Hi, I’m Asian who wants to go to medical school in United States. I currently hold green card and I will have US citizenship soon. I applied to Biology major for all three schools and I’m going to study premed.
All 3 schools are match to me academically(SAT,GPA,etc.).
If I get accepted to all 3, which school should I go to?
I think NYU is a great school and it has great popularity but I don’t think New York City is good place for study.(too much distractions)
I like Brandeis because I heard they have good premed program and high acceptance rate to medical schools but it has the lowest ranking of all.
How would you rank these schools by quality of education?
All three offer strong educations in biological sciences. I’d put Brandeis ahead of BC, but your mileage may vary. It doesn’t really matter where you go as long as you’re not piling up a lot of debt. Med school will be enormously expensive. So let the finances play a role according to how deep your family’s pockets are.
NYU is a very urban campus. Both Brandeis and BC are in suburbs of Boston. This year Boston is getting pounded with snowfall, but neither city is a fun place to be when it snows and blows. NYC offers enormous cultural experiences. Boston does the same, but you have to move around to get to them. Public transit is good in both cities, with the edge to NYU.
@jkeil911 How would you compare education quality between NYU and Brandeis?(I know NYU has better business but what about arts and sciences?)
I’m a Brandeis alum, so I’ll let someone else handle that one, OP.
Brandeis has a decent program if you’re Jewish. BC is also religiously affiliated, albeit it is more secular than Brandeis (comparable to Georgetown).
As for programs, BC has more prestige than NYU or Brandeis, but it is probably more expensive as well. You should consider how much you can afford to pay. Try to keep your debt low if you plan on going to grad school.
Brandeis’ student population is about 50% people who identify as Jews and %50 people who don’t. so it’s not just a “decent program if you’re Jewish.” It’s a very good school no matter where you hail from. And there is little religious faith present at Brandeis–and certainly not a privileging of American Jewry. To say that BC is more secular than Brandeis is laughable, and Brandeis is certainly more liberal than BC. BC is negligibly more expensive than Brandeis, and NYU is 3K more than BC.
They are comparable Universities academically. You should find out how much research each has for undergraduates. that makes a small difference. You should visit all three and choose the one you like the most.
^I agree, to me BC identifies itself as Catholic (crucifixes, for example), whereas Brandeis is a secular university created to provide an equal education for Jewish students back when they were not accepted into the Ivy league, but since this has changed for the past 45 years, that aspect of Brandeis has been diluted (in the same way neither Harvard nor Yale are bastions of Protestant privilege today).
Brandeis students tend to be more serious, BC students tend to be rowdier, so you may like one better depending on your personality.
Academically, all three are equivalent (they’re in the same " ranking grouping").
Not everyone agrees with you, including the student body at Brandeis:
http://www.thejustice.org/article/2006/04/matt-brown-brandeis-too-jewish-for-its-own-good
1 reference point does not make a solid case for your opinion.
Good try though, I bet you had to look 
That article is almost nine years old. Don’t you think a lot can change in a decade?
The “jewishness” at Brandeis is nowhere near as overt as the Catholicism at BC.
BC is more conservative and has strong Catholic profile.
Boston College and Georgetown are both formally religiously AFFILIATED with the Catholic church. They are Catholic institutions. You even have to take a theology course if you go there. Brandeis is not and has NEVER been affiliated with any Jewish sect. It is nonsectarian and fully secular. You never have to take any religious courses if you go to Brandeis.
Brandeis was founded by people who happened to be Jewish, and named after a famous Jew, at a time Jews were kept out of many top schools due to quotas… just to be a welcoming place for everyone regardless of faith. It is still a welcoming place. The Catholic, Protestant and Jewish spaces on campus are designed so that the shadow of one never crosses the other. Brandeis is not about one religion; it is about equity for all.
There are indeed many Jewish students on campus. Remember, though, that being Jewish can be defined as an ethnic identity and not a religion, depending on the person. Saying there are Jews at Brandeis is like saying that a school has many Italians or many Scottish people… because many ethnic Jews are fully secular and often even atheists, although some are religious.
If a person is anti-Semitic, by all means they should avoid Brandeis! If you are Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish or atheist-- you will be equally comfortable at this completely secular, nonreligious school.
And I have no horse in this race. I did not go to Brandeis and know no one personally who did. I just felt it was important to correct the inaccurate information posted earlier in this thread.
I agree Brandeis isn’t a “overly Jewish” school. 17 other religions are represented on campus. There are few schools that are entirely composed of one religion.
TO bring it back to the original question:
I can’t imagine that the choice between any of these three colleges will really affect your chances of getting into medical school. They’re all excellent universities with good pre-med programs and are well-regarded. Any ranking differences between them are negligible. (Seriously, they are all ranked in the low 30s on USNWR, which is a meaningless difference at that point.)
So you should choose based on what you like the best. Where do you want to go? NYU is, as someone else pointed out, an urban university - there’s no real “campus”; it’s a collection of buildings scattered throughout lower Manhattan. Some students really crave that experience and others don’t. Brandeis and BC both have more traditional campuses, but very different student life vibes. They’re also completely different sizes: Brandeis has just over 3500 undergrads; BC has just over 9,000, and NYU has just under 25,000.
This post is from almost a year ago. I think we can safety assume that the OP has chosen a college by now.