<p>You can get whatever you want out of Pitt, I’m convinced. You just have to work the system, and it sounds like you’re doing that already with the football coach. D is accepted there and I am very impressed with the place. If you get the tuition scholarship (or win the Chancellors’), you could do a lot worse than going tuition-free to Pitt. You’ll have great classmates and still probably be at the top of your class. the research opportunities at Pitt and at UPMC are many. More than where you went to school, your GPA, MCAT, and letters of rec will determine whether you go to med school. And when you go to med school, you will have more money in the 529 and less debt when you leave your studies. This sounds like a great opportunity, but you are in competition with my D ;+)</p>
<p>If you don’t go to med school, nothing much changes. Pitt is still more well known in the east than Purdue, and it is sufficiently large that it has every major that most of us can think of, some of them like English and neuroscience among the best in the land. What’s not to like?</p>