A little vent I wanted to put here

I've never understood the obsession behind getting into a "T20" school, and it feels like so many people on here are either "T20 or I am a failure". I honestly believe that "prestige" as a whole is absolute BS and I've noticed in the real world that where you do your schooling does not affect the kind of clinician you are.

This might come from attending an undergrad where they produce nearly 1000 premeds so I'm definitely burnt out from the neuroticism. I know everybody and their mama wants to go into underwater neonatal ultra-invasive neurosurgery when they start medical school but the reality is that it's the physicians that grinded the most of their opportunities in medical school that earn those spots, not the fact you went to Yale and coasted off of prestige.

Same with the damn degree's too, I work with residents and attendings that come from different schools across the country, both MD and DO, and there is no difference between school ranking and ability to be a physician. I believe that If you put in the work, you'll make the best difference in your future patient's lives.

Maybe this comes from working in the emergency department for 2 years where ideas like prestige and hierarchy go to die, but getting into ANY medical school is an accomplishment in itself and don't let anybody put you down about that.