See, I loved the housing for first years. It depends what matters to you. I really want to live in a dorm because I love "the atmosphere" like you get in undergrad (I still live in the dorm after 4 years at a school where hardly anyone stays on campus after 1st year)--it's how I work best at meeting people, plus I don't have to be bothered to cook and clean. But their rooms there are smaller than most places, yup, and not so big. I also loved the spirit of the oldness of the building. Kinda cool. I learn from lectures well, and I thought the students there really felt like they were mastering the material. And everybody I talked to (including my interviewer) was just so EXC?TED about medicine, which I only saw apart from them at Yale (which I also loved but is just a completely different environent). Plus I love neuro, peds, and surgery, which are kind of the things they're tops in. My interview ended up going >1.5 hours, and my interviewer really knew my file and I felt like took a lot of time to get to know me, so I didn't feel slighted in the least. Plus I didn't interview until weeks after the date they gave me, partially because the letter got stuck up after September 11, but they were really nice adn didn't even give it a second thought, on top of which I personally gave them the WRONG DATE for my interview (written in an e-mail by me was a day of the week that didn't correspond to the date), so it was actually scheduled a day earlier, but my interviewer himself actually caught the mistake in my file, and when I didn't show up the day earlier, they politely e-mailed asking what was going on and told me immediately when I called to panic that it was no biggie, how 'bout same time same place tomorrow? Would love to hear any other experiences, though, because it's so hard to know from such brief encounters!
