So I have a good enough rank to get GSMC (KEM) in State Quota and a newer AIIMS (Except Nagpur and Mangalagiri) through AIQ . Among AIIMS I feel Gorakhpur is the best option for me.

Wanted some advice which one might be better for me

GSMC (KEM) -

Pros -

• Near to my home city
• Old college
• Top College in the state
• Better Clinical Exposure
• Better academics than most of the AIIMS
• Better Alumni network (if that matters)
• It's in Mumbai

Cons -

• No hostel allotment in First year, I will have to rent a place for one year
• The hostels that are allotted 2nd year onwards are also not so good, lack hygiene, congested places
• 250 seats per batch
• Climate in Mumbai is very much different from my city, not sure if I will adapt comfortably
• No proper mess system, I'll have to rely on Canteens and Tiffin services (Not so good according to what I've heard)

AIIMS Gorakhpur-

Pros-

• It's AIIMS so top notch infrastructure and facilities
• Better Hostel and mess
• 25% Institutional PG Quota in all the AIMS for PG
• Would be cheaper than KEM (also cheaper than living in Mumbai)
• Perhaps the AIIMS tag might be useful for USMLE or landing Internships in Foreign countries (Not thought about anything as such)
• College is less than 5kms from both Airport and Railway Station

Cons-

• Newer AIIMS (2019), just 2 batches passed out
• Gorakhpur is not as good as Mumbai
• Far from home (27 hrs via Train and 8 hrs via Flight*)
• City life won't be that great

The thing is that growing up, I had been a very privileged kid in many terms, I'm afraid whether I'll be able to adjust to the KEM living scenario, whereas in AIIMS all this might be easier. But again, one of our family doctors said that one will become a better doctor at KEM than a newer AIIMS.

Also I've heard about some new hostel building being made for KEM UG students, if anyone knows about it please let me know too.

If there are any seniors from these colleges, I'd love to ask some questions, please let me know in DM.

If you are already done with NEET and don't want to read all this, I'll suggest you to scroll down and just read the 3rd point, it will really be helpful if you do the action.

1) What is Survivorship Bias?

During the World War II the American military had a problem, their planes were being shot down. So they studied the planes that came back and mapped the bullet holes were concentrated on the returning planes.

Bullet holes were concentrated on the wings, the fuselage and the tail

They were about to reinforce those areas. But a statistician, Abraham Wald stopped them. He pointed out that they were looking at the wrong planes. The planes that came back survived getting hit in those area, which meant those areas can take damage and still make it home. The planes that never came back were hit somewhere else.

The engines and cockpit. The places where the bullet holes were missing in the surviving planes.

They were about to reinforce the wrong parts because they were only studying the survivors. This is SURVIVORSHIP BIAS.

the tendency of focusing upon things that made it through a selection process while overlooking everything that did not. The survivors are visible but the failures are silent and that silence distorts everything you think you know.

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We build our understanding by studying the success but success is only half the picture. The failures contain just as much information, often more. The real information is in the failures.

2) Correlation with NEET (or other Competitive Exams)

Everywhere you'll see people asking for tips from toppers. Every coaching, every AMA, every podcast and mentor is centered around toppers. They made it through, they made less to no mistakes. No one asks the person who didn't make it through. There are people who were brilliant at some point of time but made some blunders that were beyond recovery later on, they have some real advices about what you must not do during your prep, what mistakes they made that were the reasons for them not getting good enough ranks. Their story remains unsaid most of the times. You learn "what not to do during your prep"

3) For Past Aspirants

I'd like you to list down all the mistakes you made during you prep, how they affected you and how you recovered from them (if you did). Doesn't matter whether you are selected or not, every single experience can prove to be helpful for someone else who'll appear for NEET in the future.

I'll be leaving for my college in 3 months. I thought of learning a new sport, and I feel tennis is fine. Can someone recommend me any tennis academies near Pathardi/Indira Nagar or somewhere near these? I want them to teach and let me practice so that I can just be kinda good with the game. My friend will accompany me. If you know any, then pls share. Thankyou