<p>At this time, my two top choices are Temple Honors and Drexel Honors (Pennoni) - both to which I have already been accepted. I've researched both, but have yet to visit both. Does anyone have any advice on how to choose and how to compare/contrast the two? I am instinctively leaning towards one of them, but I want to be able to back up my decision with objectivity and concrete evidence. Help me out?</p>
<p>I guess it depends on your major, but Temple has a lot more school spirit and is more of the traditional college experience than Drexel.</p>
<p>Does the co-op/internship system at Drexel appeal to you? If you are looking to focus on academics on campus with all of your friends, it might be a drag to have everybody leaving to go do internships.</p>
<p>Majors:
Right now, I am strongly considering Medicine and International Relations (and perhaps Business later on) in terms of my future career. It isn’t as clear cut as, say, Engineering, because Drexel would be the obvious choice. Both colleges provide respectable courses in regards to my fields of interest. Are there opinions out there on which is better?</p>
<p>School Spirit:
Though I do not think school spirit will be one of my deciding factors, I have noted that Temple seems to have much more than Drexel. They are much more involved in their sports and college activities (and their basketball team is pretty awesome, in my opinion). </p>
<p>Co-op:
I do value the co-op option provided at Drexel. And I do see how it could be incredibly useful in fields such as journalism, politics, etc. However, I am not sure if I could really make use of it considering the fields I am entering. Any differing opinions?</p>
<p>Well medicine is not a major, and Temple doesn’t have IR.</p>
<p>confuzz
I am a temple grad and went through their premed/predent program. there is no med major just like most colleges you need to take specific courses to get into med school. you can major in whatever course you enjoy. I chose to major in psych. most tend to major in a bio/chem area. temple has an outstanding reputation in the sciences and getting their students into med/dent schools.
the classes are difficult but the better students do get into grad schools.
locally,temple has a better rep for the sciences than does drexel.
as stated before, drexel is known more for its coop,and engineering programs.
not sure of drexels class size for the lower level bio/chem classes but those are large at temple being a state school. organic chem weeds out those numbers and the upper level classes are smaller in size
any questions please ask me directly.
granted I have been out of dental school for 20 yrs but my kids are now asking these same questions.
in the phila area/suburbs temple has grown into quite the school where many of these students are choosing to live on campus. years ago it was primarily a commuter school attended by most of us philly kids. more and more dorms are being built as the resident population continues to increase.
hope this helps</p>
<p>To all that have responded: thank you so much of all of your input. I appreciate it a lot!</p>
<p>Major:</p>
<p>I am aware that the aforementioned fields are not necessarily majors in either school. I simply chose to post areas that I am interested in for a future career, because I am not sure of what majors I would choose. For some reference, Drexel’s IAS program and Temple’s Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media program somewhat interest me at this point.</p>
<p>Question to fleishmo6 (and anyone else who cares to answer): If you are planning on going into Medicine in the long run, is it any more or less difficult to NOT major in something like Biological Studies or Chemistry. How was your experience majoring in Psychology and subsequently entering Medicine/Dentistry? Is there any advantage to actually majoring in Bio or some other similar field during undergrad? </p>
<p>Other:</p>
<p>Are there any other major differences between Temple Honors and Pennoni that anyone can think of?</p>
<p>I didn’t even know Drexel had an honors program. BTMM is a fantastic program, but why would you major in that if you’re looking into med school?</p>
<p>“is it any more or less difficult to NOT major in something like Biological Studies or Chemistry”</p>
<p>At most schools, the only impact of choosing a non-science major is that you’ll have to use a lot of your electives to fulfill the premed requirements. But not everybody cares that much about having lots of electives in random fields.</p>
<p>I’ve done a lot of research on Temple and from what I understand, Honors kids’ schedules are filled with Honors-specific classes - classes that have only Honors kids in them. The only exception to that is if the kid chooses to opt out or if there is a scheduling conflict.</p>
<p>I was looking at the Drexel Honors college schedules and - correct me if I’m wrong - this is how that program seems to work: Honors kids take regular courses, but for projects or lab reports or study groups, they group together with other Honors kids for that sort of thing. Perks simply include a separate advising staff, cheap tickets to Philadelphia events, a nice lounge, and free printing. The only Honors courses are non-core classes, not Bio, Chem, Econ, etc. - rather, Game Theory and Structure of Graphic Novels. :/</p>
<p>Am I right/wrong? Anyone have anything to add?</p>
<p>Oh, and thank you for all of your input.</p>
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<p>So other than an honors advising staff, not much of an advantage. Anyone in college in Philly can get cheap tix for events, Temple has the TECH Center, which might be the nicest computer center at any college in the country, and printing included in your tuition.</p>
<p>I wish I had the TECH center at my school…le sigh…</p>