RFU vs Drexel

[billybob321]

I just got my acceptance to Drexel, so now I have to make a difficult decision between RFU and Drexel. I would love to hear some of y'all inputs.

RFU Pros:

-Supportive students and staff. From my interactions with students and faculty during interview day and my email correspondences, I feel like RFU definitely has a positive vibe and environment.

-North Chicago.

-A pretty decent match rate along with pass fail pre-clinical grades. Although there's honors >90%.

RFU Cons:

-Does not have a teaching hospital (same as drexel).

-Cost (should be same as drexel).

-Far from California and very cold.

Drexel Pros:

-Ranked school (in the 80's).

-Better match rate (I think) than compared to RFU.

-In Philly.

-Integrated community engagement courses.

Drexel Cons:

-I feel like the administration is a big disorganized (doesn't respond to my emails or calls).

-Doesn't have a teaching hospital (same as RFU).

-Flipped teaching (I don't like it).

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[TheDataKing]

If you don’t like a flipped classroom, go to RFU. they’re similar in rank but Drexel is notorious for being disorganized and I really hate how their clerkships are set up and you’re thrown around the state (could be 5 hours away in Pittsburgh, etc).

 

[billybob321]

Thank you for your feedback! I agree with the clerkship perspective, but I would also have a chance to go back to California during my clerkship as well. I also think Drexel has a slightly stronger match list than compared to RFU, please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[veraserah]

For what it's worth, the flipped teaching style allows for a lot more flexibility in your time and schedule. The lectures are recorded just as a real-time lecture is given, so you can simulate actual lectures if it's important to you. The in person class time is just like a lecture but built off of case-style questions you work as a team to solve and there is a high level of professor-student interaction during those sessions (and outside as well for office hours). Personally, I never felt like having traditional lecture time where you're being thrown a fire hose amount of information gives you as much interact-ability as the flipped classroom at Drexel allows.

Also - have you gotten your campus assignment yet? The Reading campus has its own (well, it's for the whole school but local to Reading) teaching hospital you can network in from the start. If you are a Philly student, most students end up at a year long site so you'd move after Step 1 and then stay until graduation or whatever 4th year schedule you work out (which everyone needs to do), so you're not really "thrown around" in the sense that you have to move every rotation. Even the rotators are mostly set up in the greater Philly area so you don't need to move all the time.

 

[billybob321]

I haven't gotten my campus assignment yet, but I'm hoping for the Philly campus. Can anyone comment on the quality of rotation sites between RFU and Drexel? I'm not too versed on which one would be better.

 

[Rooks]

I haven't gotten my campus assignment yet, but I'm hoping for the Philly campus. Can anyone comment on the quality of rotation sites between RFU and Drexel? I'm not too versed on which one would be better.

Which school did you decide on?

 

[dreamingofmed]

As a californian, I would recommend going to Drexel because they can send you back to CA for rotations. You can do aways in socal during your last two years and this will give you a better chance of matching back into California. I'm not too sure about RFU but making connections in CA is super important. So it would be 2 years in Philly and 2 years in Bay Area, 30 min from SF.