When Glenn N. Cummings met with Bryn Mawr College students recently to discuss preparing for the medical school admission exam, he casually mentioned some news that stopped the meeting cold.
in identifying future physicians who will do the best job of treating patients from underserved communities, most of the schools say., dean J. Larry Jameson wrote that while Penn is proud of its performance on the qualities that U.S. News measures, the process “reinforces a legacy approach to training and a narrow, subjective perception of schools by their peers.”
Even those med schools that withdrew before the deadline may somehow be included, using whatever data is publicly available. U.S. News already has said it would do so in response to a similar flap: when Penn and other top-ranked universitiesA medical school’s place on the U.S.
“The rankings don’t serve students as much as students think,” she said. “We really try to push back on that.”
It's about getting info to the consumers not the schools! This is a mistake.