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Personal Finance (Not Investing) • Medical school (DO school) - Are we thinking right?

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It's funny reading these from people tangentially familiar with the process. Matched med student starting residency in a few months fwiw

Firstly, since she got in somewhere she basically has to go. If she applies again they'll ask if she's ever gotten into medical school before and look for an explanation of why she didn't go and "because it was a DO school" isn't really an acceptable answer. Allegedly that blacklists you - either way it's not worth the risk.

The real question is why the heck she only applied to 7 MD schools. She should've applied to at least 25 and likely 30+ if she wanted to maximize her chances of getting in.. bad advising there. For med school and residency you really want to apply extremely broadly and I would not have accomplished my professional goals if I didn't do that for both med school and residency - but a lot of people don't seem to get that. Oh well, better for me :D

You'll see DOs in virtually every specialty but it really suffers from selection bias. It's just straight up harder to match the more competitive specialties and if you do you're probably not going to the high-ranked or very desirably locales period, even if you're the best applicant. It's a perception thing and you'll see plenty of programs that have NEVER matched a DO. It sucks but it is what it is.

Also no one thinks DOs aren't or can't be great doctors, that's a silly point to even address, since even at prestigious MD schools people just teach themselves through online 3rd-party resources and residency is where you really learn to be a doc.

Statistics: Posted by Young Boglehead — Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:23 pm — Replies 44 — Views 3875



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