spidyspidy
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decided! thanks
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Congrats to you too! You and Dragonite make good points. Definitely don't want to discount Yale because of match reasons, I think my concern is more about the lack of structure and if I would be the best fit for that!Disclosure: A at Hopkins, WL at Yale, no interview at Columbia
Congrats on an amazing cycle! You seriously can't go wrong.
Just posting to say I agree with Dragonite--look at Yale's match list. It's amazing.
I would just go where you feel most at home. You can't go wrong with any of these schools. I just want to make sure you aren't eliminating Yale because you are concerned about matching.
Best of luck in your decision!
Honestly, I don't have strong preferences. Probably either stay East Coast/Northeast or California, but I feel like any of the 3 schools would have decent connections to both regions.All are great choices with prestige being slight to Hopkins then Columbia then Yale imo, but to a point where it will not affect your career trajectory.
One thing I didn't consider when picking a medical school was that you wind up developing a professional network and a strong connection to the area around your medical school which paves a way to get a job there as an attending. Even outside of the 4 years of medical school, where would you most want to practice for/after residency?
Not that I necessarily have a representative sample either, but I've met tons of Hopkins med students who have interdisciplinary interests/research/etc. like public health, and bioethics, and music (all of which Hopkins has good schools for).
- Seemed like there was a strong focus on clinical training, but students weren’t as involved in interdisciplinary outside interests (narrative medicine, arts, travel for global health, etc.) – not sure if this is just the people I talked to or if the curriculum is more rigid like that?
Every Hopkins med student I've spoken to says that this is not true. In fact, one of them noted to me how he would sometimes see the undergrads looking so unhappy and was glad that the med school experience was the opposite.
- Heard rumors that Hopkins students are unhappy and overwhelmed?