Stay at Rutgers or Transfer to Penn??

astor
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:53:12 +0000

To MolSysBio: there is something wrong when he’s following a misconception. He clearly stated in his post that he’s going mainly for the brand name which leads to a better residency. If you read my post, you’d understand that to be magical thinking. Residency depends mostly on USMLE scores and performance, not name brand. I didn’t check out the other post that agreed with me, but apparently it shows data that even shows non-ivy-leauge-top-brand-names make it into competitive residencies.

It’s ok if you go with a school based on name, if the reason you want to go isn’t based off of ignorance.