UPitt vs Penn State

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Wed, 02 Apr 2014 03:05:42 +0000

I have daughters at both Pitt and Penn State. They are both very good schools - neither one is a bad choice. My take on this is that if you are at all interested in any medical or health field, Pitt is, by far, the better choice. I’ve been amazed at the opportunities that are present, ON CAMPUS, for Pitt students to participate in research opportunities. Not to say that research opportunities don’t exist at PSU, but at Pitt, it literally means walking about 400 feet (okay, it’s uphill) to work in a top 10 medical center. PSU cannot provide that.

I’m aware that anecdotal evidence is certainly not statistically significant, but D1 and all three of her undergrad roommates, who were in health science fields had both research and summer internships all four years of undergrad at Pitt. Well, except for the one roommate who’s now in the Pitt MD/PhD program - she had a summer internship at Stanford for one summer.