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The Best Medical Schools, 1999 Edition (Annual)

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I saw this book in the store and it looked like a good place to start for chosing a med school. I quickly discovered that there were countless erros in it, though. Apparently you need a 4.3 gpa to go U. of Illinois among other great mistakes. The mistakes were so numerous that I didn't feel I could even trust the numbers which looked reasonable. The book did have some useful information, but a lot of it looked like it was copied right out of the MSAR. Buy that instead!

My parents have been buying me this book almost every year since i was in 10th grade (haven't had the heart to tell them I don't need or want it anymore). it does contain some useful information, but as another reviewer said, it's right out of the Medical School Admission Requirements published by the AAMC. I have about 5 editions of "The Best Medical Schools", and I can tell you that you would be better off getting the MSAR.

I bought this book from Amazon.com, while searching for this type of books a few days back.I read the review at Amazon.com site and the name of "Princeton" all sounded attractive.I ordered it.

Now, to read this book - you really have to be an expert or go to a school to learn how to interpret the book. 1. There are 124 Medical schools in USA and the details of all of them is spread in around 230 pages and can you believe it, it has no index and the schools are arranged alphabetically - if you are looking for school in one State only. You have no mechanism except to go through all the 230 pages. 2. Look at the numbers - Candiadate applied, percentage interviewed and percentage enrolled the numbers appear erroneous - after a thorough research I found out that percentage intervied is percentage of total applied but percentage enrolled is OF the percentage interviewed and so on. Now if you are looking in details of Medical schools sit for a night and calculate and then your book may be bit useful. 3. Now you want to find out the class size of freshers - read at least two pages per school - Lucky if you can find in all of them. I feel, I lost my money - I wish if some how I could return it and get my money back.