Exactly two weeks after the first day of class, so it's like the third Monday of your semester. You're on your own for everything up until then including rent, books, et cetera. Luckily, you only need the bare minimum book-wise for the first thirteen weeks--just the Gray's textbook, an atlas (Netter's has great drawings, Rohen's great cadaver photos), and a study guide for embryo that's like $7 from the bookstore.
Macs are fine, and I would say prolly over a quarter of my class has them (including me.) The IT people just won't be able to help you if something happens to it, but then again, it's a Mac and that rarely happens anyways 🙂 If you want a Mac, buy it.
LECOM doesn't cancel anything for snow. I vaguely remember them telling us they've closed the school for snow twice since it opened, and both days were for apocalyptic blizzard-like snowstorms.
I definitely recommend buying snow tires. Don't bother with studded ones, we don't get any ice hardly, just a lot of powder and slush. For PCSP, we start our rotations a year from Monday. We actually have three clinical rotations before we take our boards. We have classes all this summer though to get us ahead of the rest of the year. Then they just throw out like ten elective rotations and condense a few of our core rotations (like surgery becomes four weeks for us) to drop that fourth year. When we apply for residencies, yes, we'll have rotated less than traditional students, but all of our rotations will have been focused on primary care. I'll prolly be staying in this area for rotations just so I don't have to move again.
The disclaimer is just there to cover the IT department in case they can't fix a problem with a Mac, although they're all really nice and I know a lot of them are able to help with Mac problems, even though the handbook says they're not. If your Mac physically dies, you'll still have to go through Apple for repairs, but Erie Computer on Peach Street is an authorized service center and does excellent, quick work (my hard drive died in January, and they had it replaced in two days.)
I've heard that the board review software they used at one point in time ran on Windows machines only, but as mentioned, you can use BootCamp to dual-boot OS X with Windows or use something like Parallels Desktop to run a virtual Windows installation (the latter is my personal preference.) Not sure if that software is still that way or not, as board review stuff from the school seems to change every year. The only other software I know of is the anatomy virtual dissection package for the PBL students, but they have a Java version that runs on almost any operating system.
Laurel Springs is right across from the school, and Laurel Ridge is right next to the school across Ellsworth. Pastore is the developer of both of those complexes, so you'll want to call their office and get on a waitlist ASAP. The list is usually really long, but it should move solidly in May when the OMS-II's head out of town after boards. My roommate just got a single in Laurel Springs for next year.
Does anyone know when financial aid letters will be done?
I have had my FAFSA filled out since early February. A bunch of SDN posts said the FAFSA was late if submitted after Jan 2nd.
Does anyone know when financial aid letters will be done?
I have had my FAFSA filled out since early February. A bunch of SDN posts said the FAFSA was late if submitted after Jan 2nd.
