Brown v. Duke v. Princeton (Pre-med)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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Torn between these three schools. Princeton seems the clear first choice to my family and friends just because of reputation and prestige, but I don’t want to overlook the other two. I want to do Pre-med and eventually get an MD/MPH.

Obviously Princeton is amazing at everything and they tout their 95% med school acceptance rate, but I also hear iffy things about them for pre-med (lots of competition, no hospital, weeding out, etc.), and it appears to be the opposite situation at Brown.

Any reason I should be choosing Brown over Princeton (or Duke)? Would I lose something by overlooking Princeton?

Thanks in advance, gonna post this in the other two forums as well.

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Just a heads up, you can’t really rely on the Med School acceptance rates that schools tout. They have long weeded out everyone else except for the cream of the crop, who ends up applying, and those are who they are touting these values for. It is very skewed and not reliable.

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http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/1284648-brown-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-pre-med-p1.html
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1484178-if-you-are-in-high-school-please-read-this-before-posting-p1.html

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If you are serious about med school you would be better picking Brown, imo. If you might easily do something else you might pick Princeton.