I was accepted early to Harvard and I got a likely letter from Yale in late January inviting me to YES-W. I want to major in molecular biology. I know people say that asking CCers for advice is wrong, but getting honest answers from students who attend either school is challenging in person due to their desire to recruit. I visited both campuses last year, but I still came away from the tours as a little skeptical of the admissions propaganda. I would appreciate if someone could help give some empirical reasons for a Pre-Med to attend either school.
Thank you,
Starchow
Congratulations starchow. It is nice to have two great choices.
If you are planning to major in molecular biology at either school, it may not be a big deal where you attend for that specific major, at least as a premed. If you were majoring in engineering or CS, my recommendation would have been Harvard.
The reason Yale is inviting people YES-W is because they are perceived as the weaker of the two for STEM. However, from what I have seen, they have a great premed training and one of the strongest research driven training for premeds, so much so that they dominate in the area of number of students who go on to MD/PhD programs.
You should attend YES-W and also attend both admitted days. Meanwhile, you might be getting likelies from Princeton/Columbia/Stanford if you applied there also which will make your decision even more muddled.
You’ll find much better info by posting specific questions on the Harvard and Yale forums. The only advice you’d get from me is that Brown is a better pre-med environment than either 
yep, they let you major in something by taking probably taking just one class in the subject right?
Pre-med can attend ANYWHERE, it does not matter, So, choose the one that you like for other reasons than pre-med, for pre-med it does not matter.
@texaspg we just have to do an interpretive dance actually. Kind of like this: http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2014/11/dance-your-ph-d-winner-announced
I guess the kids have 4 years to practice. 
^For the record I can’t dance.
I’m curious about why you think this is so. I’ve seen no evidence of it.
Didn’t even read texaspg’s post originally so now that plu commented on it I went through my MSTP’s directory and here are the ivy counts for my program:
Brown: 5
Cornell: 4
Columbia: 6
Dartmouth: 0
Harvard: 6
Penn: 2
Princeton: 4
Yale: 2
Have you checked Yale’s published numbers of the number of MSTPs?
I can’t find it 
This is the closest I got: http://ocs.yale.edu/content/first-destination-survey-class-2014-graduate-school
I tried locating what I saw in the past and can’t locate anymore. Essentially what I remember is that about 20-25% of all matriculants for MD went into MD/PhD. I think that is a very high percentage unless there are other schools out there with even higher numbers.