Don't forget to think about other opportunities at the schools. I don't know about PCOM, but Nova offers these:
Research Fellowship: Complete work on a research project between your second and third years of school. You can either work on a project of your own, or work with faculty on their on-going projects. I believe that the school picks up your tuition for your last two years afterward, and you get first choice for rotation sites for your clinical years.
OMM Fellowship: Spend the year between your second and third year treating patients one-on-one with our OMM faculty. The OMM fellows do the bulk of the treatment in our OMM and sports medicine clinics, as well as assisting in teaching our OPP labs. In addition, afterward your third and fourth year tuition is payed for, and again you get priority in selecting your clinical site.
DO/MPH Program: Nova offers the opportunity to get concurrent degrees in DO and an MPH. Best part is, if you complete your MPH by the time you graduate, there is no cost to you! The classes are all in the evenings or online, and is very do-able in the schedule!
Other combined programs: There are programs for doing combined DO along with DMD, JD and MBA. I don't know much about any of those programs, but they're there.
There is also the "nice" weather...
Although it probably DOES beat Philli!
I'm sure there's more...but I should probably be studying for finals and NOT fooling around on SDN!
Nate.