<p>Hi - can anyone tell me where I would be able to find information comparing UConn and UMass for pre-med? Any input is greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I think I’d visit both, and go to the open houses. They are very similar actually!</p>
<p>Pre-med is just a set of courses. Either school will be good preparation for med school.</p>
<p>UConn is the better school… if you live in Mass., though, go to UMass.</p>
<p>I would say uconn, excellent campus, safe, goodd athletics!!!</p>
<p>Having grown up and been accepted to UConn and also now being a part of the Five Colleges and spending a lot of time at UMass, I would say UConn, no doubt. UMass simply does not have the same facilities, faculty, resources, students, and overall environment that UConn has. Even the honors program at UMass doesn’t begin to compare to UConn’s.</p>
<p>UConn is ranked 66th out of all universities and 26th among publics, and is considered a more selective Tier 1 institution. UMass, meanwhile, isn’t even in the top 100 (it’s 102nd), just makes it in the top 50 among publics (as number 50), and has an overall score of 39/100. Also, the number one state sending out-of-state students to UConn is UMass, which just shows that more and more of their own students are realizing that paying out-of-state tuition at UConn is worth it.</p>
<p>UMass isn’t <em>bad</em> - I feel like I’m trashing it, when I don’t mean to - but isn’t UConn.</p>
<p>Also…as a general observation, as someone who has spent a lot of time on both campuses, UConn certainly has its parties on weekends and for special events, but UMass is just one big party. The drinking there is amazing, in a bad way. And it doesn’t have the same sense of community that UConn does, especially since UConn is the most residential public university in the country and UMass is a commuter school. I would really go with UConn. :/</p>
<p>^ useless to post on this thread… the dummies on this thread just don’t get it… especially lergnom.</p>
<p>^ I apologize, I thought this was another thread.</p>
<p>UMass is definitely not a commuter school–there are many options in the area with the 5 colleges. Better college town than Storrs.</p>
<p>^ Better college town?.. its funny how you are comparing one $hit location with another.</p>
<p>My daugher has been accepted by UCONN and Stony Brook university for pre-med program. Both schools offer 50% tuition waiver. However, the cost UCONN is twice of Stony Brook Univ. Are they any students from UCONN under grads who successfully got into medicine.</p>
<p>rdugg, generally speaking there is no such thing really as a “pre-med program”. Pre-med is just a set of courses you take to apply to medical school (like ThePhilosopher said earlier in this thread), which can be done at any school. Both UConn and Stony Brook will allow your daughter to apply to medical school. It’s really up to your daughter (where she sees herself as a better fit - UConn or Stony Brook).</p>
<p>Is your question: do any students from UConn go to medical school and go on to become doctors, etc.? Is that a serious question. Yes… you can go anywhere and get into any top medical school if you do well enough, and many students at UConn go into fields in medicine.</p>
<p>As for the cost difference, I would say Uconn is at least twice as good of a school as stony brook. Stony Brook ranked 3rd in least happy students after two military schools, according to Princeton review. I don’t buy into those rankings much, but you don’t get a ranking that bad without good reason. That’s not to say that Uconn is that great but it’s certainly better quality than Stony Brook. I guess this depends on your financial situation and personal opinions though. If money were not involved, I would say go to Uconn without hesitation.</p>
<p>Rdugg: no offense, but you need to stop worrying about “success rates.” They’re useless. Many kids succeed in getting into Medical school, and many do not. To be honest, it depends entirely on your daughter and what she does. It has very little to do with where she goes to undergrad.</p>
<p>I live in Connecticut, but lived in the UMASS area for ten years, and have a son who will be entering UMASS this fall. I also taught at one of the five colleges.</p>
<p>Amherst has been rated the best college town in the U.S. in one survey and regularly shows up in the top 10 in other lists.</p>
<p>And the food service has one an award by a restaurant association as the top campus food in the U.S.</p>
<p>I can attest to the area being one of the great places in the whole world to live. It has all the cultural and entertainment attractions of a metropolitan area–within walking distance or on a free bus–combined with rural beauty and outdoor activity.</p>
<p>For example, there is one traditional movie theater in Amherst, three in Northampton, and a multiplex at the Hampshire Mall. That’s in addition to the movie series on campus.</p>
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<p>The ability to take colleges at the lacs in the area is huge, but, truth be told, UMASS is more of a resource to the lacs than the other way around. Where else are you going to study Swedish?</p>
<p>My son saw both and it was no contest.</p>
<p>On this board, I see a lot of threads about isolation and what’s there to do on the weekend but drink, but, yes you can get to the Manchester Mall plus all the clubs on campus. Dynamite ice cream, though.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that UCONN isn’t a fine school, it is, but the academic differences between the schools is a distinction without a difference.</p>
<p>I’d let price be your guide. But if they would cost you the same, as they might depending on aid or choosing a New England Regional major, you can’t surpass the Pioneer Valley.</p>
<p>My son is thrilled when we joke that we’re going to move back to Amherst to be near him.</p>
<p>^“the academic differences between the schools is a distinction without a difference”
really?i am under the impression that Uconn is superior academically(better ranking,higher reputation and more resources)</p>
<p>that’s my point, the higher ranking of UCONN is marginal. It’s not like the difference between Harvard and some unaccreditted college on a matchbook cover.</p>
<p>I have no knowledgeable way to compare the facilities, but as a parent, I was pleased with what I saw and impressed with the orientation setup for new students.</p>
<p>People rag on the architecture but as an architecture buff I can say that UMASS is a museum of brutalist architecture with buildings designed by some of the 20th century’s greats. I know brutalist sounds bad, but look it up.</p>
<p>on ratemyprofessors.com UMASS profs as a group have a significantly higher ranking than UCONN’s. But I’m sure that’s not really meaningful either.</p>
<p>UMass actually gave me a scholarship. UConn didn’t and also didn’t have my major so, naturally I had bias towards UMass. Well, everything changed when I visited both campuses. Mind you, I visited both on Saturdays in the same month around the early lunch to 2 PM time frame. UMass was literally dead during this time. No one was outside, the buildings were old and scary, and even the tour giver was pretty gloomy. When I visited UConn, it was very alive there, and many (random) students gladly would approach my tour or even drive by and tell about how happy they are at UConn. There were people playing volleyball outside and eating, it looked absolutely great. Most of the buildings were well maintained and new looking. I cannot comment on the pre-med programs, but really visit both campuses to see how the campus life is. UMass’ was so not to my liking that I ended up choosing UConn even though my major doesn’t even exist at UConn.</p>