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Anyone willing to give me some thoughts?
Some things to consider:
• I'd like to eventually relocate back to the west coast. Anyone know generally which might be better at getting me there?
• Research interests are still a bit open for me. Most of my background is immunology, but I'd honestly like to do at least one rotation in a different field, e.g. neurological cases are so fascinating!
• Even though I am interested in research, I want solid clinical skills and opportunities to work with underserved. This is important to me.
Otherwise, I'm pretty evenly split on them. They each have their pros and cons. Both are great basketball schools
UF:
• UF seems to have more stable research funding if I look on the NIH Reporter (# of R01s). There was a great virologist I interviewed with who was super chill. I would be interested in doing a rotation with him. I know though that I shouldn't base my decision on one single PI I'd want to work with.
• Everyone was incredibly nice, welcoming, and the admissions committee really seemed to admit holistic students.
• Gainesville was cute, a nice college town. The cost of living is much lower than CT, and who doesn't love sunshine, despite humidity?
• I don't really mind too much that it's on the undergraduate campus. In fact, I actually like that all of the health professional schools are together, and I would be interested in doing undergraduate mentorship and/or teaching.
UConn
• UConn is opening their Jackson Lab this year and have already recruited some top-notch people; it would be really exciting to work with some of these new faculty. The building itself looks great and I imagine it'll bring a lot of interesting research in. UConn also has a lot of solid bone researchers
• Farmington/Hartford is in the NE, so close enough to major cities and I don't feel like I'd be isolated as much as I'd be in FL. The closest city to Gainesville I think is Jacksonville, which is at least one hour away.
• As much as I love the sunshine, I also love seasons (how much I love the winter, eh...)
• The class size is small which I think would be nice (<100).
Leadership/administration for both seem to be in a bit of transition (current directors <5 years). UF only recently started accepting OOS MD/PhD students, which is a bit weird to me.
Some things to consider:
• I'd like to eventually relocate back to the west coast. Anyone know generally which might be better at getting me there?
• Research interests are still a bit open for me. Most of my background is immunology, but I'd honestly like to do at least one rotation in a different field, e.g. neurological cases are so fascinating!
• Even though I am interested in research, I want solid clinical skills and opportunities to work with underserved. This is important to me.
Otherwise, I'm pretty evenly split on them. They each have their pros and cons. Both are great basketball schools
UF:
• UF seems to have more stable research funding if I look on the NIH Reporter (# of R01s). There was a great virologist I interviewed with who was super chill. I would be interested in doing a rotation with him. I know though that I shouldn't base my decision on one single PI I'd want to work with.
• Everyone was incredibly nice, welcoming, and the admissions committee really seemed to admit holistic students.
• Gainesville was cute, a nice college town. The cost of living is much lower than CT, and who doesn't love sunshine, despite humidity?
• I don't really mind too much that it's on the undergraduate campus. In fact, I actually like that all of the health professional schools are together, and I would be interested in doing undergraduate mentorship and/or teaching.
UConn
• UConn is opening their Jackson Lab this year and have already recruited some top-notch people; it would be really exciting to work with some of these new faculty. The building itself looks great and I imagine it'll bring a lot of interesting research in. UConn also has a lot of solid bone researchers
• Farmington/Hartford is in the NE, so close enough to major cities and I don't feel like I'd be isolated as much as I'd be in FL. The closest city to Gainesville I think is Jacksonville, which is at least one hour away.
• As much as I love the sunshine, I also love seasons (how much I love the winter, eh...)
• The class size is small which I think would be nice (<100).
Leadership/administration for both seem to be in a bit of transition (current directors <5 years). UF only recently started accepting OOS MD/PhD students, which is a bit weird to me.