While I’ve written before about my (and Malcom Gladwell’s) hesitation with school rankings, I do reluctantly use them in listing where my clients have been accepted because they are more illustrative than alphabetic order.
Please note that the top 25 schools are all represented on the Insider accepted list (plus many, many more).
If you are a previous Insider medical school admissions client and you do not see all of the schools that accepted you on the list, email me.
There’s an interesting Malcolm Gladwell article in the latest New Yorker on the pitfalls of U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings. Gladwell’s points regarding the deficiencies of a system that tries to be “comprehensive and heterogeneous” and the flimsiness of quality proxies can be applied to medical school rankings as well.
Despite their many shortcomings, however, I do use U.S. News and World Report’s medical school rankings on my website because they are more descriptive than alphabetic order in listing where my clients have been accepted.
Dr. Finkel is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. On completing her residency at Harvard, she was asked to stay on as faculty at Harvard Medical School and spent five years teaching at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital. She was appointed to the Assistant Residency Director position for the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency where she reviewed countless applications, personal statements and resumes. Read more
