your anxiety is justified but SPM though will culture shock you is so much
better than it was 25 years ago
you actually have a school buildings a library
kaplan cable internet
we had none of this
you will be fine

Howard Johnson was the hotel macoris years ago and it was a disgrace
horrible and would send some back home running
now the hotel is friendly comfortable clean and filled with students
and baseball players.
i would not recommend living there.
share an apt with others elsewhere
or a house. YOu will have more freedom and comforts
HJ though good for me cos i visit frequently as a long time ago graduate
is not a place to live in!!!!

relax
you will be fine

write me if you want anytime

Hello,
Good luck in all your endeavours. I sincerely HOPE that you did the wise thing and VISITED the island before committing to a school, cause it wold be DOWNRIGHT FOOLISH to enroll in a school blindly. Just my $0.02
PEACE!

-Derek

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uce has there program in spanish..if you do want to go to a spanish university go toa better one then uce...

That was a little harsh. Maybe not so much a better one as a cheaper one. If you're gonna go the spanish avenue there are schools less than half the price. UASD for example comes to something like $1,500 per YEAR and they've been in business since shortly after columbus set foot on the island. But since you have your heart set on UCE, no worries, you'll do fine there, they've produced a lot of great docs practicing in the US, I'm sure if you do what you came here to do, you'll join those ranks in a few years.
Take care and God Bless

Hi I graduated from Uce two years ago, and I'm going to share something with you that probably most us students don't like to hear, it's true that you can't compare education at Uce with some university here, but in my experience when us go to DR they feel like they are in the paradaise with all the money from the loans and they do nothing but party, drink, drugs and then blaim the university when they came here and don't know shed and can't pass their boards, no all of them are like that but after a while they'll get like that, because if you go to DR a country were you can do whatever you want any time you want is going to be very hard to try to put your mind on the study. About the light don't wooried there are a lot of aparments with generatos, rotation in the us you can do it but what's the meanig of coming here when you're going to be just looking when there you do eveything, I did a couples of lumbar puncion, salpingectomy, hernias and so forth, I already took step 1, I'm taking step 2 in two month and yesterday I went to pawn shop to pay for the CS, so I can go for the match next year, bottom line it's not about the university is about you. I'm very proud of beign Dominican, of my University (UCE) and there's a lot good doctors that graduate from UCE

I was wondering why the HJ hotel is not a place to live? because, I have to live there for at least the first one to two months.
thanks

I would reccomend the Ho Jo for the first semester. The only drawback is the price, but if you can afford it it is good. They won't let you stay for only a month or two, you have to sign on for the whole semester. Don't worry about what everybody writes here, it comes down to what you are made of yourself.
Martin

why do you have to live there?
(IMHO)
when i go there to visit for the last 20 years
i see students locked in a small space that isnt their own personal space and
it is very much like a dormitory.
There is noise from the disco or the events that occur near the pool.
This can be quite intolerable and i am not exagerating!
The baseball team recruits who live there are rude and obnoxious.
They think they own the place and in many ways do!
This is not the environment i would like to live in!

For a short period of time maybe..........?
but
having had my own home in Miramar was so much nicer and freer and
happier. Less insitutionalized also.

Lets all grow up people. We're gonna be doctors.
This isnt college fraternity time.

I have three questions,

1- UCE has only sent me a letter of acceptance as an attached file via
email. They never told me which one of my cources count toward the pre-med. So basically I don't know if I have
to take pre-med courses or if I am in the med program. Did they do this to
you as well? They are not good with communicating (sending letters,
etc...).
THEY KEEP SAYING JUST COME OVER HERE, DON'T WORRY! WE WILL TAKE CARE OF IT
WHEN YOU GET HERE.

2- Thanks for the info on HJ. What do I have to do to let them know I am a
UCE student, and will be moving inn on Jan 1st. Do they need any
documentation to prove acceptance , or fin aid?

3- I don't know a word of Spanish. I have bought many e-dictionaries in
order to be able to study in Spanish. Were you bilingual when you first
went to UCE? I am not concerned with speaking the language, I am more
concerned about passing the courses.

SORRY ABOUT ALL THE QUESTIONS!!!!!!
Thank you

What is the deal with the stafford loans? How much do students get at UCE??? Please specify per/semester or academic year? I am really confused.
Thanks