Harvard VS. NY State Schools (IS for both)

[CS2117]

Harvard vs. Stony Brook (IS)

Harvard:

Pros:
- Pass Fail curriculum
- High Specialization Rate
- Boston location
- Small class size

Cons:
- Expensive (130,000+ more than the other two)
- Research aspect when I didn’t do research in undergrad
- Less clinical experience than the other schools

Stony Brook:

Pros:
- much more reasonable price
- Small class size
- still relatively competitive for specialization rates
- better clinical experiences

Cons:
- not pass/fail curriculum
- likely harder to specialize from Stony than Harvard
- not as much to do as in Boston

Thank you all so much for any help with this. I really am grateful to have received these acceptances but just want to gather all the right information before making such a big life decision. Thanks!

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[macsak]

Harvard vs. Stony Brook (IS)

Harvard:

Pros:
- Pass Fail curriculum
- High Specialization Rate
- Boston location
- Small class size

Cons:
- Expensive (130,000+ more than the other two)
- Research aspect when I didn’t do research in undergrad
- Less clinical experience than the other schools

Stony Brook:

Pros:
- much more reasonable price
- Small class size
- still relatively competitive for specialization rates
- better clinical experiences

Cons:
- not pass/fail curriculum
- likely harder to specialize from Stony than Harvard
- not as much to do as in Boston

Thank you all so much for any help with this. I really am grateful to have received these acceptances but just want to gather all the right information before making such a big life decision. Thanks!

you left out that hahvaad is "prestigious"...

 

[macsak]

Harvard vs. Stony Brook (IS)

Harvard:

Pros:
- Pass Fail curriculum
- High Specialization Rate
- Boston location
- Small class size

Cons:
- Expensive (130,000+ more than the other two)
- Research aspect when I didn’t do research in undergrad
- Less clinical experience than the other schools

Stony Brook:

Pros:
- much more reasonable price
- Small class size
- still relatively competitive for specialization rates
- better clinical experiences

Cons:
- not pass/fail curriculum
- likely harder to specialize from Stony than Harvard
- not as much to do as in Boston

Thank you all so much for any help with this. I really am grateful to have received these acceptances but just want to gather all the right information before making such a big life decision. Thanks!

cheaper

 

[Ivy.ch]

You’d be an idiot to give up Stony Brook amigo

 

[Mr.Smile12]

It sounds like you should only go to Harvard if you want to be an academic player, given how you describe their focus to be much less on clinical experience and much more on research.

And that sticker price...

Better to be a faculty or adjunct paid by Harvard than to spend 130K more. Granted it sounds like you will be under lots of pressure to specialize at Harvard.

 

[LFA20]

Stony

 

[Allsmiles!]

130+…I’m afraid to ask what the + means…with over 50 billion dollars of endowment money you would think Harvard could give some damn scholarship money to all incoming dental students…Stony Brook!

 

[LeagueofLigTies]

I find it interesting that you think you’d have a better time specializing from Harvard than Stony, so far in Phase 1 all but one student matched into their chosen specialties at stony. Stony has great specialization rates.

 

[MidwestOwl]

130+…I’m afraid to ask what the + means…with over 50 billion dollars of endowment money you would think Harvard could give some damn scholarship money to all incoming dental students…Stony Brook!

50 billion is the endowment of the big university my friend. Harvard dental is the smallest and possibly the least influential school of the bunch...harvard dental is considered a department of the medical school more or less.