Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine

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I showed up a little before 8am, and the other candidates were sitting with Dr Buck, just chatting. The student giving the tour arrived, and we commenced the tour. This was opposite from my other interviews; they were done with the tour at the end. Yes, it's only one building, and yes, that's a downside. They say they're expanding, but there's nothing coming in the near future. Dr Buck came on the tour with us, which he said was the first time he had done so. The anatomy lab uses prosected cadavers, so there's no hands-on gross anatomy work unless you prep cadavers the next summer for incoming classes. So basically, you only look at anatomy--not impressive. They use the cadavers for 2 years too, so they're pretty ratty by the end. After the tour, Dr Wise sat us down in their conference room, and from 8:45am until noon, you stay there. Dr Wise is pretty blunt, which is good. He tells it like it is with LECOM, good or bad. I appreciate that in a guy that you met 10 minutes ago. I was the first called for interviews, and the summarization of the article was not bad (almost a formality at the end of the interview). The interviews were stiff at first, perhaps still waking up as I was, but loosened up as the interview progressed. By the end we were joking around. They gave me AMPLE time to ask questions at the end, which again, I appreciated. After that, back to Dr Wise. I missed a good chunk of what he presented, so that was a downer. Financial Aid was next, and the woman from their office was very thorough and helpful. Next, lunch in the cafeteria with two students. The Admissions Director sat in on this, too, which was odd. You could tell the students were on edge with her present. I don't feel like they were able to talk to us as they should with her across the table. She was nice, but still... Both students were on the Ind. Learning Track, switched from Lecture. Yes, dress code sucks, but they said they got used to it. The PBL students are apparently very loyal to the program as well. Lunch was over by 12:20, and we were free to go. I spent the rest of the afternoon driving around town until my flight out. The driving tour in the packet they give is quite good. The school wasn't bad, I just wasn't sparked in my interest to come here. It didn't "jump off the page" at me. The town itself was a pleasant surprise, though.

Tell me something about yourself, other than what's in your appplication materials.

Nothing too interesting, just questions straight off of this website.

Read SDN, read over my application materials, kept up to date on current events, reviewed the school website.

Again, nothing surprised me, the questions were forthright and pretty standard--they even warned me they'd be reading straight off the prompt sheet.

The area is gorgeous. The weather was perfect, in the 50s, clear and sunny. You MUST take the drive around the peninsula. It's about 15 miles long, you can't get lost, and the trees are in full autumn bloom. It's incredible.

No one was that impressive, as far as wanting to motivate me to come to the school. It was pretty much like, "school will be hard, Erie has its charming points, and you'll be a doctor in the end." I just didn't feel I learned anything about the school I hadn't seen on the website or with SDN.

Make sure you have good directions around town--some of the roads twist and turn and before you know it, you're turned around.

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Enthusiastic

Out of state

7+ hours

Airplane

$401-$500

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Travel Lodge

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