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Hi everyone! I have offers of admission from UCSF and Columbia, but I do not know where to start in terms of deciding. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Hi everyone! I have offers of admission from UCSF and Columbia, but I do not know where to start in terms of deciding. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Hi everyone! I have offers of admission from UCSF and Columbia, but I do not know where to start in terms of deciding. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
My UCSF interview was in October, notification was via snail mail
you get CA residency after 1yr, so it's only an extra $12K compared to current CA residents.
hah, i thought i was going to have the same problem as you. i was accepted into UCSF and all but told by my interviewer that i got into Columbia. but i still haven't heard from the latter.. i'd follow up but it'd kind of look bad to do so and still turn them down.
i'm excited about UCSF! i think it'll be a better fit for my personality type, my interviewer at Columbia kept stressing how much their students their students have to go through, that it was unfair on the school's part. i know at UCSF it'll still be lots of work, but he made it sound like they were getting killed at Columbia.
You really have to talk to some current Columbia students that find you likable to find out the real deal. Sometimes when we see people that we dont feel are suitable for the incoming Columbia CDM class, we make things sound more difficult than they really are to make them choose somewhere else. Same thing goes with the faculty.
If you choose UCSF over Columbia you need to get your head examined!! That whole UCSF campus and the town are boring as hell.
What the hell?!?! You can't tell people to NOT go to your school if they want to... How do you know the "Columbia" type after a semester of going there?You really have to talk to some current Columbia students that find you likable to find out the real deal. Sometimes when we see people that we dont feel are suitable for the incoming Columbia CDM class, we make things sound more difficult than they really are to make them choose somewhere else. Same thing goes with the faculty.
If you choose UCSF over Columbia you need to get your head examined!! That whole UCSF campus and the town are boring as hell.
Columbia wasn't as incredibly hard (or over 9000) to get into as I first thought. I would think a top public school would be harder to get into statistically because of the state quotas. Columbia is a great school (it was my #1(b) choice), just stating the pros and cons of the school.Columbia is a great school!!! and getting to UCSF is statistically less stressful than going to Columbia...
If you choose UCSF over Columbia you need to get your head examined!! That whole UCSF campus and the town are boring as hell.
(i went out with a friend and one of the bums tried to hit us with his crutch). i know harlem is not the best place but at least places in nyc where i would go out at night would be safe which was not the case with sf.
Psh, if you haven't been bum rushed then you haven't lived!
My favorites are vagrants with knives. And by favorites, I mean they actually scare the hell out of me the most.
OP: A few things I like about UCSF: P/F system, balanced between research and clinic, cheap, summer after first year. Most of our science profs also teach med school. So, that's also a plus for us. As for Part I, I think we were number 4 last year.
Columbia is near spanish harlem and about a 40-60 minute ride on the subway to times square... .
Didn't you have to choose Columbia because you couldn't get off UCSF's alternate list?
OP: A few things I like about UCSF: P/F system, balanced between research and clinic, cheap, summer after first year. Most of our science profs also teach med school. So, that's also a plus for us. As for Part I, I think we were number 4 last year.
I'm sure Columbia is a great school, but I don't know much about it. So I don't have any comments. Good luck!
Not really, you can come down to 93rd st then take express lines like #2 or #3. it will take 20~30 mins.
Are you crazy?
COLUMBIA
10 years from now, you're going to want to say you went to COLUMBIA, not ucsf. Why? NAME BRAND. Your patients will know Columbia, but guaranteed a significant percentage will not know about ucsf.
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Are you crazy?
COLUMBIA
10 years from now, you're going to want to say you went to COLUMBIA, not ucsf. Why? NAME BRAND. Your patients will know Columbia, but guaranteed a significant percentage will not know about ucsf.
COLUMBIACOLUMBIACOLUMBIACOLUMBIACOLUMBIA
You're a fool. Some people are able to turn down big name schools. More than that, however, nobody cares where you go to school. If you choose an "Ivy," it serves no purpose other than to stroke your ego.
Wow, you must think everyone who turns down an Ivy is on crack or something. And its a good thing to be able to consider turning down an Ivy. I figured you decided on Columbia after seeing the amount of students in a postgraduate program... "over 90%" according to my acceptance letter.Hey its your own fault you didnt pick harvard! You're crazy!!! I woulda went there...
Hey its your own fault you didnt pick harvard! You're crazy!!! I woulda went there...
COLUMBIA!! Are you crazy!!! When I got accepted there, I cancelled my UCSF interview, cause there's no comparison!!!! COLUMBIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dont be stupid!
You're a fool. Some people are able to turn down big name schools. More than that, however, nobody cares where you go to school. If you choose an "Ivy," it serves no purpose other than to stroke your ego.