Belmont vs. Roseman UPDATED FOR NEW FINANCIAL AID INFO

[rawrosaur]

Roseman:

Pros:

• P/F
• West Coast, Close to amazing national parks
• Great community of peers
• Step 1 after core clerkships?
• Low humidity and delicious heat (ty back pain)
• Virtual anatomy lab (supposedly takes less time than a cadaver lab)
• $33k scholarship all 4 years = COA = $236k

Cons:

• First class with no real home program, supposedly terrible hospital system in Nevada

Belmont:

Pros:

• 65k scholarship = Total COA ~ $350k
• Close to family (but there are direct flights from LV to my hometown)
• Established hospital system for clinicals
• One class exists before me so I get one year of heads up
• Faculty come from programs from Vanderbilt, Tulane, Harvard, Duke, UCLA, University of Missouri-Columbia, one guy had his residency at Harvard

Cons:

• Step 1 before core clerkships?
• Letter grades, and they show the range of their weekly quiz grades to the class
• I have a love-hate relationship with the South
• Any cons that may be associated with rotations occurring at HCA hospitals

Summary: Are Belmont's cons worth the pros? Are there any pros to Belmont I may be missing out on?
Could anyone from Nevada comment on the healthcare landscape?
Could anyone from Tennessee talk about Nashville?

Thanks!

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[DoneDone3451]

Belmont is what I would take here.

I am from Nevada, the healthcare landscape is ****, but improving slowly. There are always risks with going to a school and being a part of their first class. Moreover, Roseman is still charging full price tuition for their first class, there will undoubtedly be hiccups with the new curriculum that one cannot predict. Roseman also does not have a cadaver lab, their anatomy lab is virtual.

 

[husky12345]

I've interviewed at both schools -- personally would go to Belmont in a heartbeat, loved learning more about Nashville and the campus is so beautiful, but also you're going to be super close to Vanderbilt (not sure how the research opportunities would be for Belmont med students), but Vanderbilt is a T5 med school!