I chose KCOM over CCOM first and foremost for basically my gut instinct. When I went to KCOM, I felt more welcome then I did at CCOM. I really felt comfortable with the interviewers and they made me feel relaxed. They were the kind of people I feel that I could go to all the time if I had questions in class. I did not get that same feeling at CCOM. The other reason that I chose KCOM over CCOM was because CCOM is in the middle of transitioning and I did not want to enter into a class where they were in the middle of trying to work out some kinks. If you all don't know right now, let me explain what I mean. CCOM use to have all classroom based textbook type learning in their first two years and not expose the students to any clinical based learning until their 3rd and 4th year. Supposedly the COMLEX board exam I used to be all just questions over things you would find directly in a text book and they excluded all clinical questions until the 2nd exam. Well, I guess last year, the boards were changed without them notifying the schools and they started to include clinical questions. Since CCOM did not teach clinicals in their first two years, consequently, CCOM's first year boards passing rate dropped last year. When I interviewed there, I asked them what they were doing about this drop in passing rate and they said that they are revamping their schedule around to start to include some clinical based learning. I asked the students how they felt about them messing with their schedules and they were not all that enthused about it. I quote one girl as saying "I use to love it here until they started messing with my schedule but hopefully they will have it fixed when you guys come next year, HOPEFULLY" I did not like this saying one bit. The schools are almost equal in comparison and if I had been applying a couple of years down the road instead of now, I may have given CCOM better consideration but I don't want to be a guinea pig for a school, I would rather go to a school that has their schedule well established and since KCOM already taught clinicals in their first 2 years, they didn't need to rearrange their schedule to adjust for the new COMLEX test. So that is my overall opinion. Hope that helps you make a decision.
Lindsay