For those of y'all choosing between the three Texas schools, what are you basing your decision on? I keep oscillating between them! I think I am leaning toward Houston but Baylor and San Antonio seem to have a little better reputations. Just wanted to pick your brains...
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Baylor is #1 for me. Cheapest by far, I live in Dallas, my wife loves it here, I'm an URM and their message truly spoke to me. It was my top choice I just didn't expect to get in since I lack upper divisions. Those clinical requirements are really spectacular and I don't want to risk needing a GPR. Gigantic patient pool, I have friends and family here....it just makes sense.
San Antonio I loved. The curriculum was nice, students were doing some cool procedures. The folk seemed nice and happy. I think this was the curriculum I most enjoyed, and wanted the chance to experience.
Houston, well...It's too bad it's in Houston. I can't live in Houston, my wife is from South Texas and
despises Houston. Nothing needs to be said about the new bldg. Amazing. And their new approach to curric excited me. I loved this school too. If you can see past Dr. Pierpont's...zeal, then you'll see it is a good school from the foundation and up.
This "reputation" stuff is dumb imo. All the schools have good clinical requirements, and if you want to excel you can bring in pts. at all of them IIRC.
Notice I mostly picked based on things besides the actual school. Why? Because they're great schools and I felt something in all of them appealed to me, so It wasn't really about that for me. I wanted to know where I'd be the most comfortable with the lowest stress levels for 4 years, because ultimately, that will determine how well I do in school.
