Pitt. vs other schools

schrizto
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:44:47 +0000

After around 40 or so on US News everything gets kind of muddled. With the rankings, it’s HYPSM clustered at the top and people have a general idea of what’s where (ex. people can guess Duke is behind HYPSM). But once you get to the 40s, people aren’t as aware of which schools are ahead of which. For example, Case, Pitt, Tulane, BU, UConn, and UMiami are all in that range, but do you know their order of rank?

Out of Case or Pitt, neither one will give you a significantly better advantage of going to medical school over the other reputation-wise. I do not know if there is grade inflation/deflation at Case so I can’t comment on that.

Btw, taking honors classes over regular classes in college won’t give you a big boost in med school admissions. The topic is explored much more in depth in a Pitt UHC class, so take honors if you are really interested in the subject, but don’t expect that it is then permissible to get a lower grade than in the regular course. It’s similar to how taking a 21 credit courseload or majoring in an engineering discipline are more rigorous, but it’s not worth doing these things just to impress an adcom.