<p>Brown is one of the schools I’m looking as well as Cornell and Duke for pre med and I am trying to decide where I would like to go (if I am fortunate enough to get into all three). I realize that since this is a brown forum you will most likely be biased towards brown but thats fine, what are the benefits of choosing brown over Duke and Cornell?</p>
<p>Also I hear that there is a lot of grade inflation which is good to hear for a pre med, would you say that As are a lot easier than at other schools of equal caliber?</p>
<p>I think Duke has the better pre-med program and med program, but I hear that Brown’s PLME is a different kind of experience not found at the other top-tier pre-med schools.</p>
<p>I would put Cornell below Duke and Brown. Both Duke/ Brown are known for excellent sciences and pre-med, but I’ve never heard anything specific to Cornell for those subjects.</p>
<p>No one can conclude that Cornell is a better premed program than the others, from that statement. For one thing, Cornell has a first year class twice the size of Brown’s and can produce a greater “absolute” number of graduates in any field.</p>
<p>There are five schools with the highest number of premeds getting accepted into med school (I think that is what the OP is asking about): Harvard, Yale, Brown, Stanford and Princeton. Duke frequently comes as a close 6th. BUT Cornell is not one of them.</p>
<p>You can get that information from the specific Health Careers Office at each school. Also take note that all three are GREAT schools. Choose the one where you will thrive…but before that, you need to get accepted to ALL THREE. Don’t get too ahead of yourself.</p>
<p>having been in the pre med forum a lot I have come to figure out that % of pre meds to med school doesn’t mean anything at all because some schools boost their percents by preventing some kids with a low chance from applying.</p>
<p>premed student in general — seeing is believing, visit first, get a feel —</p>
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<li>go to a school which will make you happy 4 years and beyond.</li>
<li>easy to access hospital for doing volunteering, research or ECs.</li>
<li>student help each other a lot (unless u like cut throat competition environment), so you can learn as much as you can, and in the meantime boost your grade.</li>
<li>especially if u are an URM, choose a school with lots of humble students, not snobby.</li>
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<p>Let me preface by saying that I go to Cornell and my boyfriend goes to Brown. We have visited each others’ schools several times. </p>
<p>In my experience, Cornell seems to be a very science-y school. I am a Nutritional Sciences major and I am surrounded my pre-meds in my classes: general chemistry, general biology, etc. There are SO MANY pre-meds here and so many science courses!</p>
<p>Brown, on the other hand, seems to have a large population of its students focusing on the humanities. This is judging by the people I have met and the statistics I have seen on collegeboard.com for major distribution in percentages. </p>
<p>Can’t say anything about Duke, sorry. </p>
<p>I have no doubts that the science programs at each of these schools is great. They are top-ranking schools with a lot of resources.</p>
<p>I think it is VERY VERY VERY important that you consider what life is like at each of these schools. I personally do not like Cornell at all, so I am applying to Brown as a transfer applicant.</p>