<p>I'm slightly discouraged by the many rejected letters i received, but not hopeless.</p>
<p>I got accepted to penn state and pitt but can't decide.
Which one should i choose?
Which of them has the best pre-med programs?</p>
<p>If it's Penn State main campus, then go there.</p>
<p>yes, it's university park.
but, why's that important? aren't all the campuses the same?</p>
<p>Have you visited the other campuses? It's not the same. There is a reason it is called the main campus and is 10X harder to get into than the rest of the campuses.</p>
<p>I'd have to say Penn State, simply because Pitt's undergrad is just not that good. Penn State is a solid school for undergrad.</p>
<p>but hes gonna be a premed. obviously its better at pitt</p>
<p>My sister ---a physician in Phila says anything medical is excellent at Pitt. bec of the medical school there.</p>
<p>The problem with Pitt is if you decide not to be pre-med anymore. I don't know much about all that Pitt has to offer, but overall, Penn State is a stronger school. If you end up being one of the many pre-meds who decide they can't hack it, then Penn State is the better place to be, I think.</p>
<p>Maybe Pitt has gotten better. When I was applying to college, it definitely was not the school of choice for my wannabe pre-med friends and me. I'm also not convinced that having a great medical school is really going to benefit undergrads - the school's a ways off from where most undergrads are living and having classes. I'm sure Pitt offers lots of volunteer opportunities, but given the size of University Park, I'm sure that Penn State does, too.</p>
<p>I'm going to Pitt</p>
<p>I do think that because it is a great medical school (14th in the US), there are great opportunities for undergads. UPMC, UPitt Medical Center, is the largest i Western Pennsylvania, there is a Cancer Research Center right there, not to mention the countless other research opportunities (sometimes funded by the U). Pitt is not lacking in the other areas, if you drop out of premed. It has a huge variety of humanities courses, and therefore humanities related majors. Its engineering department just got a donation from one of its alumni, $49ml, and itself is growing. Don't rule it own too quickly.</p>
<p>I'm not ruling it out, at all. If you think that's the best school for you, then go. If you're happier there than at Penn State, that in and of itself will help you do better overall.</p>
<p>However, I'm quite familiar with western PA, and I still stand by my statement that Penn State is the better school. I'm also not convinced that being close to Pitt's medical school is going to be that helpful in the long run.</p>
<p>Two points here. First, to correct a mistatement above, Pitt's medical school shares the campus with the undergraduate school. It is not "a ways off from where most undergrads are living and having classes." Class buildings are intermingled. Second, in general, anything related to medicine at Pitt is very good, even at the undergraduate level. And yes, undergraduate research opportunities are available at the med school. Pretty much any of the sciences are very highly regarded and the biomedical engineering program is also first rate. Other programs vary in quality, as they do at all colleges and universities. </p>
<p>As much as it pains me to say it. Penn State probably has a better engineering school than Pitt, excepting biomed.</p>
<p>Both schools are very good, with certain programs being better than others. One school is pretty close to being rural, with the other being an urban campus. Go where you think you can thrive the best, not where one has a higher rating on someone else's ranking system. What is important for you?</p>