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I realized in January that my application status page doesn't say complete. I called them and they said it was a system error and fixed it, but now my application is just now entering the consideration pool even though I completed it over 4 months ago!
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Utah is a great school. P/F. Nice hospital and medical school. Solid program with a good reputation. Good amount of research. Mountains for skiing! There are like 8 spots for OOS students so I am not super hopeful but I would enjoy this place. If I could get in-state tuition school would be very affordable and cost of living is low. This was the only place that didn't seem to spend a lot of time trying to sell themselves, they kind of had a take it or leave it attitude which was a stark contrast from all of my other interviews.
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Southwestern is very affordable, very prestigious, lots of research, and dallas is warm in the winter. They are building a brand new parkland hospital which looks like it will be awesome. However I kind of got the feeling the school expects your life to be studies. First semester is P/F after that it is graded. I felt like there would be a competitive feel. They do have these carrels which are basically like your own study area with a group of other students. The carrel groups compete in a bunch of fun games and stuff throughout the year which seemed cool.
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University of Rochester is awesome. They have a ton of research going on and they really support their students. ART programs allows a year off for funded research with stipend. P/F. Very innovate with their currculum. They put a lot of focus on treating the whole individual, not just the biology, which I really like. Early clinical exposure.
Between lecture, PBL, and clerkships you dont get done until around 4-5 every day, which I felt like was a lot of structure, but students said it was fine and they felt like they were all beneficial activities.
Expensive school but cost of living is very cheap. Rochester snows a lot but is gorgeous in the summer.
Waitlisted and bummed about it, I thought my interviews went really well.
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I am really bummed to be put on the waitlist. I loved Pitt! I would have been ecstatic. I am on the first tier, whatever that means, so hopefully things will work out in the end!
Pitt is the whole package: tons of research, like 20 hospitals, and a great reputation for residency matching. School is expensive though and virtually all of the financial aid is need-based.
Got a 5K merit scholarship. School is still really expensive however I think it is my best choice and I will most likely will be matriculating!
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I actually really liked this school. It is brand new and everything is beautiful. P/F. People were really friendly. El Paso isn't that bad of a place. Only downside is that it is a fairly new school and they don't residency programs in all of the specialties I am interested in.
They gave me a 1000 scholarship which qualifies me for in-state tuition (~15,000/yr)!
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Solid school. They didnt take us through the hospital on the tour which I thought was odd and made me feel like they are covering something up. Facilities are really nice and recently updated. Cincinatti city is ehhh. But still a solid program. You can get in-state tuition after 1st year which is a plus.
Only offered loans and I wouldn't choose it over Pittsburgh without a significant financial incentive to do so.
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The school was great. I would have preferred a pass/fail but it was nice and people were friendly. Hospital was really nice as well. Lubbock is pretty crappy though IMO.
They gave me a 1000 scholarship which qualifies me for in-state tuition (~15,000/yr)!
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I got put on the waitlist a month after my interview and then pulled it off one month later. School was absolutely beautiful, by far the most impressive faciltiies I have seen. Anatomy lab was on the top floor with a ton of windows. Lots of technology, students get ipads. However it would be really expensive as OOS!
The school is new so there are some questions about how the school would be perceived in the match. The school is really on top of things though and I feel like they want to be a premier school in the country. As such, I really felt like the administration would support you in anything ambitious that would make the school look good (competitive specialties, research e.t.c)
Oh and Orlando is awesome! Tons to do and it is like 75 all winter. Supposedly it gets ridiculously humid in the summer though.
