<p>You won’t save a lot of money with University of Miami – it’s a private college, and thus it will cost the same amount of money for you as it would for someone from California or New York. Unless you live close by and can stay off campus.</p>
<p>Where you go to undergrad doesn’t really matter for medical school admissions. What does matter is your grade point average (so select somewhere you can achieve to the fullest and enjoy yourself), your MCAT scores (which have a lot to do with the quality of your pre-med courses, but biology is pretty much the same everywhere), and some limited extra-curriculars like shadowing physicians and doing research in medical or biological/chemical/biochemical labs. You can do any and all of those things at Florida State, University of Florida, or Miami.</p>
<p>Honestly, I think your best value is going to be at those large flagship university – UF and FSU, and also the New College of Florida as someone suggested (which is Florida’s public honors college and is probably good for someone who wants a really liberal, relatively freethinking approach to college and doesn’t mind going to a small school).</p>