Stay at Rutgers or Transfer to Penn??

seattlems333
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:45:16 +0000

I’d like to go to a top-flight med school mainly for the name prestige that would come with getting a degree from said school, which would ultimately (at least I think it should) make it easier to attain a residency and job later in life.

I am not unhappy at Rutgers, it’s kinda just there. Nothing special, nothing terrible; simply mediocre. The sad thing is that I am not getting any sort of financial aid whatsoever from Rutgers…not a penny. I had the SAT scores to get a full scholarship, but I got screwed over by my class rank since I went to an elite magnet school. Kinda sucks that I have to pay full in-state tuition.

I haven’t received my financial aid package from Penn yet. I am also awaiting notification of which/how many credits Penn will accept from my first two years at Rutgers. I am very opposed to the idea of retaking courses and taking an extra year to complete my undergraduate degree, so if not enough of my credits transfer successfully, I am almost guaranteed to remain at Rutgers. But I suppose I’ll wait and see…