ShrimpinMD
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Pitt (borrowed a bit from another poster, sorry/thank you)
Pros:
Dartmouth
Pros:
Summary: I'm a nontraditional student looking to live alone in a townhome in a quiet, more suburban neighborhood. Not interested so much in night-life. These two schools are both fantastic in their own right, and I feel fortunate to have a choice between them. Cost is about equivalent, with Pittsburgh having cheaper townhomes for rent, but they're a bit farther from campus than Lebanon is to Dartmouth. I'm not very interested in gunning for a specialty like surgery, though I haven't ruled out the possibility. I want to give myself the most options.
I'm hoping to hear from current students as to how supportive each program is of their students. I'd like to know if extra support is available in the unlikely event that I need it.
Pros:
- Great research opportunities
- Nice new facilities
- Better hospital systems
- Undergrad campus and community is nice to have (comes with better facilities)
- Flex weeks = break weeks for self-driven learning or vacation
- Enjoy new structure of small group learning but also seems like it could be a lot
- closer to friends/family, 4h from home, 2h from friends in Cleveland
- Prestige/Match
- I was offered an opportunity to occasionally work at the hospital in my allied health role, which I'd enjoy
- I don’t fully hate Pittsburgh, but I'm older and would prefer a more rural/quiet area
- Mandatory In-person team-based learning every single day (this is a major con to me, as someone who has gotten used to the flexibility of asynchronous classrooms)
- larger class size
- PA is more conservative than I'm used to. It would be an opportunity to have my vote mean something, though.
- nicer townhomes are 20 min+ commute to campus
Dartmouth
Pros:
- Also great research opportunities
- Location - Hanover is gorgeous, and I prefer quieter living and enjoy the outdoors
- smaller class size
- wilderness medicine elective seems really cool and right up my alley
- Ivy League? I am not sure how much this even matters compared to the prestige of UPitt, it is probably about equivalent in match rates.
- (I am fairly progressive) so living in a historically blue state/area would help me feel more at home
- nicer neighborhoods closer to campus mean a shorter commute from a place I'd be happy living.
- Farther from friends/family, 8h from home, 9h from friends in Cleveland (this is a fairly big con, as my mother is aging and I'd like to be able to come home at short notice, though Lebanon has a small regional airport.)
- Rentable homes near the school are slightly more expensive.
Summary: I'm a nontraditional student looking to live alone in a townhome in a quiet, more suburban neighborhood. Not interested so much in night-life. These two schools are both fantastic in their own right, and I feel fortunate to have a choice between them. Cost is about equivalent, with Pittsburgh having cheaper townhomes for rent, but they're a bit farther from campus than Lebanon is to Dartmouth. I'm not very interested in gunning for a specialty like surgery, though I haven't ruled out the possibility. I want to give myself the most options.
I'm hoping to hear from current students as to how supportive each program is of their students. I'd like to know if extra support is available in the unlikely event that I need it.
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