Brown v Maryland

[buddybrown78]

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Hello everyone! I’m deciding between Brown and Maryland. Currently I live in the Philadelphia area so my first year at Maryland would be OOS and then hopefully I can transition to IS. Please let me know what you think about these schools, about things I may not have considered, and/or correct me if I’m wrong. Im open to any speciality but my possible interests are ENT, Anesthesiology. Thanks!


Brown

Pros

• P/F preclinical

• Need based scholarship of around $50,000 a year

• Providence is a nice small city and the Brown undergrad campus is beautiful

• Nice selection of programs which allow students to aid the community

• Decent research opportunities

• Slightly higher in residency director rankings

• Good match

Cons
• Slightly higher tuition: around $68,000 but offset by scholarship

• Upon first impression slightly unimpressed by med school facilities, compared to Maryland

• Further from home around 5 hr drive


Maryland

Pros

• After first year tuition is cheaper due to IS

• Merit based scholarship of $20,000 per year

• Slightly higher ranked

• Better facilities and health network?

• Slightly higher in USNWR rankings

• Closer to home around 2 hr drive

• More research opportunities due to funding

• Good match

Cons

• Tiered pass fail for courses other than foundations

• Community programs seem to be lacking

• Baltimore is ok

• If calculations are correct will be more expensive (~$60k) after 4 years than Brown

 

[JohnJacobJingleheimer]

Personally, I’d save my 60k and go ahead and order my Brown swag to let everyone know you’re an ivy guy/girl now. Half kidding. Honestly though, that 60k will be 100k after interest. I’d take a pass on that.

Also, props to you for not even mentioning the fact that Brown has the ivy lay prestige lol. If only we could all be a bit less shallow like you 👏🏼

 

[skimm]

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[Apple Jacks]

I think the program at Maryland is better imo but Brown is cheaper (60K with interest is a decent amount) and it seems like the ivy league name helps them match + p/f pre-clinicals, so my vote goes to Brown.

 

[BritainKittenMittens]

Yeah, I'd go with Brown here too for the reasons above.