<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Can anyone please compare these schools academically, socially, prestige wise .... interested in biology and want to eventually go to med school.... like small to mid sized universities... like to study but also have a good time with friends... which one would be the best choice?</p>
<p>bump please help</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna, as I’m sure you know, has a very small contingent of science majors. Pre-law/pre-business types studying government, economics, and business dominate the small campus. The science program is significantly weaker than that found at Carleton and Emory though adequate for pre-med preparation. Claremont and Emory probably have a fair overlap in student personalities. Carleton will have a much more individualistic student body, very measurably different.</p>
<p>Where would you have a good time? Whichever one of these school’s personalities best suits you.</p>
<p>Carleton is the most selective out of those three schools, but probably not the most well known. Carleton has a fairly quirky student body. Claremont is known to have lots of kids that major in economics and political science, and most of them go on to grad school. Emory is a fairly large, diverse school. I would go with fit.</p>
<p>Carleton’s science programs, for a liberal arts college, are among the strongest in the entire country; CMC, meanwhile, is known for being strong in government/political science/subjects of that nature. Just putting that out there…</p>
<p>IMHO, I think Carleton would be the best choice, unless you were really in love with one of the others.</p>
<p>Emory has by far the most resources for a premed. On campus you have the Emory medical center, the Emory school of public health, the American Cancer Society, and even the Centers for Disease Control. </p>
<p>It’s a very nice size. With 5200 undergrads, Emory is large enough to offer unique classes like Akkadian and primate behavior but small enough to ensure close interaction between students and professors.</p>
<p>My son’s roommate was pre-med at CMC and had no trouble at all getting into the med school of his choice. All the students I’ve known in the Joint Sciences programs (and there are plenty from CMC - it’s not true that they’re all gov or econ majors) have had only good things to say about it.</p>