Temple or Upenn

[kingrabbit]

Anybody's thoughts on this one? No scholarship for either one.

I know Temple is in a bad neighborhood. Does the same apply to Upenn?

 

[Simiam]

Doesn't matter... You're probably not going to live in the neighborhood. I'm going to Temple and I will most likely live in Center City and take the subway to school, it's only 3-4miles. I'm sure you could do the same at UPenn

It kind of depends on what you want from the school. I think there was a thread on this same topic earlier if you want to check.

 

[kingrabbit]

Thanks for the response. I did look at some old threads, but all I could gather from them was that Upenn had a nicer campus and is more didactic.

(http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=377808 and http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=494366&highlight=temple+penn)

I was very impressed with Temple's clinical exposue/requirements.

Maybe someone can shed some light as to how Upenn's clinic compares and/or differs from Temple.

Also, I know more people specialize from Upenn, but won't it be more competitive in the end since more people want to specialize in that school?

Will I be having to study much more at Upenn compared to Temple?

 

[Simiam]

I will most likely be looking to specialize and I am going to Temple. I don't feel like I am at a disadvantage by going there either. You have to consider the "fact" that more people might specialize coming out of UPenn because more people went to UPenn because they wanted to specialize. This could be a stark contrast with Temple where people recognize that it is more focused on producing the best clinicians. My assumption is that more people attending Temple have no intention of specializing. I would assume UPenn will be more competitive because it seems like some of the people attending there are attending because they believe it to be more "presitigious" and because of that there will be a lot more gunners... just my 2 cents.