I’m considering Duke, Northwestern, and Emory as potential undergrads that I would like to attend. All three are amazing schools, but which school would best prepare me for/get me into med school? What is the grading like at each of these schools(how difficult is it to get a high gpa comparatively at each of these schools?)
None of them will get you in.
All of them will equally prepare you med school along with 300+ other colleges and universities in the US.
Are you among the top 25% of their applicants? Top 10%?
As something like 75% who start premed change their minds and of those that actually apply 60% fail to gain even one acceptance anywhere, premed is hard at every school. Most colleges will offer one the resources and opportunities one needs to develop a competitive med school app. Whether one does so is much more related to one’s efforts during one’s college years, much less on the name of the school one attends. Who one’s professors are could be an important factor as well in determining one’s success in premed classes, an unknown while applying for college. With Emory, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt, one will probably sitting in LD premed science classes of say 250+ very, very bright students with maybe 15-20% getting As, the majority getting less, probably Cs… As a premed there’s some logic to intead of competing against Olympic caliber students, one might have more success as a premed against say Divison 2 (aka tier 2) students.
In another thread you indicate your D is a senior deciding to apply ED to Yale, Duke, or Emory
At Yale and Duke, I suspect the competition for As will be much worse.
(http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/)
Also in both threads you raised issue of research opportunities. Research as an EC is not a highly valued EC for med schools.
My bad I am responding to post I read in premed section and mistakenly posted in college serach section
You will be best served by focusing on which school will help you succeed at Undergrad. Applying for med school is further down the road.