Medicine: CALS, CAS or CHE?

quynh2007
Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:58:47 +0000

i’m just question who gets the right to put a certain school as number one? is there a race and whoever crosses the finish line first wins? no, the factors that go into these ranking are waay more superficial. If you ask medical students and even doctors themselves, they will undoubtedly tell you that those ranking mean very little. so what does this mean? those rankings are done purely for profit to the pre-med and their respective parents. why should med school x be #1 because it gets .2million more in NIH funding than med school y? that doesn’t say ANYTHING about the quality of the medical school because in fact those medical students do not ever benefit from it.

so, that was my argument, and I don’t think necessarily conflicts with texasmathwhiz, but just questioning US NEWS in general.