<p>I'm having trouble deciding between: University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. (Illinois is the cheapest, Michigan is the most expensive).</p>
<p>I love all three of the schools and I'm definitely going to do premed at one of them. Which school has the "best" pre-med program? and by "best", I mean the school that has the program with the highest medical school placements (such as northwestern having 80% of their pre-med students going to med school, etc.)</p>
<p>It is hard to accurately measure med school placement for public schools because most don’t do the pre-screening of applicants that many private schools do. Obviously if you can select who your applicants are (by denying them committee recommendations) your placement rate should theoretically be higher.</p>
<p>I would be less concerned with med school placement history and more concerned about where you think you’d be happiest and find the best fit. Fit and undergrad happiness are two major contributors to academic success and should not be taken lightly. Many times what happens AFTER classes end can be as important as what happens in class.</p>
<p>IUIC is by far the lowest rated (regarded) of the three with UM the biggest and UNC the smallest of the three. They are three VERY different schools with UNC being the most different of the three due to overall size, location/weather, and campus culture. </p>
<p>One thing I would check is class sizes; UNC for example, caps the size of math and science classes (also English and foreign language) where many other publics do not. </p>
<p>An undergrad degree from UM or UNC will also carry more prestige than one from IUIC and as an OOS student UNC was by far the toughest admit of the three.</p>
<p>Have you visited all three? If not you need to do so because the differences between them are pretty significant.</p>