"I can confidently say that this is a fantastic place for anyone looking for a supportive and nurturing environment for their medical education. The staff here are incredibly personable and always go above and beyond to make sure that students feel heard and valued. One of the things I love about the school is how much they genuinely care about the success and well-being of their students. The administration and faculty actively listen to feedback and are constantly making adjustments to improve the learning experience. They recently received about 20 million in funding from the state to help build a new skills-building that is almost done, and looks like it will be amazing. If you're looking for a school that prioritizes not only your education but also your success and personal growth, William Carey is the place to be. The staff truly strives to help you reach your fullest potential, and I couldn't ask for a better medical school experience." | Report Response

"They accepted a lot of rural students and lower stat applicants, many of which have been making it (although some did repeat). Glad they give students like that a chance. They revamped the study spaces a bit to add more options since class sizes are getting bigger. We have some new faculty that are really making positive changes and working to excite students about Osteopathy. Love the ultrasound certification program. It is so helpful, and the faculty are great. We get board prep materials and a custom study program that is based on our exam date. There are tutors in the upper classes available, and you can become one yourself and get paid." | Report Response

"Some great professors, dean is nice" | Report Response

"I liked the small group sessions for CPC." | Report Response

"Professors are usually kind, pretty intelligent, and make wonderful lecture materal that appears to be board relevant." | Report Response

"3rd and 4th year are under your discretion - but that's a double edged sword" | Report Response

"I got accepted with a very low score. They accept anyone, and everyone gets off the waitlist since most people accepted to WCUCOM and somewhere else choose the somewhere else." | Report Response

"The faculty, they are extremely helpful and you will get to know them." | Report Response

"Faculty, OSCE training, Physical exam training" | Report Response

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"One area that could be improved is the pace of certain courses. At times, the volume of material can feel overwhelming, especially during more intensive modules like respiratory or cardio (idk that this is unique to my school, though). However, the faculty is receptive to feedback, and they are always looking for ways to improve the curriculum" | Report Response

"The class itself is very competitive. Towards the end of the year, people started deleting resources from the class drive. The campus feels unsafe at times. Parking is frustrating. Staff are distant, and it is hard to get issues resolved. Issues all get pushed towards class representatives and SGA, and it feels like as individual students you can't go to a professor yourself. One class kept uploading old lecture recordings instead of teaching live, and that class professor was never on campus in their office if you needed help. The environment just doesn't feel motivating or overall good to be in. Most people leave asap the minute a mandatory lecture is over. The attitude towards NPs is extremely negative, so be warned if you were one or support NP autonomy. The school encourages students to go to the capital and show support for the med associations being against NP autonomy, but many of the students that go to these are not even from MS or want to practice in MS. Idk feels weird. Glad I am getting a degree I dreamed about, but this has been such a rough program to enjoy. Student moral is really low overall. Feels like high school (in all the bad ways). Not to say there aren't a few good people and professors." | Report Response

"OPP grading feels super subjective, schedule got signficantly worse this year vs other years." | Report Response

"Holding people in the class accountable for unprofessionalism is about impossible." | Report Response

"OPP exams have a ridculously small time limit which makes them very rushed and not practical at testing competency." | Report Response

"Histology 1st year is dreadful - you'll find out 2nd year that most of OPP (while being ~120 years old) is not supported by most hard science, and only mostly used by people who run OPP clinics (source: https://jaoa.org/article.aspx?articleid=2765401). WCU will also require mandatory attendance only for the classes that aren't board/real-life relevant (OPP and CPC)" | Report Response

"EVERYTHING ELSE. Attendance is required so you have barely any time outside of class to study, because of this there's not enough time for self-care, cooking, exercise, STUDYING, sleeping, etc. William Carey doesn't care-y about anything except how to bring the school more money at any chance they can get. They'll fail students based on a ONE question difference, just to make them pay extra tuition for a semester. Carey also does NOT get the same experience and opportunities as other medical schools. Also, they are very unfair and irrational when doing placements for rotations. Someone can have a wife and baby or a significant other or family living in a rotation cite city, but they'll choose to give it to someone with no connections to that city. They don't listen to the students opinions or desires or care about what the students ever have to say." | Report Response

"Sometimes there can be some red tape with the admin and the attendance policy." | Report Response

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"The facilities at William Carey are brand new and really well-maintained. The campus is clean, and there are lots of places to study. We also get a 24/7 access student ID, so you can go in and out of the buildings whenever you need to, which is super convenient." | Report Response

"They are building a new clinic, but the current spaces are getting kind of dated. They are also unclean a lot bc they have like one woman cleaning all the buildings." | Report Response

"Well maintained, relatively up to date." | Report Response

"Building a new building, but the plugs in the preclinical lecture halls don't work and you sit there for hours a day. Parking is also ridiculous at times for commuters." | Report Response

"Facilities are new if not a bit small for the two on campus OMS classes" | Report Response

"We're building new buildings for the WCU campus - but that's at the expense of 3rd and 4th years who tell current 2nd years that they don't receive any feedback from the main campus despite paying $41,000+ and rising" | Report Response

"old, cheap equipment; we don't really get any real patient experience, unlike all other medical schools, we DON'T practice IV's, blood draws, or vaccinations on real humans, we practice on dolls." | Report Response

