Hi! I'm deciding between UCF and U Miami and would love to hear your input.
Miami Pros:
Miami Pros:
- 14-month Phase 1 pre-clinical curriculum (not sure if this is good or bad)
- P/F preclinical *** (w/ rank, see cons)
- Awesome match list!
- Lots of research opportunities especially in my interest areas
- Exams every 2 weeks (I don’t think I would mind this as each exam would be lower stakes I think?)
- Higher in rank (#44)
- Close to the water/ tons of fun things to do outside of medicine (but also costly $$$ in Miami)
- Step 1 and 2 are both taken in 3rd year within a 3 months time frame (students seem to not mind but this scares me)
- Ranked (quartiles) pre-clinicals
- Required 8am-12pm classes every day
- Exams on Monday morning at 8 am every other week - weekends will be stressful
- older facilities
- Total COA would be about $450k after all 4 years
- 8 hr drive from home
- Solid match list for a newer school
- FIRE program guides you through a research project
- 6 weeks for dedicated Step 1 studying / and I think 4 weeks of dedicated step 2 studying
- Total COA would be around $300k after all 4 years
- 4 hr drive from home
- newer facilities
- 2 year graded pre-clinical curriculum - ABCDF (was told that about 70% of the class makes A’s on exams - this graded preclinical curriculum is one of the biggest cons in my opinion)
- Lower in rank (#98)
- Sorted into percentiles for clerkship
- Rotations with HCA and not with Orlando Health or Advent
- M3/M4 rotations are all over the state = moving around a lot
