<p>I would chose Duke or Penn. The quarter system is a drag, and so that would knock out Dartmouth and Stanford in my book. But you cannot go wrong at any of these schools. </p>
<p>By the way, Duke’s campus is gorgeous, and Chapel Hill, one of America’s great college towns, is only seven short miles down the road. Duke also has a strong emphasis on research (especially biomedical, with one of the nation’s very best medical schools that takes lots of Duke undergrads, if you have an interest in that.</p>