maybe im biased as well but i heard lots of good things about marian....
+1 But I'm totally biased because I've been accepted to Marian and didn't even apply to CUSOM. However, pros in my opinion about MU-COM:
1. In a big city: Indianapolis is pretty awesome and being in a city should afford you more opportunities. Also, the price of living isn't as steep as a lot of places, especially for being a big city.
2. Established connections with Indiana hospitals and a lot of backing from the community. They seem to really care about the school and the physicians that will be produced from it so I really think whoever goes there will have a lot of support in general.
3. Brand new facilities (although - I would assume it would be the same for Campbell right?). 85 million dollars to put into the building of the school and everything will be brand new and high tech. I can't wait to see it!
4. Knowledgeable faculty. Many of the faculty members were hired from other medical schools, so even though it's a new school, the administration has experience in dealing with medical students (major plus!).
5. Curriculum and dean coming from another DO school. This shows that the curriculum works and there is experience with how it is run. This is a major plus because you don't want to deal with a school that's just starting out fresh (again, I know nothing about Campbell, they could have the same thing going on).
However, I agree with the poster above: would you prefer North Carolina or Indiana? It would be my assumption that wherever you choose would give you better opportunities as far as rotations and residency opportunities in that particular region. Possible cons that have been brought up about MU-COM are the lack of supplying iPads/text or something of that nature (I know this is something ACOM is doing). Also the tuition is about 42,000 (the average of private medical schools I believe) so you can take that however you want to when comparing it to Campbell or other schools. Hope that helps, sorry for the novel
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