<p>I have to say UT-Dallas strikes me as a weird place to apply from here, but if they have a reasonable pre-med program that’s what you should do. Makes no sense at all to pass up the full ride. Drexel will be more expensive than Pitt even with the scholarship, and no better academically or by reputation.</p>
<p>If you were coming from out of state, you’d probably get full tuition at Pitt. However, you are in-state and Pitt wants to recruit out-of-state. On top of that, state support for college and college students in Pennsylvania is among the worst in the country. Taking the situation you find yourself in, the thing to do is apply out-of-state to schools that want to recruit out-of-state (like Pitt, in reverse). Sounds like that’s what you might have done already with UT-Dallas. So go ahead and follow through. Maybe your plan can be to do real well at UT-Dallas (or whereever), and then come back to Pitt for medical school without any undergraduate debt.</p>
<p>If you get more money from Pitt, that’s great and I think you deserve it. But there are many, many others in the same boat.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>