Hey DON’TUndrEstimat,
Usually the class personalities are pretty similar, there is quite a bit of immaturity: #1 is usually: who’s extended and who hasn’t - this usually stops after Year 2 as u usually don’t extend 1 yr. after that (as if that means anything to those outside of UMKC - just to make it clear to some of the immature here, I didn’t extend in the program), #2: “I heard this next exam is the hardest ever!!”, and #3: the usual high school type rumor mill.
With respect to people pursuing fields for their high income, it’s not just UMKC, it’s like that at most medical schools, as reimbursement esp. by Medicare/Medicaid and even private insurance tends to be less. It tends to be more pronounced at UMKC as people there are much younger and thus haven’t socially matured necessarily. What do you expect when you’re taking Medical school level Gross Anatomy as a sophomore in college? Also, a lot of times, the rules of UMKC Med and administration are not too student friendly, there are exceptions of course, but I am talking about as a whole. So a lot of the times, we felt it was an “us against them” mentality.
Happy to defend you, as in looking at the postings, I thought the whole point of this board was to get the real deal about UMKC. To many people I think fall for the propaganda that is fed to them, and don’t research programs well enough (which is hard to do sometimes). If more people liked UMKC, maybe UMKC wouldn’t have such a bad alumni support problem and could thus give their students more scholarships.
Many esp. those in STL and out-of-staters, esp. tend to be not happy at UMKC. I would say when UMKC charges $50,000K and increasing, for medical tuition, while Harvard is about 34,000 then something is really wrong, esp. when students don’t dissect in the required Anatomy class (now Structure Function).
I’m not trying to put down UMKC, the theory of having docent is good, but in reality it doesn’t always help out or is a learning experience for students depending on the docent group you’re in. Not to mention, much of the curriculum is condensed to fit it into 6 years which doesn’t always help the students. I mean who learns all of Pharmacology in 2 months (believe it or not it used to be 1 month and then they changed it based on the very bad board scores)?