RealHastaLaMuerteBabyyyy
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Hey everyone!
Some background: I love the mission of both schools, and they both do fulfill their goal of helping the underserved. I grew up in both areas (south central LA & Inland Empire) so I’ve experienced both environments and am not necessarily motivated by city/weather since both are in SoCal & I love both cities. I am interested in going into primary care and for residency I do want to stay in California. After researching the educational curriculum of both programs extensively, I found that I like both about the same (I lean a bit more towards UCR’s curriculum with UCLA undergoing some drastic changes next year). UCR is offering a full tuition scholarship (all 4 years), and I already live in the I.E. with family (basically food + rent is free), whereas Drew/UCLA is offering to cover about 60% of tuition plus I need loans to cover the rest of the tuition & housing fees (about 120K over the 4 years).
Drew/UCLA
Pros
- Prestige/dream school
- Class of 28 students within the Drew program
- Competitive residency matches all over CA
- Clinical preceptorship 1st year in primary care, and a unique preceptorship 3rd year in specialty of interest
Cons
- 120K debt (plus 20K debt from undergrad)
- Need to compete for global heath opportunities (and overall competition with large class size)
- With changing curriculum, I will be competing for clinical rotation sites as an MS3 with MS2’s
UCR
Pros
- Would basically graduate debt-free
- Small class (~70)
- Seems that every year more & more students match into competitive residencies for primary care throughout California (Stanford, UCLA, UCSF, USC, etc)
- 3-year long clinical preceptorship in primary care
- global health opportunities seems easier to obtain
Cons
- newer school, not as established as other UC’s
- no primary hospital
Summary: I am leaning heavily towards UCR because it seems that it can provide me with the same CA residency opportunities that Drew/UCLA could, and my medical education would basically be free. But I’m afraid of the possible opportunities lost by not choosing Drew/UCLA, given the prestige of the school.
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Some background: I love the mission of both schools, and they both do fulfill their goal of helping the underserved. I grew up in both areas (south central LA & Inland Empire) so I’ve experienced both environments and am not necessarily motivated by city/weather since both are in SoCal & I love both cities. I am interested in going into primary care and for residency I do want to stay in California. After researching the educational curriculum of both programs extensively, I found that I like both about the same (I lean a bit more towards UCR’s curriculum with UCLA undergoing some drastic changes next year). UCR is offering a full tuition scholarship (all 4 years), and I already live in the I.E. with family (basically food + rent is free), whereas Drew/UCLA is offering to cover about 60% of tuition plus I need loans to cover the rest of the tuition & housing fees (about 120K over the 4 years).
Drew/UCLA
Pros
- Prestige/dream school
- Class of 28 students within the Drew program
- Competitive residency matches all over CA
- Clinical preceptorship 1st year in primary care, and a unique preceptorship 3rd year in specialty of interest
Cons
- 120K debt (plus 20K debt from undergrad)
- Need to compete for global heath opportunities (and overall competition with large class size)
- With changing curriculum, I will be competing for clinical rotation sites as an MS3 with MS2’s
UCR
Pros
- Would basically graduate debt-free
- Small class (~70)
- Seems that every year more & more students match into competitive residencies for primary care throughout California (Stanford, UCLA, UCSF, USC, etc)
- 3-year long clinical preceptorship in primary care
- global health opportunities seems easier to obtain
Cons
- newer school, not as established as other UC’s
- no primary hospital
Summary: I am leaning heavily towards UCR because it seems that it can provide me with the same CA residency opportunities that Drew/UCLA could, and my medical education would basically be free. But I’m afraid of the possible opportunities lost by not choosing Drew/UCLA, given the prestige of the school.
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