blueybingo22
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Grew up in Tampa, went to school in upstate NY, lived in NYC for gap year, and have come to really love being in a big city. Academically I'm interested in pediatrics, allergy/immunology, and am considering exploring combined peds/genetics programs. The ultimate goal is to live in NYC or the Northeast.
UVA - pros
BU - pros
UVA - pros
- Condensed, lecture-style pre-clinical with ample time to take electives and prep residency applications in M4
- the people I met during second look - other prospectives, current students, faculty - were so incredibly warm and amazing. People seem really happy and I feel like I would be too.
- made a connection with an M4 who matched into peds/genetics and I know the mentorship is strong for students interested in genetics and peds in general
- Charlottesville could potentially feel isolating to me, with less to do than a bigger city
- UVA name may not carry as much weight for trying to match into the northeast
- will need to invest in a car
- no pre-existing support network in the VA area
- less patient diversity and potentially less exposure in general
BU - pros
- housing for first years guaranteed, won't need to apartment hunt
- more to do in Boston
- potentially better connections/research opps/ins with BCH/boston hospitals/the northeast in general
- closer to NYC for visiting friends/fam
- slightly less expensive (10k less/year in loans for me personally)
- health equity curriculum
- flipped classroom (self-guided learning) for pre-clerkship
- longer (nearly 2 year) pre-clerkship phase
- used to brutal upstate NY winters and I know what I'm getting myself into and would be fine, but something to consider
- did not pick up on the same interpersonal warmth that I got from UVA, so I'm a bit wary
- Boston, while exciting, felt like a place overall less welcoming than NYC where it could be hard just to make friends in general for me