which ivy league has the BEST MED SCHOOL and why??

Question

which ivy league schools have the best med school and how to they compare to the other ive league?

Answer 1

U.S. News divides this category into "research" and "primary care". Their #1 school for research overall is Harvard, with #2 being the University of Pennsylvania. Both are Ivy League. When it comes to primary care, the order is the same - Harvard is the best of the Ivy League schools, with the University of Pennsylvania as #2. However, Harvard is only #13 in that category, and Penn #16. The #1 school for primary care is the University of Washington, clearly not an Ivy League school!

Answer 2

In all honesty, the capabilities you have expressed indicate that you possess the qualities multiple Ivy League schools search for. Colleges are now shifting their views of what an "exemplary" student means and are looking for well-rounded students to accept and enroll. The IB program is also a formidable and commanding mark on a college application that will certainly aid you in attracting the attention you need from Ivy League schools. Provided you maintain or improve your GPA, you have a solid chance at being accepted by an Ivy League Schools. I'm also pleased to say that contradictory to what others may believe, the GPA limits for Ivy League Schools are also flexible, and few actually use these GPA guidelines as "set-in-stone" policies; just because your GPA is, say, half a point lower than the average student at the College or University you are applying to, it does not imply that you have no chance whatsoever at being accepted. Even though the chances may be low, it's certainly possible - and it's never impossible.

Answer 3

John Hopkins is one of the best med school in the U.S. Eventough it is not an ivy it was ranked second from US News and world report worldwide as the best school of medicine. If you want a good med school ivy, I would pick Cornell, since it has a well known hospital near campus, where students could intern there.

Answer 4

There is no such thing as a "Best Medical School" from a medical education perspective. As far as the rankings go, you need to understand what criteria is used. One ranking system uses only the amount of research funding is given to the school. Another ranking method includes how many Medicaid and Medicare patients are seen. The US News and World Report includes such factors as parking spaces and cafeteria hours. The Association of American Medical Colleges, which is the official voice for all US medical schools, refuses to rank schools because there is no set criteria. However, since medical schools are a business and businesses like good marketing, all the top 'ranked' schools like to post their ranking on their web site. But the ranking isn't based on the quality of education.

Don't mistake the reputation of Harvard and Johns Hopkins (et al) as having been earned by the medical school. There isn't a dimes bit of difference in the quality of the education at Harvard versus the University of Indiana. All medical schools are accredited by the same authority and if one program produced superior results over another, the lesser program would immediately alter it's program to the better modality and if it didn't, it would lose its accreditation. That has never happened. All US medical students take the same medical licensing exams. If students from one school produced superior scores then all of the schools would adopt that school's program. There is no significant statistical difference in the medical licensing exam scores based on the school attended.

Once you are in medicine you will appreciate that nobody cares where you went to medical school. What is important to medical people is where you do your residency. The residency programs are a contributor to reputations, as well as the research programs and the medical centers associated with the schools. I use this example because it is the one I am most familiar with: Johns Hopkins has a residency program for Emergency Medicine. If you did your residency at Johns Hopkins in Emergecny Medicine you would get a good education. But everybody in medicine knows that the two best residency programs in Emergency Medicine are the programs at the University of Maryland and UCLA. So, having Johns Hopkins on your resume isn't as impressive as either of the other two, to medical people.

You can spend over $50,000 a year to go to Harvard medical school if you want. Or, you can spend, on average, $26,000 a year to attend your own state's university medical school. Either way you go, at the end of the four years you'll have the same education and it's your grades and exam scores that will get you into the residency program, not the name of the school you attended.

But you can pick a school that has the most parking spaces, if you want.

Answer 5

I only know about Harvard Med. I would say they are number one because they work with all the best hospitals in Boston area (Mass General, Brigham & Women's, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Beth Israel to name a few).

Since med schools are ranked by certain fields, the "best" Ivy med school depends on your reasons for looking them up. If you are looking to go into medical research, look at rankings and programs related to that field.

Answer 6

Johns Hokpkins is high up there, and it isn't an ivy league.

Answer 7

reseach vs. primary care? If research, Harvard Med, if primary care, then U of Washington

Answer 8

Yale is good, it's well known and prestigious.