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mine has a gym available to students and a lot of places I've toured, I think, have offered them too. I've honestly found it really convenient. Honestly it should be really low down on your list of factor in choosing a school unless you're really into lifting and the school is in a rural area with no gyms period.

If not a lot of apartments have gyms. And if neither your school nor apartment have it then you'll just have to cower in fear of that lunk alarm, I guess...

I do remember LECOM busing students on the tour out to its fitness center, which while free to students, took an extra hour. Everyone went... probably because they were afraid of looking disinterested in the school.
 
Osteosaur said:
mine has a gym available to students and a lot of places I've toured, I think, have offered them too. I've honestly found it really convenient. Honestly it should be really low down on your list of factor in choosing a school unless you're really into lifting and the school is in a rural area with no gyms period.

If not a lot of apartments have gyms. And if neither your school nor apartment have it then you'll just have to cower in fear of that lunk alarm, I guess...

I do remember LECOM busing students on the tour out to its fitness center, which while free to students, took an extra hour. Everyone went... probably because they were afraid of looking disinterested in the school.
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Their fitness center was an hour away?
Ain't nobody got time for that.
 
One school I interviewed at has an extensive gym available for free to all students. The other had a very small area that was a “gym” but really wasn’t more than a small room where they play ping pong and have a few free weights and a pull-up bar. So not all schools have a real gym available for students.
 
At my medical school, we had access to the university rec center as students included in our fees. At my current institution for residency (which is a graduate program-only institution, no undergrads), there's a rec center which students have access to. Faculty and staff also have access but have to pay a monthly fee.
 
Some medical schools share a campus with a university, and there's a gym to use that's generally free. Some med schools are in hospitals, and there may or may not be a gym that may or may not be free. Some medical schools are off on their own in the middle of nowhere and likely don't have a good gym to use.
 
A school I got accepted to did not have a gym on campus but gives all students a membership to the local YMCA.
 
Osteosaur said:
mine has a gym available to students and a lot of places I've toured, I think, have offered them too. I've honestly found it really convenient. Honestly it should be really low down on your list of factor in choosing a school unless you're really into lifting and the school is in a rural area with no gyms period.

If not a lot of apartments have gyms. And if neither your school nor apartment have it then you'll just have to cower in fear of that lunk alarm, I guess...

I do remember LECOM busing students on the tour out to its fitness center, which while free to students, took an extra hour. Everyone went... probably because they were afraid of looking disinterested in the school.
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It would be a tie breaker.
 
The gym at Mayo Minnesota > all other gyms with free membership for 1st year med school students and incentives to keep the membership for years 2-4 founded by the creator of SlimFast:

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I brought a full gym to campus and it helped me blow off some steam before and after big exams. Not sure why I fretted. I always seemed to do quite well on them.

Working out doesn’t hurt you on the female front either.
 
Lol that free made me laugh a little. Nothing is free in med world!
Every school I went to interviews at n=4 had gyms. FAU and Nova has huge fancy gyms but integrated with their UG. DMU has a nice gym and basketball court, KCU gym was small but w/e it’s a gym? (Bigger is better, better is better)
 
Every school I interviewed at had one (n=5) obviously some are more fancy than others.
 
Most schools I visited have some sort of gym on campus and/or access to the undergrad gym. One gave students access to the YMCA nearby and one school w/o an undergrad provided discounted memberships to a local gym chain
 
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