Princeton Med vs. Caltech Med

[neutropenic]

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My friend who is graduating from California University in Newport Coast is having trouble deciding between Princeton and Caltech for medical school. While she would like to stay in sunny California in Pasadena, the small class size of Caltech may be too intense for her. She was also an anthropology major and is interested in holistic healing and medicine.

She hears that Princeton has an excellent reputation and that Princeton Regional Hospital serves a diverse patient population. She is excited by the early clincial exposure of Princeton's curriculum and its diverse training sites from Wilmington, Delaware to Morristown, New Jersey.

Any advice would be appreciated. 🙂

 

[wendywellesley]

My friend who is graduating from California University in Newport Coast is having trouble deciding between Princeton and Caltech for medical school. While she would like to stay in sunny California in Pasadena, the small class size of Caltech may be too intense for her. She was also an anthropology major and is interested in holistic healing and medicine.

She hears that Princeton has an excellent reputation and that Princeton Regional Hospital serves a diverse patient population. She is excited by the early clincial exposure of Princeton's curriculum and its diverse training sites from Wilmington, Delaware to Morristown, New Jersey.

Any advice would be appreciated. 🙂

they are both really good schools and have excellent match lists. i think it really comes down to what part of the country she wants to be in.

 

[calvinandhobbes]

My friend who is graduating from California University in Newport Coast is having trouble deciding between Princeton and Caltech for medical school. While she would like to stay in sunny California in Pasadena, the small class size of Caltech may be too intense for her. She was also an anthropology major and is interested in holistic healing and medicine.

She hears that Princeton has an excellent reputation and that Princeton Regional Hospital serves a diverse patient population. She is excited by the early clincial exposure of Princeton's curriculum and its diverse training sites from Wilmington, Delaware to Morristown, New Jersey.

Any advice would be appreciated. 🙂

keep these threads coming...they are HILARIOUS!!!! wow, omg, have you heard the chuck norris jokes? his tears..do something to...uh, and something about a roundhouse or uppercut...anyways they are f-u-n-n-y!

 

[wendywellesley]

i've always wondered why princeton doesn't have a med school. anyone know?

 

[calvinandhobbes]

My friend who is graduating from California University in Newport Coast is having trouble deciding between Princeton and Caltech for medical school. While she would like to stay in sunny California in Pasadena, the small class size of Caltech may be too intense for her. She was also an anthropology major and is interested in holistic healing and medicine.

She hears that Princeton has an excellent reputation and that Princeton Regional Hospital serves a diverse patient population. She is excited by the early clincial exposure of Princeton's curriculum and its diverse training sites from Wilmington, Delaware to Morristown, New Jersey.

Any advice would be appreciated. 🙂

oh yeah, my vote: HARVARD!! tehehehe...you'd have to be an oldtime SDNer to get this one...yeah og

 

[Trail Boss]

I love these threads. They make my but tingle and I'm straight.

 

[neutropenic]

The matter is also complicated by the fact that Princeton is giving her a merit scholarship since her GPA is a 4.0, she received a 49 U on her MCAT and is a member of the Orange County chapter of mensa. She also had a role as an extra on the television series entitled the O.C. This includes free housing and membership in the graduate students' eating club.

Caltech is only offering her a partial scholarship and it will cost her roughly $10,000 a year to go there but is throwing in free tickets to the Rose Bowl during her years as a student with the guarantee that she won't have clinical duties on that day. However, her family still lives in San Marino and it would be nice for her to be close to her parents and her brother and sister who work in West LA and Riverside respectively. She also fears becoming a Jersey girl and has vowed never to purchase Aquanet. She has heard that the medical school/law school mixers at Princeton are a great place to meet men of promise.

 

[Nexus777]

As funny as this is, just keep in mind that Princeton and CalTech are both involved with med schools in joint programs:

UMDNJ-Princeton MD/PhD program
UCLA-CalTech MD/PhD program

 

[tacrum43]

keep these threads coming...they are HILARIOUS!!!! wow, omg, have you heard the chuck norris jokes? his tears..do something to...uh, and something about a roundhouse or uppercut...anyways they are f-u-n-n-y!

I'm sensing a little bit of sarcasm here.

 

[Law2Doc]

i've always wondered why princeton doesn't have a med school. anyone know?

Probably due to the lack of hospitals of any significance to affiliate with. The NJ state schools have all the big health facilities in the state locked up.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Probably due to the lack of hospitals of any significance to affiliate with. The NJ state schools have all the big health facilities in the state locked up.

Princeton is also the most undergraduate focused Ivy. No law school either.

 

[Law2Doc]

Princeton is also the most undergraduate focused Ivy. No law school either.

They have a ton of graduate programs, just not the professional ones. So not just undergrad focused.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

They have a ton of graduate programs, just not the professional ones. So not just undergrad focused.

True, but compared to most of the other Ivies they have a relatively small population of grad students.

 

[Blue Planet]

i've always wondered why princeton doesn't have a med school. anyone know?

In Princeton's charter, it states that the purpose of the university is to provide a liberal education for students. As such, vocational and professional programs such as law, business and medicine would not fulfill this requirement.

That's why Princeton just has an undergraduate college and graduate school, although they do have an institute of finance.

 

[BozoSparky]

caltech all the way! bigtime nerds, yeah, but they know their stuff! 😉

 

[jjmack]

Probably due to the lack of hospitals of any significance to affiliate with. The NJ state schools have all the big health facilities in the state locked up.

also because if they did it could only go down in rankings by the general public.

 

[Oculus Sinistra]

i've always wondered why princeton doesn't have a med school. anyone know?

Or UC Berkeley...

 

[Mr. Tee]

Or UC Berkeley...

It'd be the Two Towers with UCSF just across the bay.

 

[pinkey]

Or UC Berkeley...

Well, it does... sort of:

http://jmp.berkeley.edu