Hi all,
I am sitting with acceptances from these schools and I could really use everyone’s insight on these schools!
VCOM-Auburn
PCOM-GA (Suwanee)
LMU-DCOM
I am sitting with acceptances from these schools and I could really use everyone’s insight on these schools!
VCOM-Auburn
- Pros
- Closer to home
- Friendly faculty and staff
- Small class size (150 students)
- Affiliated with Auburn University (access to amenities and research opportunities)
- Can opt in for a 4 week rotation in the Dominican, Honduras, or El Salvador
- Beautiful campus
- Cons
- Rotation sites are rural and spread out across various
- Newly established (2014)
PCOM-GA (Suwanee)
- Pros
- Near ATL (urban area) - good night life
- More established
- Cons
- I’ve heard they are not financially well off, as in they can not offer as many resources to students compared to other schools (tech, medical instruments, gloves, shoe coverings)
- Campus classrooms from the virtual tour look horrible
LMU-DCOM
- Pros
- Professors are willing to work with students, even though they acknowledge the fact that they will spend 60% of their time present at a single campus
- Lots of club opportunities
- Ample housing available
- Cons
- 2 campus selections - Knoxville and Harrogate
- Harrogate is located in the middle of no-where, and has a larger class size
- No health insurance is offered to students as of now (they said they are working on it)
- I dislike the synchrony that is implemented between the two campuses during lectures (1 professor will present at one campus, while the lecture is broadcasted live to the other campus)
- Rotation sites are extremely rural across the Appalachian trail.
- 2 campus selections - Knoxville and Harrogate
