding area either. You will have to reach out to Omaha and U of Iowa just to get a chance, both 2 hour drives making research involvement difficult in many ways.
This isn't even to paint a negative light of DMU. It is a great school and I'm happy I went to it, but it's a great school with limitations that shouldn't be overlooked if you are a good MD candidate. If I had the MD option I would have taken it in a heartbeat. Just my two cents so you can take it or leave it but I've been through all 4 years with the school and I've talked with tons of my classmates. Damn near every one of them would tell you the same thing. There are very very few circumstances that should warrant taking DMU or any DO acceptance over an MD acceptance.
Edit: I also welcome any and all PM's and/or discussion.