<p>Hey guys,
I'm a senior and I've gotten accepted to both UM and UNC and I just can't decide what to do. </p>
<p>UNC:
I've wanted to go here since i was very young, as i grew up in NC and it is my homestate. However, I now live in florida and would have to pay out of state tuition, bringing the cost of attendance to about 36k a year.
I didn't get into the Honors program but they do let you still take honors classes and reapply after your first semester so if i do go, i still have a chance at getting in.
I also didn't get any scholarships and not much financial aid.
But, I've always been a Tar Heel at heart. </p>
<p>UM:
I received the university scholarship for 24k a year, accepted into honors, and accepted into the PRISM program (for research). I was also considered for the Singer scholarship but did not receive it. The cost of attendance comes out to about 32k a year. (so financially, they are both the same basically).
I know UM has a great pre-med program.
I just don't know if I like the social atmosphere much or the fact that i'd be in miami. It's very hard to get around and really expensive to live in. </p>
<p>how is UNC's premed program compared to UM's?
basically, what do i do? lol I'm so torn!
I have lots of friends at both schools so i hear good things all around.</p>
<p>Do I understand you correctly: you’d be paying the same for both? If so, I’d recommend UNC. It’s a world-class university and you’re a tar heel at heart. Unless the PRISM program is something very, very special and offers things you can’t find at UNC, I’d say, go with your heart to North Carolina.</p>
<p>Pre-med is a set of courses that medical schools want to see (chemistry, organic chemistry, biology, physics, English, sometimes calculus and/or statistics) and which will prepare you for the MCAT.</p>
<p>From an academic standpoint, consider also which school is better for the rest of the stuff you want to study, including whatever you want to major in (which does not have to be biology).</p>
<p>yeah, i’d be paying basically the same for both (as of now). the only thing is that i just feel UM “wants” me more because they’re offering me so many things. UNC hasn’t given me much of an incentive except what i started out with.</p>
<p>UNC can’t “want” you as much as a private can. That’s the reality of public schools. But hey, UNC – it’s one heck of a school. As you probably known, it’s among the group of schools known as the ‘public Ivies.’ And at least out here in the west, UNC has a much better name- and “brand”-recognition than UM.</p>