Dartmouth or UMass?

[CopperStripes]

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I hear Dartmouth is better if you want to go into academic medicine, UMass has a great reputation for primary care - but I'm really not sure what I want to do at this point. Is the low tuition at UMass worth it if I decide down the road that I want to go into academic medicine?

Are there any other arguments for either school that I should consider (aside from location and climate)? Please provide your insight. Thanks, ya'll, I really appreciate this. It's a hard decision.

 

[Orthodoc40]

I hear Dartmouth is better if you want to go into academic medicine, UMass has a great reputation for primary care - but I'm really not sure what I want to do at this point. Is the low tuition at UMass worth it if I decide down the road that I want to go into academic medicine?

Are there any other arguments for either school that I should consider (aside from location and climate)? Please provide your insight. Thanks, ya'll, I really appreciate this. It's a hard decision.

Well, you can get into academic medicine if you go to UMass, so if you liked it better, that's not the only reason to choose Dartmouth over it. But there may be other reasons to choose Dartmouth over UMass - such as, you liked it better, you felt the class was more diverse, you felt like you'd fit in with the students better, you would like to try living in a new area, if you ran the numbers, maybe you realized that the cost difference wasn't all that big...

Not saying any of this is true, just giving some reasons. Both are great schools, neither will limit you.