skedaddleduck
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Want to preface this by saying were finances not an option, I would 100000% go for Pitt. But wanted to see what everyone thinks:
Pitt (25k in aid yearly, 280k loans total)
Pros: (in order of importance)
Longsom (180k loans total)
Pros: (in order of importance)
Pitt (25k in aid yearly, 280k loans total)
Pros: (in order of importance)
- Would help tremendously in matching back to Chicago or NE coast
- Interested in specialties ranging from neuro, DR, to ENT and would have great support in all of the above thru strong research support, connections, etc
- Went to second look and vibed immediately with much of the prospective class, current students seem pretty happy
- BIG fan of PF preclins and flex weeks after every block
- Prestige
- Cost. Would be 100k more expensive in total compared to long
- No support (?) Not a big deal to me as I’ve made big moves solo before. But, my entire family is in Texas. Partner is in Chicago so the flight here is much shorter than to Longsom.
- City- neutral compared to san antonio. Both are smaller with less going on, unideal weather on opposite ends of the spectrum. Needless to say as a Texas resident relocated to Chicago, both are equally unideal lolol
Longsom (180k loans total)
Pros: (in order of importance)
- Cost. 100k cheaper total, so about 25k cheaper per year.
- Close to family in Austin (however, they also favor Pitt much more due to prestige)
- Students seem happy here!
- Much harder to match outside of Texas. Apologies Texans😅 I have no intentions of practicing here so this is a drawback
- Unfortunately doesn’t compare to Pitt in research funding/support for more competitive specialties
- Graded preclins with traditional lecture style format, less forgiving curriculum than Pitt