Any Thoughts?

[MDQ]

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Hey everyone...its pretty cool to read all of these opinions on different things and I think ultimately we are all on the right track.

Here's my situation I'd like some feedback on if you'd like to help out: I was fortunate enough to get into eight dental schools in december and I've managed to narrow them down to two. Assuming in 2007 I'll have graduated from one of these two schools, maybe everyone else in this situation has some thoughts I might not have considered otherwise.

I am either going to Columbia SDOS or MUSC in Charleston, SC. I am planning on taking a military scholarship so money and clinical preparation really aren't too large of concerns of mine (what I might not get clinically at Columbia, I'd definately pickup during military internships). But to me its a matter of lifestyle, Upper West Side and NYC versus the warm, victorian port town and beaches of Charleston, SC... That's a tough call, anybody out there relate to this decision. Thanks for any comments.

 

[orgirl]

How can you leave the south? Especially Charleston!
🙂
good luck! I am sure which ever you choose you will be happy, just for different reasons.
By the way this is one of the few threads that I have read that mentioned a Southern school!

 

[yosemitesam]

If it's a matter of lifestyle, I'd go with MUSC all the way. South Carolina is almost as nice a place to live as Georgia. 😉

 

[Joshua Tree]

It would be a no-brainer when they build the new facilities down in Charleston, but the last time I visited there the school looked very similar to the way it was when I interviewed almost 20 years ago!

But Charleston is great, people are nice, and great restuarants.

Then again, NY is something to experience. I was from Texas and went to school in the Northeast and am back in Texas. Personally, I loved that I spent 4 years there, got to experience a different "culture" and part of our country. When I settled down with the family, I came back home. It was a quick 4 years....
If cost isn't a problem, I'd do this: Columbia if I were going to specialize, Charleston for anything else.

Be happy, you are in a no-lose situation



By the way....you are correct with the military experience, by the time you are out, you will have a wealth of experience.