<p>Go to Miami or UNC. What school you went to for premed doesn’t matter nearly as much for other majors. It still matters, but not a ton. GPA and MCAT matter much more, unless you’re trying to get into one of the top five med schools. If that’s the case, I’d go to NU or UChicago.</p>
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<p>Listen to eadad, ctyankee, and wis75: Talk to your folks NOW about paying for med school. </p>
<p>Also know that med schools do not accept colleges. They accept well-prepared individual human beings with a strong potential for being a good physician. If you graduate at the bottom of your class, no med school will care whether you went to Chicago or UNC. But if you are at the top of your class at Miami, if you have good MCAT scores, and if you have fantastic academic recommendations, you can still go to med school. </p>
<p>Your future depends on YOU, not the name printed on a piece of vellum.</p>
<p>all the mentioned schools would prepare you well for med school. The tuition savings for an undergraduate education is also very attractive unless your parents will also pay for medical school. It also depends what you plan to do with your medical degree. If your primay interest is clinical medicine, where you go to medical school is not that important. If your interest is in academic medicine or research then your undergraduate pedigree would be more important and therefore getting into a “top” med school would be important and hence your undergraduate degree would also be important. I would opt for the least stressful, most enjoyable school and not worry so much about reputation.</p>
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<p>Suitcase schools? Neither of these schools are anything even remotedly resembling suitcase schools. I can’t even believe someone hypothesized this! </p>
<p>As for weather. No one seems to worry about “how cold it is in Cambridge or New Haven” when it comes to looking at Harvard or Yale – I don’t get why people seem to think Chicago is any different from New England. Any Californian will have an adjustment period.</p>