Usually students live in or around harrogate. I would not particularly recommend trying to commute from Knoxville. It is too far of a drive and rather difficult. You could media site, but first semester will be very difficult as you have labs 3-4/5 days usually. Those are mandatory. In addition, the commute time is about an hour, maybe more depending where in Knoxville you live, that is 2 hours of precious study time. My wife and I lived in La Follette when we first move out here, it become too much of a hassle and we moved to Harrogate a few months later. However, some students preferred the commute and have made it work, but not without its stresses. The life style in Harrogate is small town; area population of ~17,000. If you are ok with small town then this is the place for you. It is beautiful and quaint. But if you are looking for somewhere nearby to get wild on the weekend, it is not Las Vegas or Emerald city. Many students will take trips to Knoxville the night after a test and this works for them. I am not a partyier, nor do I drink, so what I have shared is the deepest I can go on the topic. As for quality, it is again small town. The Walmart is... Walmart. But truthfully the area is only for 2 years and will give you fun stories for when you have students shadowing you someday. Can you expound on what LBQT means? The only thing that comes to mind when I see those letters is LGBT, is this the same thing? If so then there is a gender equality club here. There are many individuals of many different faiths, beliefs, sexual orientations and we all mesh well and have become good friends. This truly is an excellent school. Don't let the location or recent development of the school fool you.
http://www.lmunet.edu/dcom/pdfs/2014-residency-placement-by-location.pdf
Here is a link a link to the residency placement of the class of 2014. 14 members placed in Emergency medicine. This is actually pretty good. Dr Seaman is an ER physician and very dedicated to making sure students get to where they are wanting to be. If you have an interest in ER medicine then coming here would in no way hinder your desires. Some of the core rotation sites are in or around areas that have ER residencies. For example Chillicothe OH has an EM Residency program and is a core rotation site. The ER club is highly active around here and tries to find opportunities for its members to expand their CV's. In addition, if you want ER, a large factor in fulfilling this desire is based on you and how proactive you are on setting up your elective and audition rotations.
As for DCOM rotation sites, here is a link to them. During years 3 and 4 you will do your core rotations at one of these sites. Cores must be done there, but electives and auditions can be done anywhere your heart desires.
http://www.lmunet.edu/dcom/academics/sites.shtml
As for the MCAT, I took mine in August and had an interview for November by October. This is in no way late. If you have an interview before December, you have absolutely nothing to worry about in terms of seats being filled already. Heck, even up till March they still had a 1/4 of the class to fill left. Plenty of space.
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