Maybe controversial, but I think comlex pass rates are better metrics.
Match lists are like tea leaves. I know plenty of people from med school who could have specialized that ended up choosing rural FM. They came in wanting to do it and did it. It’s hard to imagine on sdn where everybody seems to want derm and ortho. But there really is a sizable chunk of students at every school that actually want to do primary care. There used to be a frequent poster on here with 250+ step1 who chose IM, specifically community IM.
Conversely, everyone knows people who weren’t successful in the match because they had absolutely no business applying to that specialty. People with board scores below the 50th percentile, no research, mediocre clinical grades, and a generic letter of rec from a community preceptor will just apply ENT or ortho every year. I promise no one told them that was a good idea. Then they soap into FM.
In both of these examples, students ended up in rural primary care programs and it had nothing to do with the school.