UMD vs Pitt

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Anonymous wrote:Take a drive on over to College Park, maybe when the Cherry Blossoms are blooming. Definitely worth a look at the new development. You might be surprised. Also interesting to see where Purple Line is going in.

For education and personal advancement, it is the best location. Not good for shrinking violets though since it is a little hardscrabble. Maybe that’s why UMD grads are better inventors and creators than other schools because the students are generally more resilient and tougher from the beginning.

Can you elaborate on the "hardscrabble" part. you make it sound like they have fight their way to class and/or have their lunch money taken away in the hallways..

Hardscrabble ... what a funny way to describe UMD. Now the students are super-competitive (a lot of them are basically cream of the crop from MD’s top high schools). The MD high schools send a lot of kids to UMD and they bring the overachiever mindset (some of them, but not all, also bring their dads bmw). It’s a big school so kids need to be a self-starter and resilient. Is that hardscrabble? Don’t think so.

It’s a good state school no doubt but to say it’s the “cream of the crop” from the top high schools is a bit stretching it. Readers on this site have to recognize that some folks on this board seem to have a vested interest in boosting UMD.

Or it’s true. Take a look at stats for Honors College. And yes, the top high schools are sending cream of the crop to Honors College/Banneker Key.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PITT has some catching up to do but it’s very similar. Tough smart resilient kids.

Pitt is nothing like UMD or UVA

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Pitt if you want to major in anything medical or CS or Engineering.

In state UMD for everything else.

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Anonymous wrote:Pitt if you want to major in anything medical or CS or Engineering.

In state UMD for everything else.

You obviously don't know what you are talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:Pitt if you want to major in anything medical or CS or Engineering.

In state UMD for everything else.

You obviously don't know what you are talking about.

Pitt for everything medical is right. But definitely UMD for comp Sci and engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:Take a drive on over to College Park, maybe when the Cherry Blossoms are blooming. Definitely worth a look at the new development. You might be surprised. Also interesting to see where Purple Line is going in.

For education and personal advancement, it is the best location. Not good for shrinking violets though since it is a little hardscrabble. Maybe that’s why UMD grads are better inventors and creators than other schools because the students are generally more resilient and tougher from the beginning.

Can you elaborate on the "hardscrabble" part. you make it sound like they have fight their way to class and/or have their lunch money taken away in the hallways..

Hardscrabble ... what a funny way to describe UMD. Now the students are super-competitive (a lot of them are basically cream of the crop from MD’s top high schools). The MD high schools send a lot of kids to UMD and they bring the overachiever mindset (some of them, but not all, also bring their dads bmw). It’s a big school so kids need to be a self-starter and resilient. Is that hardscrabble? Don’t think so.

It’s a good state school no doubt but to say it’s the “cream of the crop” from the top high schools is a bit stretching it. Readers on this site have to recognize that some folks on this board seem to have a vested interest in boosting UMD.

Or it’s true. Take a look at stats for Honors College. And yes, the top high schools are sending cream of the crop to Honors College/Banneker Key.

Where are the stats for the honors colleges? I remember hearing that the average sat score for the ILS honors college was 1550 but have not found that information online

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Anonymous wrote:Pitt if you want to major in anything medical or CS or Engineering.

In state UMD for everything else.

You obviously don't know what you are talking about.

Pitt for everything medical is right. But definitely UMD for comp Sci and engineering.

Pitt has a good medical school. Does that in any way make it a good pre-med school?

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Anonymous wrote:Pitt if you want to major in anything medical or CS or Engineering.

In state UMD for everything else.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pitt if you want to major in anything medical or CS or Engineering.

In state UMD for everything else.

You obviously don't know what you are talking about.

Pitt for everything medical is right. But definitely UMD for comp Sci and engineering.

+1

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Pitt, hands down. The Oakland neighborhood is such a great college environment. You can talk about individual departments at U. Md. all you want but it’s still College Park, which is just drab and uninspiring.

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Pitt, especially if honors college.

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Anonymous wrote:Pitt, hands down. The Oakland neighborhood is such a great college environment. You can talk about individual departments at U. Md. all you want but it’s still College Park, which is just drab and uninspiring.

College Park is ugly—it’s a real shame that UMD is located there. And agree that Pitt and the surrounding neighborhood are great. But it would be odd to pass up UMD CS or engineering for Pitt. I’m surprised there are people on here advocating for that.

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There's a lot of hype for Pitt in NoVA, but those are based on 1) being pre-med and taking advantage of opportunities at the UPMC and 2) receiving merit aid.

The location is no doubt great, Pittsburgh is a great city minus the weather.

It's incoming class statistics is not comparable to UMCP. They are ranked the same in USNews along with U. Washington, but both U. Pitt and U. Washington are boosted by their medical schools (of which U. Washington's is among the best, while U. Pittsburgh's medical center is among the largest).

U. Maryland and U. Washington at the least are underanked by USNews. Ranked behind Ohio State and the University of Georgia, seriously? Even Florida State? The faculty and student quality paints a different picture.

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Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of hype for Pitt in NoVA, but those are based on 1) being pre-med and taking advantage of opportunities at the UPMC and 2) receiving merit aid.

The location is no doubt great, Pittsburgh is a great city minus the weather.

It's incoming class statistics is not comparable to UMCP. They are ranked the same in USNews along with U. Washington, but both U. Pitt and U. Washington are boosted by their medical schools (of which U. Washington's is among the best, while U. Pittsburgh's medical center is among the largest).

U. Maryland and U. Washington at the least are underanked by USNews. Ranked behind Ohio State and the University of Georgia, seriously? Even Florida State? The faculty and student quality paints a different picture.

Check your US News/World for Pitt's 2023 Medical School rankings -- #14 in research and #10 in primary care. And check out the residency director scores which place it in the top 10 nationally, ranked between JHU, Harvard and Stanford. I would say that Pitt is pretty darn good in medicine based on those facts along.

UW is tops also. UMD is very good as well, but Pitt has better rankings than UMD across the board.

https://www.reddit.com/r/premed/comments/tvj03m/2023_pd_rankings_from_us_news/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of hype for Pitt in NoVA, but those are based on 1) being pre-med and taking advantage of opportunities at the UPMC and 2) receiving merit aid.

The location is no doubt great, Pittsburgh is a great city minus the weather.

It's incoming class statistics is not comparable to UMCP. They are ranked the same in USNews along with U. Washington, but both U. Pitt and U. Washington are boosted by their medical schools (of which U. Washington's is among the best, while U. Pittsburgh's medical center is among the largest).

U. Maryland and U. Washington at the least are underanked by USNews. Ranked behind Ohio State and the University of Georgia, seriously? Even Florida State? The faculty and student quality paints a different picture.

Check your US News/World for Pitt's 2023 Medical School rankings -- #14 in research and #10 in primary care. And check out the residency director scores which place it in the top 10 nationally, ranked between JHU, Harvard and Stanford. I would say that Pitt is pretty darn good in medicine based on those facts along.

UW is tops also. UMD is very good as well, but Pitt has better rankings than UMD across the board.

https://www.reddit.com/r/premed/comments/tvj03m/2023_pd_rankings_from_us_news/

Reddit ranking by someone nobody knows? Give me a f'king break. Also, this thread is not about medical school.