Good schools to transfer to from a community college?
I am a community college student with a gpa of around 3.6, (doing my best to bring that number up). I have a decent amount of extra cirriculars (also doing my best to bring that up). I'll be applying to schools this fall, I was wondering which schools, private and public, I should be applying to. I'm not worrying so much about tuition. So far I'm going to apply to some local private colleges, like Pomona College and UCI,UCLA,UCSD,UC BERKELEY (yes i'm from socal-don't mind going to the east coast for college). I also plan on applying to Colombia, Caltech, Cornel, Princeton, USC and ... University of Chicago (<-- the loser from the east side d: ) [: Really would appreciate a list of nice schools to look at and apply to-even more obscure private ones (anything that might ease my transition into medical school-if i even get in O;-lol ;D).
How many hours (appx) do you get from a U.S. med school like SUNY or Columbia?
The basic thing is that there are not enough internships for all the graduates of US medical schools. A fair number of people who have passed US medical school do not become doctors because they could not get an internship. Hence, only the very, very top scoring of grads from Caribbean medical schools ever get a US internship. And without one you cannot become a practicing doctor in the USA. You need to examine the success rate that your offshore medical school has for placing students into a US internship. The rate is pretty low.
What do you think about NYU making its medical school tuition free?
NYU probably decided to do this after its uptown rival made the same move, which might have made Columbia a serious challenger to NYU for the most prestigious medical school in New York. NYU's matching Columbia in making medical school tuition free will allow NYU to maintain its ranking as the top medical school and university in New York.
Is Penn State an Ivy League School; if not, how does it compare with Ivy League schools?
Penn is an Ivy League school. Not Penn State (or the Pennsylvania State University). The Ivy League is:BrownColumbiaCornellDartmouthHarvardPenn - University of PennsylvaniaPrincetonYaleRichard Moll wrote of the "public Ivies" in 1985, which originally were defined as:College of William & MaryMiami University (Ohio)University of CaliforniaUniversity of Michigan University of North Carolina University of TexasUniversity of VermontUniversity of VirginiaPenn State did not make that list, but was cited as a runner up by Moll.In 2001, a new "public Ivies" list was created by Howard and Matthew Greene and they list Penn State as a "public Ivy" in the Northeast region (along with Binghamton University (SUNY) and UConn).For 2016, US News and World Report's National University listing ranks, Penn (University of Pennsylvania) at No. 9 and Penn State in a tie for No. 47. This ranking puts Penn at the No. 5 spot among the Ivy League (behind Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Columbia). It also puts Penn State well down in the rankings among the "public Ivies".Now, for individual colleges in any university, a school can rank very highly. The US News and World Report rankings, as well as many others, attempt to compile a more general picture. For example, Penn State is ranked by US News and World Report at No. 1 for Geology (grad), No. 2 for Geochemistry (grad), No. 2 for Environmental Sciences (grad), No. 3 for Supply Chain Logistics and No. 5 for Nuclear Engineering. Penn State is an "ag and mining (engineering)" land grant institution, so its strengths are in those areas.Penn is ranked No. 1 for undergraduate business school (Donald Trump's alma mater), No. 1 nursing (grad), No. 5 medical (grad), and No. 7 law school (grad). But, unlike Penn State, Penn only ranks at No. 71 for earth sciences (grad).So, go to Penn State for the engineering, earth sciences, and ag programs (and others). Go to Penn for the business, arts, and grad programs in education, business, nursing, medicine, and law.