As many OPM’ers know, my heart was set on DMU but I got rejected. I was offered interviews at LECOM-Erie, WVSOM and Touro-CA.
My major deciding factors were school facilities (particularly anatomy lab and clinical simulation or exposure/prep), cost of living, level of faculty support, level of competition/cooperation among students, and small perks such as weather, typical testing days, gym facilities, cafeteria and study spots.
What wasn’t a concern was tuition (loans are loans, are loans, and most schools I was looking at were all in the same range ±5k).
Final decision? WVSOM.
WVSOM’s only negative was the small size of the town. For me, that is a huge perk. I love the family atmosphere on the campus, with the personalized seats in lecture halls, camaderie between students & faculty, extremely awesome anatomy lab and really nice student gym - with free access for spouses. The fact that we can rent a small house for $600 a month is GREAT, and the low cost of living overall makes up for the “high” tuition. I will miss decent Mexican food and sushi, but we’ll survive. 
LECOM was out pretty quickly. While it’s cheap and has a great gym, I didn’t get a good vibe from any of the staff or students, and it felt like no one wanted to be there. Also, the sky was slate gray the entire time I was there. Depressing. Finally, I am just not interested in paying a small fortune to a school, which then has a mandatory dress code while attending lectures. I’m not going to show up to school in pajamas, but I’d rather be in a comfortable hoodie and t-shirt, than wearing business casual attire in weather that freaking cold. /end rant/
TUCOM-CA was really impressive, with the only major negative being the cost of housing, and the high chance that I’d have to drive in traffic to live in a decent size apartment, or smoosh my husband and myself into a studio for 1k a month. Had they accepted me I’d still be wrestling with the decision, because they have a great curriculum, large yet cozy library and really great student-faculty rapport. Their gym is a closet, but I’m sure there’s regular gyms all around town. It felt a lot like the camaderie at WVSOM, but also had opportunities for clinical experience and volunteer work all over the Bay Area. And it would’ve been great to be closer to my family, and living only 30 minutes from my cousin and her new baby. However, they put me on the medium waitlist.
My decision is 100% made, both because I was leaning towards Lewisberg in almost every TouroCA/WVSOM pro-con list, and because I have no interest in doing anymore interviews anywhere else. It’s just not worth the hassle now that I have an acceptance at such a great school. I’m actually sending in the deposit this week, which makes it all seem more real/official.