You are absolutely right. It is really expensive, and perhaps unfair to oos students, but the school had two things that drive me to finance an education there:
1. The campus is amazing. The entire campus is devoted to DO students and is perfectly layed out in a small quiet town (Though it has a walmart, which is a plus to a poor med student).
2. The student body seems really happy. WVSOM is really the only place that i really felt that students are treated as the main focus of the school. Other schools have a DO program as add on, or addition. Others try, but seem to grounded in their past to change. The thing that sold me on WVSOM is that in the lecture halls people customized and made their lecture space their own. That character and comfortablitiy is something I certainly didnt get at my undergraduate institution, nor have I seen at any other medical school.
Thus, I am stuck with loans and what ever scholorships I can find. Also with the exteremly low cost of living, the over cost per year is much closer to other schools than some would think. For example, Lecom bradenton was like 57,000 per year expected cost (27,000 oos tuition) and WVSOM 77,000 (with 49,000 oos tuition). Obviously those numbers can be reduced by careful planning, but it shows that the cost of living in say Florida is a lot higher than wv.
. I'm pre-med so I have time to disperse a lot of advice and so do you it looks like
