Best 162 Medical Schools 2006 (Graduate School Admissions Gui) [Paperback]

Princeton Review (Author)

Book Description

Series: Graduate School Admissions Gui | Publication Date: October 11, 2005

The Princeton Review gives you an insider’s perspective on the nation’s top medical schools. In this informative guide, we provide rankings based on student surveys (just like those made popular by our top-selling Best 361 Colleges guide!), as well as student quotations about classes, professors, social scenes, and more. Plus, we cover the ins and outs of admissions and financial aid.

This invaluable guide also includes an index of all the school featured with the most pertinent facts on each. And we’ve topped it all of with our “School Says” section—in which participating schools can talk back by providing their own profiles. The Princeton Review gives students all of the information they need to find the perfect match in a medical school.

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Review (October 11, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375764992
• ISBN-13: 978-0375764998
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,722,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor compilation., December 9, 2005

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madbay (Moscow, Indonesia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best 162 Medical Schools 2006 (Graduate School Admissions Gui) (Paperback)

I was expecting this book to go above and beyond what the Medical School Admissions Requirements provides (published by the AAMC). Instead, it fell short in several basic areas, and I decided to promptly return it. To be honest, I'm a little angry with TPR for putting out such a mediocre guide. Don't waste your time--just buy the MSAR--it's a much richer source of information.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive Review, Not Shame for Princeton, April 18, 2008

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B. Humphrey (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best 162 Medical Schools 2006 (Graduate School Admissions Gui) (Paperback)

While Bastyr University is one of multiple medical schools in the United States to provide education for naturopathic medical doctors, it is far from a science that should be dismissed as "quackery." The medical education received by naturopathic medical doctors specializes in the training of primary care physicians who are willing to pursue whatever avenue possible in order to heal their patients. Naturopathic medicine recognizes the individuality of patients and seeks to treat those patients as effectively as possible. Many times a simple change in diet or herbal remedy can fix these issues.

Allopathic is not derogatory, by the way. Allopathic just means treating differently, while homeopathy means treating with the same. Back when the the terms were coined allopaths were doing things like bloodletting in order to treat disease. Bloodletting did not have any correlation with the disease, hence it was termed "allopathy."

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overall a good guide, June 20, 2006

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J. Yu (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best 162 Medical Schools 2006 (Graduate School Admissions Gui) (Paperback)

Being a non-traditional applicant I found this guide very helpful- it has a lot of useful information on preparing for med school including MCAT, applications, essays, interviewing, etc. Another bonus- it has a section explaining the differences and similarities between allopathic & osteopathic med schools which other guides don't cover adequately. The only negative about this guide is the applicant stats on the profiled schools- it isn't up to date but I guess this can be remedied by referring to the annual guides published by AAMC or AOA.