PriorRelief1
Full Member
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2020
- Messages
- 21
- Reaction score
- 34
I am beyond excited and lucky to have multiple acceptances. If anybody can help me make a decision please?
ARCOM
ARCOM
- Pros
- Community focused and tons of support from the state
- Closer to home (~3.5 - 4 hour drive)
- Tuition ($43k)
- Brand new research building (but unsure of the research opportunities available as the students I have talked to have not participated in any)
- Really nice facility with new technology
- Students and the surrounding community were nice when I visited
- Helix Curriculum (do not really know if its a pro)
- Do not have to move after 2 years, but could move for rotations
- No mandatory lecture if you fall below 80%
- Cons
- Newer school, but their first match list looks fairly good.
- So-So Complex and Step score but not the greatest. But new school so I'm sure they're working out the kinks in the curriculum
- Mandatory dress code
- I do not really know how to judge rotation sites but from what I read they have fairly good ones, with few of them having residency spots and able to auditions with UAMS
- Pros
- Very good board scores
- School has its own residency program
- Associated and have access to Campbell undergrad university
- Cheap COL
- Ample Research opportunities and possibly access to research at Duke, NC, or Wake Forest
- From what I read, nice facility with great Sims Lab, but I will not have a chance to visit campus before deposit due
- Student-run clinic and lots of volunteer opportunities
- Curriculum is 9-week blocks with 1 week breaks in between
- Cons
- 80% attendance policy/strict business casual dress code
- Further away from home
- More Expensive (~55k, although I do not know yet if I will receive any scholarships)
- Rural area ( I do not mind tho because I will have opportunity to move to bigger city like Charlotte and Raleigh after 2 years)
- I do not really know how to judge rotation sites again but from what I read they have fairly good ones as-well.
