<p>I simply do not understand how there could be any possible benefit of this student moving to the Midwest when she is far more comfortable in the Philadelphia area. She is going to an undergraduate school, not a graduate or medical school. If she wants to go to the best for medical school, then she should strive for Penn, but going to Temple undergraduate will be far better for her, not only because she will be at home and more comfortable, which likely will result in better school performance, but because she will avoid the type of people who look down on schools like temple without knowing anything about the types of students who go there. When you read something like his: “The quality of the students and the teaching will be quite different at Temple vs. U. Chicago or Midd. It’s not just prestige----it’s everything at a top notch school vs. one that isn’t.” you have to ask yourself how this poster could possibly know anything about the teaching of Premed at Temple, and the quality of its Premed students. This poster and others are making inferences upon inferences, all without any facts to back them up. I can tell you that they have some very sharp and good people at Temple. Don’t buy into this arrogance and blindness of the “prestige sect”. This young lady can make a wonderful life for herself, but she needs to avoid the garbage floating about on this site about how only the top schools are worth it.</p>