Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Quite plenty Pitt graduates proceed to graduate (PhD) programs or in med/research.
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/
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Bitter?
LOL. Bitter? Not at all. Just find PP absolutely stupid and info irrelevant. Don't you?
Not at all. OP asked "which is better?" Several posters said (and I agree) - Pitt for medicine/premed and UMD for all else STEM. Then someone said Pitt was alright for medicine, but that UMD was very very good also.
Pitt is better than alright for medicine/premed. UMD is not bad, but in that area, Pitt comes out ahead.
Too much research and rankings over the years to support this.
Having a strong post college program doesn't mean anything in terms of undergrad. Most of Pitt's medical students are not from Pitt undergrad.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Quite plenty Pitt graduates proceed to graduate (PhD) programs or in med/research.
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.![]()
Bitter?
LOL. Bitter? Not at all. Just find PP absolutely stupid and info irrelevant. Don't you?
Not at all. OP asked "which is better?" Several posters said (and I agree) - Pitt for medicine/premed and UMD for all else STEM. Then someone said Pitt was alright for medicine, but that UMD was very very good also.
Pitt is better than alright for medicine/premed. UMD is not bad, but in that area, Pitt comes out ahead.
Too much research and rankings over the years to support this.
Having a strong post college program doesn't mean anything in terms of undergrad. Most of Pitt's medical students are not from Pitt undergrad.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.![]()
Bitter?
LOL. Bitter? Not at all. Just find PP absolutely stupid and info irrelevant. Don't you?
Not at all. OP asked "which is better?" Several posters said (and I agree) - Pitt for medicine/premed and UMD for all else STEM. Then someone said Pitt was alright for medicine, but that UMD was very very good also.
Pitt is better than alright for medicine/premed. UMD is not bad, but in that area, Pitt comes out ahead.
Too much research and rankings over the years to support this.
Having a strong post college program doesn't mean anything in terms of undergrad. Most of Pitt's medical students are not from Pitt undergrad.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.![]()
Bitter?
LOL. Bitter? Not at all. Just find PP absolutely stupid and info irrelevant. Don't you?
Not at all. OP asked "which is better?" Several posters said (and I agree) - Pitt for medicine/premed and UMD for all else STEM. Then someone said Pitt was alright for medicine, but that UMD was very very good also.
Pitt is better than alright for medicine/premed. UMD is not bad, but in that area, Pitt comes out ahead.
Too much research and rankings over the years to support this.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.![]()
Bitter?
LOL. Bitter? Not at all. Just find PP absolutely stupid and info irrelevant. Don't you?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Pitt engineering has always been great and the CS folks have cross over with CMU.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.![]()
Bitter?
Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the love for Pitt here. I'm a Pennsylvania native, and my parents used to use the prospect of Pitt as a threat: "If you don't find a way to get that A, you'll end up at Pitt" and "We can't afford to pay for the schools you want to attend, so if you don't pull off that scholarship, you'll end up at Pitt." My friends' parents said similar things.
And indeed, the kids who ended up at Pitt (my brothers included) were not stupid, but were not exactly academic powerhouses. It's a school for high average kids who don't want to or can't get the grades for a truly excellent school. Sure, it's improved a bit, but it isn't a great school by any means.
Anonymous wrote: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.![]()