Yale or Penn Vagelos Science Program?

totally
Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:34:11 +0000

I got the vagelos scholar letter too, but if i do decide to matriculate to penn (i’m deciding between penn and brown) i would definitely not do the program. The reasons are 1) you basically live on campus from your sophomore year to commencement, since you do research on campus all summer ($5000 a summer) and 2) if you google it and look at the sample schedule, there is only one or MAYBE 2 non-bio or -chemistry class you can take per semester, which is, in my opinion, ridiculous. But obviously a masters in 4 years or 2 degrees or whatever is quite remarkable, i just don’t think it justifies the things you have to give up to do it.