10 Most Popular Medical Schools

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Shey of CA 2:47AM February 11, 2012

i t is very hard to find the right school for my sun he want to be a doctor his is a n honer studant very hard working young man but we live in NY ,need help with tution , my son is aplying hime self i did not help at all coz i dont know hoe his father died long time ago please help

lina of NY 9:12AM February 09, 2012

People have already correctly pointed out that yield percentage alone is not an accurate measure of popularity. This article would be greatly improved - and likely the list itself would change dramatically - were the reasons the yield is high at each school examined. Yield can be high because of admissions selection criteria (e.g., the average student's profile) or because a school doesn't compete with other institutions for the same students.
For example, the reason the University of Washington and the University of North Carolina have high yields is likely considerably different than other schools on this list. No disrespect to the other schools but UW and UNC are elite medical schools - Top 20 or higher in research and primary care. They admit many students who also interview and are accepted to other top med schools. By virtue of being highly ranked and cheap (relative to their private peers), they retain a lot of at their acceptances.
I'm not sure the same can be said for the other schools on this list, though I'm sure they're fine medical schools. This article would present far more substantive information if it looked at yield in the context of peer competition for the same students.

uclaunc of NC 1:50PM January 31, 2012

As a current student at KUMC, I have to say that I am glad that I was accepted at KU. As far as what pedidoc says about our board scores, we do score lower on average on step 1 but above average on step 2. It is the nature of our curriculum. We are not a course based school. We are module based with each module being an overarching topic (ie. foundations of medicine, genetics and neoplasia, gi, brain and behavior, etc.).
Since we do not spend our entire first year, like some schools, on basic sciences, we do not score as high on those areas which is what step 1 focuses on. Instead we are a very clinically geared school that has us interacting with patients and doctors from month 1. This lends itself to better scores on step 2. Every module we have preceptor visits that have us performing histories and physical exams that cover our current coursework. (sexual history in sex and repro, abdominal exam in gi). We are also assigned a mentor that acts as an advisor for us and is assigned based on our personal career aspirations on admission that we meet with atleast once a semester.
Our basic science is scattered into each relevant module in our physiology lectures in the first week or two of the module along with anatomy. Then comes pathology and patient examination. The final week is generally topics that bring everything together. This includes treatment, diagnostic imaging, nutrition, and patient centered lectures.
Along with lecture we have problem based learning groups (physician supervised), small group discussion (physician supervised), anatomy lab, histopath lab (all slides available online whenever you like), clinical skills lab (with actors as practice patients), volunteer opportunities at student run free clinic (jaydoc), preceptor visits, and the occasional class presentation.
KU may take what others call "mediocre", but this is because the school is more concerned with being able to treat patients than primping its admission stats for the next MSAR. If you were able to get into a medical school you are already a small minority of the population, to try and further build a heiarchy is just splitting hairs and for the sake of building inflated egos.

g of KS 3:19PM August 06, 2011

can anybody plz tell me how med school at uc denver in colorado, ranks....as compared to schools like harvard or stanford...

mohns 5:31AM June 27, 2011

can anybody plz tell me how med school at uc denver in colorado, ranks....as compared to schools like harvard or stanford...

mohns 5:23AM June 27, 2011

I'm glad to see an Osteopathic medical school in the list. I've always gone to DO's and have found them more down to earth. They're less likely to push drugs and place more ephasis on nutrition, excersize

AndyStill of MI 3:31PM June 07, 2011

MSU OD college was #7 last year I wonder what Happen that the school is ranking # 14 this year. May one of the reason the spirits of the students that this school is breaking with some loser and incompetent professors who is still stuck in the old way of teaching. I hope this is a wake up call for the school to take a good and deep look at some of their professors, and may be hire better, young ones who are willing to teach not to redicule and put down their students.

Abdul of MI 8:50AM June 07, 2011

Yield percentage is something used by (some) admissions committees as a measure of the desirability of their program. There are schools that expend a lot of effort to keep their yield high by offering acceptances only to prospects that seem very likely to attend. This is why some people are such firm believers in the "Letter of Intent," where an applicant professes his or her undying love for a program, promising to forsake all other schools if offered an acceptance. Such a display of interest could mean a lot to an admissions committee that is concerned about its yield.
So it's not like using this statistic is USN's idea; it's already being used in the admissions process. Calling it a measure of "Popularity" is laughable. Of all the things one could attempt to infer from this list, popularity perhaps the most confounded by all of the variables that affect yield percentage.

Zealot of MI 10:21AM June 06, 2011

This is a list of the 10 schools that do the best job of selecting applicants who are the most likely to attend. That's all. All fine medical schools, but nothing to see here...move along.

Skepdoc of CO 10:42AM May 31, 2011