I haven't taken the time to do your survey, but the thread made me smile. Let me give you the short version of what I know - just about every allopathic medical school that I know of has been around for a long time. The campus is located in a bad part of town in order to be close to the neighborhoods where uninsured patients who use the medical school live - therefore your car is prone to vandalism if you park near campus - and even sometimes when you're on-campus.
The school outgrew its land area years ago and everything, especially parking, is cramped. As a student, you are at the absolute bottom of the totem pole and you have to park miles from anywhere you actually have to go. In spite of that, you have to pay a small fortune each semester in order to have the privelege of parking in a university-owned cow pasture.
Sound familiar? Everyone is in the same boat. You can look forward to your clinical years - since students are never assigned parking at the hospital the way attendings and residents are, you can often get away with parking in places that you're not supposed to park - like "visitor."
This becomes a fine art once you've done it for a while.
