- Joined
- Oct 23, 2016
- Messages
- 41
- Reaction score
- 39
Sitting on a couple waitlists but would like to start thinking about the potential choice between the places I've been accepted:
Career goals:
-Match into competitive specialty in academic hospital in NYC
-Potentially go into health administration later in career
Personal preferences:
-Be close to SO and family (NYC)
University of Michigan
Pros:
-Top 10 med school (great research opps, reputation, etc.)...one caveat maybe being that they don't match a ton of people in NYC
-Students seemed very happy/administration seems really in touch with students
-New curriculum (12 month pre-clinical- although I'm not sure if this is exactly a pro or not)
-Ann Arbor a nice college town
-MD/MBA (very reputable MBA program)
Cons:
-A plane ride away from SO
-I don't like cold winters
Stony Brook
Pros:
-In-state tuition (saving 15K a year)
-Close to family and SO
-Good research opps, potentially better than I think its USNWR rank would suggest
-Ambitious new expansion, building new hospital pavilion, cancer research building, etc.
-Good match list for NY-area residencies (where I'd like to be)
Cons:
-MD/MBA option, but MBA not reputable (most likely wouldn't pursue)
-Not the reputation of UMich
Unknowns:
-Happiness of the student body (hard to gauge on interview day)
Dartmouth:
Pros:
-Small class size (lot of individualized attention)
-Solid reputation and good match list in the Northeast (would likely want to match in NYC)
-MD/MBA (great MBA)
-Dartmouth Institute (interested in health policy)
Cons:
-Middle of nowhere
-Cold winters
-Not the reputation of UMich (although good match stats so I don't know how relevant this is)
Please refrain from simply stating the name of the school you think I should choose without reasons, thanks! Would love to hear from attendings, residents and/or current medical students, but all opinions welcome.
Career goals:
-Match into competitive specialty in academic hospital in NYC
-Potentially go into health administration later in career
Personal preferences:
-Be close to SO and family (NYC)
University of Michigan
Pros:
-Top 10 med school (great research opps, reputation, etc.)...one caveat maybe being that they don't match a ton of people in NYC
-Students seemed very happy/administration seems really in touch with students
-New curriculum (12 month pre-clinical- although I'm not sure if this is exactly a pro or not)
-Ann Arbor a nice college town
-MD/MBA (very reputable MBA program)
Cons:
-A plane ride away from SO
-I don't like cold winters
Stony Brook
Pros:
-In-state tuition (saving 15K a year)
-Close to family and SO
-Good research opps, potentially better than I think its USNWR rank would suggest
-Ambitious new expansion, building new hospital pavilion, cancer research building, etc.
-Good match list for NY-area residencies (where I'd like to be)
Cons:
-MD/MBA option, but MBA not reputable (most likely wouldn't pursue)
-Not the reputation of UMich
Unknowns:
-Happiness of the student body (hard to gauge on interview day)
Dartmouth:
Pros:
-Small class size (lot of individualized attention)
-Solid reputation and good match list in the Northeast (would likely want to match in NYC)
-MD/MBA (great MBA)
-Dartmouth Institute (interested in health policy)
Cons:
-Middle of nowhere
-Cold winters
-Not the reputation of UMich (although good match stats so I don't know how relevant this is)
Please refrain from simply stating the name of the school you think I should choose without reasons, thanks! Would love to hear from attendings, residents and/or current medical students, but all opinions welcome.