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How to decide?

Started by Honeybell
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What are the factors that we should look at to help us decide between schools? I am feeling torn between two. Any advice?
 
that depends on you.what would you like in a medical school? When you interviewed, what kind of feeling did you get? I based my decision on reputation and location. others factors people usually consider are cost, quality of faculty, friendliness of students, curriculum, faciliities, board pass rate, etc. You can do a search on this forum to get more opinion or compare schools. Almost every school have been evaluated by some SDNer.
 
Location - where do you want to spend the next 4 years of your life?

Class Schedule - When are the classes and how long do they last? Do you have time off between blocks, summer time off? Etc..

Staff - do you like them? Are they helpful?

Cost - cost of the school but also the cost of living in the city where the school is located