USC (Trustee Scholarship) vs Rice

Future34
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 02:51:07 +0000

I’m a sophomore at USC and while I am a political science major who knows little about premed, I can speak to the overall quality of the university. It is a phenomenal institution and I’m happy to say that coming here versus a variety of other schools was the best decision I’ve ever made! There is a fantastic social atmosphere, however, the academics are tremendous as well. USC places a strong emphasis on networking and consequently the fact that if you have USC next to your name it means a big difference - I don’t see that not being the case for any program. I was interviewing for an internship once and when the guy asked to make sure I went to USC and I responded with an affirmative answer, his statement was basically: When can you start? End of interview.

As far as premed, all I can really say is that USC is pouring tons of money (literally hundreds of millions) into Keck right now. Last year Oracle CEO Larry Ellison donated $200 mil because of the treatment from a USC physician - which should be indicative of the quality of our hospital, and I doubt that USC would waste the experiential opportunities of having our own hospital. You’re also in LA, which has career opportunities for pretty much everything under the sun. Some of my friends are premed and I’ve heard them all talk about how they are doing/have done research, if that is something you are very interested in!

Hope that helps. Regardless, best of luck!