GlycoproteinGirl
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Hi everyone! I’m incredibly lucky to be in the position of picking between these amazing schools, and I would appreciate any advice you all have! To give a little background information about me, I’m coming straight out of undergrad, I’m really interested in public health, and it’s important to me that I go somewhere with happy students and a social atmosphere (post-COVID). I haven’t received aid packages from any of these schools yet, so cost is still a big unknown. Here are all of the pros and cons I could think of:
Hopkins
Pros
Pros
Pros
Thanks in advance for your input!!
Hopkins
Pros
- Can’t beat the name recognition
- Stellar clinical training and facilities
- Bloomberg is ranked #1 for public health, great place to get an MPH and do public health research
- Love the structure of the preclinical curriculum (intercession weeks, focus on health disparities)
- Match list is ridiculously good
- Don’t know anyone in the area
- Baltimore seems cool, but it’s a smaller city, and I prefer large cities
- Can’t really tell how close/social the student body is
Pros
- New york city, obviously (though I guess having so many things to do could be distracting)
- Mailman is also an incredible public health school
- Lots of friends/family in the city
- Washington heights seems awesome
- P&S club seems like a great way to make friends/build community
- Not a fan of the first year dorms, but also don’t want to miss out socially by living off campus
- Have heard that columbia students tend to be more stressed than the average med student, not sure if this is true
- Might be a while before new york really rebounds post-COVID
Pros
- Love the learning group-based curriculum style
- Students seem really fun and really happy
- Beautiful facilities
- Easy access to classes at business school, law school, etc, which is super cool
- Apparently they have lots of funding for students who want to do MPHs
- Biggest con is that they don’t have a public health school. They have public health research going on and they offer MPHs, but I feel like the lack of an actual public health school might make it harder to make connections and do research in that field.
- Don’t know a ton of people in Philly
Thanks in advance for your input!!