Simmons College DPT

[dptephopeful]

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Hey guys, I just received my acceptance letter to Simmons yesterday! I'm from the Midwest area and don't know too much about the area or program and have been accepted to other programs already. I'm not sure if I can make it to their open house on February 24th. If anyone has any information on the program or area and wants to share I'd be super grateful! I want to know more about the program before submitting my deposit as to be fair to people on the waitlist!

 

[laurog1]

I'm from the Boston area and was also accepted! Simmons is in the Fenway/Longwood Medical area. Fenway is exactly what it sounds like - near the baseball park, and there are a bunch of different schools that make up "the colleges of the Fenway" - all relatively small private schools (Emmanuel, Wentworth, MassArt, MCPHS, Wheelock). Longwood is known for having some big hospitals, like Boston Children's and Brigham & Women's. Very accessible by subway. So overall, I'd say a lot of young people and medical professionals. From what I remember from the info session, Simmons starts their program in the summer, and uses Harvard Medical School for anatomy lab. For undergrad, Simmons is an all-women college, and since they have a 3+3 program for PT, you can expect that most of the DPT cohort will be women. A PT at the clinic I work at graduated from there and was one of only 2 men in his graduating class. A professor I talked to at my info session said they try to admit a mix of men and women for the DPT since you obviously deal with a variety of patients, but they don't necessarily give male applicants preference. The high female numbers are bound to happen since the undergrad PT majors we join are already all women. So, that can make it very different from many other programs! Overall I'd say that Simmons is a well established program in the Boston area, and probably the smallest, in comparison to BU, Northeastern, and MGH. I am personally very seriously considering attending, since I could commute into the city from home, and Simmons has affiliation sites in most of the Boston hospitals and surrounding areas. Growing up around here I'm biased, but I love Boston and think it has a lot to offer. I've briefly been to the midwest once (Minneapolis area) and to me Boston is much different, but I'd highly recommend giving the area and school a visit at some point if you can! Good luck and congrats!

 

[dptephopeful]

I'm from the Boston area and was also accepted! Simmons is in the Fenway/Longwood Medical area. Fenway is exactly what it sounds like - near the baseball park, and there are a bunch of different schools that make up "the colleges of the Fenway" - all relatively small private schools (Emmanuel, Wentworth, MassArt, MCPHS, Wheelock). Longwood is known for having some big hospitals, like Boston Children's and Brigham & Women's. Very accessible by subway. So overall, I'd say a lot of young people and medical professionals. From what I remember from the info session, Simmons starts their program in the summer, and uses Harvard Medical School for anatomy lab. For undergrad, Simmons is an all-women college, and since they have a 3+3 program for PT, you can expect that most of the DPT cohort will be women. A PT at the clinic I work at graduated from there and was one of only 2 men in his graduating class. A professor I talked to at my info session said they try to admit a mix of men and women for the DPT since you obviously deal with a variety of patients, but they don't necessarily give male applicants preference. The high female numbers are bound to happen since the undergrad PT majors we join are already all women. So, that can make it very different from many other programs! Overall I'd say that Simmons is a well established program in the Boston area, and probably the smallest, in comparison to BU, Northeastern, and MGH. I am personally very seriously considering attending, since I could commute into the city from home, and Simmons has affiliation sites in most of the Boston hospitals and surrounding areas. Growing up around here I'm biased, but I love Boston and think it has a lot to offer. I've briefly been to the midwest once (Minneapolis area) and to me Boston is much different, but I'd highly recommend giving the area and school a visit at some point if you can! Good luck and congrats!

Wow, thank you for all your help and information! I will be flying out and attending their open house on February 24th and your information made me more excited for this opportunity. If you have any additional information on living expenses in the area or on the clinics around the Fenway area that would be helpful information as well! I wish you all the best in your school decisions!

 

[laurog1]

I can't find right now where I thought I had seen some of their clinical sites listed, but being from the area and having family that works in healthcare, I know they were some big name places, which is really awesome. Boston is pretty expensive - not as bad as NYC, but still no bargain. I would say $800 a month for rent is considered to be on the low end, even in areas with high student populations. I didn't go to school in the city, so someone with more first-hand knowledge can absolutely correct me on that, but that's my estimate based on what some of my friends have been paying recently. You can find cheaper, but its difficult and depends on how close/far you would want to be from campus. So that's a big reason why I'm considering trying to commute, even though that isn't easy either with traffic and how unreliable the subway system can be, especially in the winter. But Simmons also says they try to save spots in campus housing for first year grad students, preference given to those from out of state!