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Ok, i need a little help, i really can't decide where to go. I live in CT, and i was accepted at 4 schools so far (Nova, UConn, UMDNJ, and Maryland). Now i've honestly liked them all, but i'm trying to see where i would enjoy the next 4 years of my life the most, and where i'll fit best
Nova:
PROS:
warm
florida
sunny a lot
facilities are fairly nice
faculty are awesome
students seem real nice
take the boards at end of first year
electronic charting (at least i think they said that, not sure about xrays though)
somewhere i can see myself ending up practicing
CONS:
halfway across the country away from my family (although i have my uncle aunt and grandmother in FL, about an hour away)
CHAIRS!!!! i've heard horror stories about not being able to book
UMDNJ:
PROS:
Close to home
great faculty, great students
clinic is gorgeous, and enough chairs
preclinic is older, but still quite fine
reclassify as a NJ resident
CONS:
Newark area can be dangerous at night
Maryland:
PROS:
GORGEOUS facilities
liked the faculty and staff
take boards after 1st year
CONS:
Far from any family at all
NO reclassifying so the cost of tuition is incredible
Baltimore, not the greatest area, but does give a large patient pool
UConn:
PROS:
Cheap
P/F
very nice safe area
med school for two years, (makes the boards a piece of cake lol)
GORGEOUS facilities
students seem to enjoy it there
small class of only 35
CONS:
cold
extremely demanding curriculum (which is probably not as bad as it is made out to be, it does after all make you extremely well prepared for the boards!! so maybe a plus, idk)
TONS of clinic and didactic work (in fact they said they had the highest)
ALL Classes, first (two years )with med students (and i think they're all graded on the same scale with med students too)
my interview was basically an interrogation haha, but i will say i enjoyed them pressuring me, was certainly the most rigorous interview! but i hope that this is not the mentality of all faculty?
Ok, so those are my schools and lists. Now i really can't decide. Nova is great, warm loved it. Uconn is p/f and has lovely facilities, and UMDNJ was awesome and had amazing faculty.
ultimately the decision is mine, but does anyone have any opinions of these schools and any advice?
*Edit - in the title, Touch should be tough lol
Nova:
PROS:
warm
florida
sunny a lot
facilities are fairly nice
faculty are awesome
students seem real nice
take the boards at end of first year
electronic charting (at least i think they said that, not sure about xrays though)
somewhere i can see myself ending up practicing
CONS:
halfway across the country away from my family (although i have my uncle aunt and grandmother in FL, about an hour away)
CHAIRS!!!! i've heard horror stories about not being able to book
UMDNJ:
PROS:
Close to home
great faculty, great students
clinic is gorgeous, and enough chairs
preclinic is older, but still quite fine
reclassify as a NJ resident
CONS:
Newark area can be dangerous at night
Maryland:
PROS:
GORGEOUS facilities
liked the faculty and staff
take boards after 1st year
CONS:
Far from any family at all
NO reclassifying so the cost of tuition is incredible
Baltimore, not the greatest area, but does give a large patient pool
UConn:
PROS:
Cheap
P/F
very nice safe area
med school for two years, (makes the boards a piece of cake lol)
GORGEOUS facilities
students seem to enjoy it there
small class of only 35
CONS:
cold
extremely demanding curriculum (which is probably not as bad as it is made out to be, it does after all make you extremely well prepared for the boards!! so maybe a plus, idk)
TONS of clinic and didactic work (in fact they said they had the highest)
ALL Classes, first (two years )with med students (and i think they're all graded on the same scale with med students too)
my interview was basically an interrogation haha, but i will say i enjoyed them pressuring me, was certainly the most rigorous interview! but i hope that this is not the mentality of all faculty?
Ok, so those are my schools and lists. Now i really can't decide. Nova is great, warm loved it. Uconn is p/f and has lovely facilities, and UMDNJ was awesome and had amazing faculty.
ultimately the decision is mine, but does anyone have any opinions of these schools and any advice?
*Edit - in the title, Touch should be tough lol