Psst! No one tell Allie about how the *entire* med school class shares the same cadaver for anatomy!
I get angry and violent if I wait more than 10 minutes usually.
Maryland is actually an amazing school. They are like ranked in the top 5 (i think) for the amount of research money they are bringing in; you are only in lecture for 2 hours; every lecture is videotaped and put online; they have an organ based curriculum; they just hired another black dean of the medical school (says alot to me about how they view diversity);they have brand new lecture halls; instate tuition is bomb for us instaters; the Shock Trauma hospital is one of a kind in the nation; and I could really go on for awhile.
They're a really great school (one of the oldest state schools in the U.S., too) but definitely not as non-traditional friendly as other schools. This was my experience when I applied as a Maryland resident and the experience of several other non-traditional friends who otherwise did well in the application cycle at other schools. Case in point: I asked the Dean of Admissions about their policy on admitting students that did their undergrad. outside of the U.S. and the Dean told me they have never had such an applicant. Hard to believe. I have a Ph.D. from a top-20 school in the U.S. and the Dean actually asked me why that school didn't have a problem admitting me with a foreign undergraduate degree! Terrible. I knew at that moment that I should be worried when a school that should know this basic information seems so dissociated from what goes on outside of their niche.
