Results Overview
Overall, how satisfied are you with this program?
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"They accepted a lot of rural students and lower stat applicants, many of which have been making it (although some did repeat). Glad they give students like that a chance. They revamped the study spaces a bit to add more options since class sizes are getting bigger. We have some new faculty that are really making positive changes and working to excite students about Osteopathy. Love the ultrasound certification program. It is so helpful, and the faculty are great. We get board prep materials and a custom study program that is based on our exam date. There are tutors in the upper classes available, and you can become one yourself and get paid."
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"Some great professors, dean is nice"
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"Professors are usually kind, pretty intelligent, and make wonderful lecture materal that appears to be board relevant."
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"3rd and 4th year are under your discretion - but that's a double edged sword"
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"I got accepted with a very low score. They accept anyone, and everyone gets off the waitlist since most people accepted to WCUCOM and somewhere else choose the somewhere else."
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"The faculty, they are extremely helpful and you will get to know them."
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"Faculty, OSCE training, Physical exam training"
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"The class itself is very competitive. Towards the end of the year, people started deleting resources from the class drive. The campus feels unsafe at times. Parking is frustrating. Staff are distant, and it is hard to get issues resolved. Issues all get pushed towards class representatives and SGA, and it feels like as individual students you can't go to a professor yourself. One class kept uploading old lecture recordings instead of teaching live, and that class professor was never on campus in their office if you needed help. The environment just doesn't feel motivating or overall good to be in. Most people leave asap the minute a mandatory lecture is over. The attitude towards NPs is extremely negative, so be warned if you were one or support NP autonomy. The school encourages students to go to the capital and show support for the med associations being against NP autonomy, but many of the students that go to these are not even from MS or want to practice in MS. Idk feels weird. Glad I am getting a degree I dreamed about, but this has been such a rough program to enjoy. Student moral is really low overall. Feels like high school (in all the bad ways). Not to say there aren't a few good people and professors."
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"OPP grading feels super subjective, schedule got signficantly worse this year vs other years."
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"OPP exams have a ridculously small time limit which makes them very rushed and not practical at testing competency."
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"Histology 1st year is dreadful - you'll find out 2nd year that most of OPP (while being ~120 years old) is not supported by most hard science, and only mostly used by people who run OPP clinics (source: https://jaoa.org/article.aspx?articleid=2765401). WCU will also require mandatory attendance only for the classes that aren't board/real-life relevant (OPP and CPC)"
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"EVERYTHING ELSE. Attendance is required so you have barely any time outside of class to study, because of this there's not enough time for self-care, cooking, exercise, STUDYING, sleeping, etc. William Carey doesn't care-y about anything except how to bring the school more money at any chance they can get. They'll fail students based on a ONE question difference, just to make them pay extra tuition for a semester. Carey also does NOT get the same experience and opportunities as other medical schools. Also, they are very unfair and irrational when doing placements for rotations. Someone can have a wife and baby or a significant other or family living in a rotation cite city, but they'll choose to give it to someone with no connections to that city. They don't listen to the students opinions or desires or care about what the students ever have to say."
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"Sometimes there can be some red tape with the admin and the attendance policy."
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"Cost"
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