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I know there's a very small window of time in April/May for schools to hold 2nd look weekends, so the overlap is inevitable, but how do people decide where to go?
I've talked to current med students who hopped around the country on one weekend visiting each school for 1 day - that doesn't seem too cost-effective or worthwhile... how much can you really tell about a place in such a rushed day?
I have 5 acceptances, and the revisit weekends of my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th choice (I don't even know in what order) are on the same weekend.
Should I not even go to any of them, and commit to my current front-runner school? What if revisiting another school actually changes my mind and this one's no longer my front-runner?
Should I see which one's the least expensive to fly to and go to that one? Should I (seriously?!) try to hit 2 in one weekend?
Then there's the issue of in-state tuition vs possible merit scholarships that I [probably wont get, and] probably won't find out about until after 2nd look is over.
Anybody else trying to be in multiple places at once?
I've talked to current med students who hopped around the country on one weekend visiting each school for 1 day - that doesn't seem too cost-effective or worthwhile... how much can you really tell about a place in such a rushed day?
I have 5 acceptances, and the revisit weekends of my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th choice (I don't even know in what order) are on the same weekend.
Should I not even go to any of them, and commit to my current front-runner school? What if revisiting another school actually changes my mind and this one's no longer my front-runner?
Should I see which one's the least expensive to fly to and go to that one? Should I (seriously?!) try to hit 2 in one weekend?
Then there's the issue of in-state tuition vs possible merit scholarships that I [probably wont get, and] probably won't find out about until after 2nd look is over.
Anybody else trying to be in multiple places at once?