"The facilities are honestly on par with most other DO schools, theres some complaints about lack of study space but I have never honestly felt that. Theres 6-7 breakout rooms and a full service library on campus to study at." | Report Response

"I honestly feel super prepared for practice after being at William Carey. We have in-person skills labs almost every week, which is a lot more than many other schools. I really appreciate how much hands-on experience we get before we even start rotations. By the time you’re in the clinic, you feel ready to jump in and take on real-world situations." | Report Response

"It seems most are good for practice." | Report Response

"Predominantly primary care. Lots match and work in the south." | Report Response

"Couldn't tell you - for the most part there's usually 1 or 2 anesthesiologist or urologists that the dean holds up as a demonstration of the school's worth while (paradoxically) praising the fact that we're seemingly number 1 in the country for producing primary care Doctors (the bottom of the pyramid Residency designation - similar to if a High School bragged to the big-city schools that they created the most plumbers)" | Report Response

"99% go into primary care" | Report Response

"Mostly everyone places into residency(98-100% each year). They do fine in residency and after." | Report Response

"Obtain specialty of choice 90%" | Report Response

"Rotations at William Carey are awesome because you get the chance to be in Mississippi or New York. I’ve had great experiences with most of my preceptors (Mississippi), and they’ve been really supportive and nice. Scheduling rotations can be a bit tricky sometimes, but I know the school is working on getting more rotation counselors to help make that process smoother. Overall, the experience has been great, and I feel like I’m getting a well-rounded education in different settings." | Report Response

"good range over the area" | Report Response

"There are hub sites that you get assigned to. These are in MS, LA, and NY. You'll have to travel back 3 times in OMS-3 for Clinical exams. You get a vacation block. You can do an international rotation or research rotation." | Report Response

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"The best ones are in Jackson, Hattiesburg, or the Gulf Coast. We recently did an anonymous lottery that forced students to go to the 2 worst locations that are offered (relatively among the students), of the Delta, MS and Paris, TN. Those students had no rebuttal, and couldn't appeal the decision, because the school needed at least one student at each rotation spot, so that the locations would continue accepting students when we expanded to a 150-person and 200-person class size" | Report Response

"ALL are in the middle of nowhere, they don't care about love because even if you have a fiance or a significant other or a wife and kids that live in a rotation site, they might put you somewhere else and put someone with ZERO connections in that spot instead. They are very unfair because they selfishly want to keep small rotation sites that NO ONE wants to go to so they'll put people there with no support and far from their loved ones, instead of adding more sites at a better place just so that they can keep the place as a rotation site, at the expense of the well-being and mental health of the students." | Report Response

"Plenty of sites in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tenneseee." | Report Response

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"We have close to 99% match rate from what I understand. Lots of students go into Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Psych, and General Surgery (probably 5 or so every year)" | Report Response

"Good" | Report Response

"20 SOAPS this year. There was an ortho match." | Report Response

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"I think only 3-4 students had to SOAP, but there was quite a few that had to stay in MS. Not a lot went to Research hospitals, but you know that when you come here" | Report Response

"On par with most other DO schools, in fact better than some of the new schools. William Carey has 2 major hospitals its affiliated with in Hattiesburg and UMMC in Jackson frequently takes carey grads. This past year we were one of the few schools who had a neurosurgery match. We have also had derm, ortho, ENT and urology in the past years. Everything else from Gen Surg to DR/IR/PMR to IM/EM is pretty common." | Report Response

"Overall it's a good place to attend school, the complaints are minor and for the price, it's probably one of the best med schools IMO" | Report Response

"Professors make Transgender comments. I know people try to say the med school is separate from main campus, but you need to remember what people are drawn to work at a Baptist private institution. Felt uncomfortable many times regarding this topic and I am not Transgender myself. Don't even try to learn about abortions in the clinical course. Someone asked about it and it was the end of conversation for lecture. These old mindsets still infiltrate the learning experience, and there are classmates that also play into this. Just stick to yourself and get through the 4 years." | Report Response

"Lots of faculty leaving or getting close to it. We already had 2 deans go. Class sizes are getting bigger, but it seems ill managed. Also, people got super competitive this year in the preclinical classes. Some things that happened this year: someone left a dead turtle on someone car, constant cheating scandals, etc. Most of these students just got a talking to, but they continue onward. I'm disappointed in the unprofessional environment of a graduate program." | Report Response

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"Despite the fact that the school is Christian, there's a strong separation between the main campus and the medical school (both physically and socially). Meaning that there's very few extra-curriculars for you to be a part of outside of loosely attended club meetings, and the weekly bible-study. Meaning that this is a "bring your own partner" kind of spot, as the singles have very few instances to meet each other, and the lecture halls only facilitate 100 people each (despite the 150-person class size - expanding to 200-person next year). Timing of events is changed rapidly, and teachers who make girls uncomfortable are often kept on, as no one really wants to live in Hattiesburg, MS" | Report Response

"William Carey's curriculum is set up in a horrible way. If you get accepted ANYWHERE ELSE, go there instead. Also, William Carey has no place for the students to study. There's a few small windowless rooms with tables, otherwise you can study in the lecture hall where classes are held or at home. The school library closes at 5pm, which doesn't help when class gets out at 2 or 3pm or later. Most students study at home or go to USM's library to study. There is also no student lounge and not enough parking." | Report Response

"Undervalued school" | Report Response