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I have family in NC but not in the Raleigh area. Durham is a lot more developed than you think and raleigh is right there if you need city stuff to do. I have family and connections near major cities already so if I want to visit the major cities, I go visit my family and friends to get my big city fix for the year.Lmao I'll let em know. Since you're prolly more familiar with Durham than I am, what's your impression of that whole area? For the other part, which elements of HMS are worth the $400k premium over some of my other options, in your opinion?
Thanks! I'd say the only school I've heard mixed things about re: academic culture is Columbia, every other school I've really only heard good things about. Around 100 is probably my ideal class size, which is closest to UChicago, WashU, and Yale, but honestly they're all similar enough that it wasn't a major deciding factor me.
Congrats! These are amazing choices.
I would choose one of the schools with P/F clinicals: HMS, WashU*, Duke
*I heard they have some stratification, but I'm not familiar
I'm sure you're brilliant, but clinical evals are really random and you might not come away with the grades you expect, especially if the shelf exam is a relatively small % of the grade. (e.g. at my school it's only 20-30% depending on the clerkship)
And unfortunately, these grades really matter for residency.
Duke has 2nd year P/F clinicals, 4th year clinicals are Honors/Pass/FailThanks! After looking more into it, I'm seeing mixed info on if Duke's clerkships are full P/F. MSAR says they're Honors/Pass/Fail, but a recent surgical clerkship guide from Duke says they're just P/F.