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At UF, I know so many people and if I don’t know someone, there’s a decent chance I know him/her through someone else
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<p>lol…uh no. UF is just too big. There will be a ton of people that you don’t know and who don’t know people that you know. Large univs are not like high school. You may “cross paths” with an occasional person from your high school, but most people will be totally new to you.</p>
<p>I know that kids like to say, “oh half my graduating class will be at the school.” No they won’t. Probably less than 20% will be at UF (the state has too many other univs that students are choosing and some will be going OOS). And the ones that do go to UF will be spread amongst a very large campus. There will be thousands of frosh that you won’t know.</p>
<p>If I were your parents there’s no way that I would pay OOS for PSU when UF is on the table as instate AND with Bright Futures. The cost to go to UF would be less than $15k per year for you. The cost for PSU would be over twice that. That’s throwing away $60k for a school that is essentially the same. </p>
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My ultimate goal is to go to a top med school, hopefully somewhere suburban or urban (for the best education and the experience), which is neither Penn State’s med school or UF’s… That’s long-term, however.
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<p>As for med schools…it doesn’t matter what the med schools at UF or PSU are desirable (I don’t think PSU-UP has a med school). You aren’t hog-tied to any particular med school. </p>
<p>That said, you’ll be lucky to get into ANY med school since the acceptance rates are so low. Med schools are only interviewing about 15% of their applicants and then accepting only about half or less of the students they interview. Don’t get hung up on any particular med school. You’ll go where you get accepted. </p>
<p>ALL US MD schools are excellent. </p>