<p>A few comments:</p>
<p>1) Medical schools do not care, for the most part, where you do your undergrad. You do not get a lot of credit for going to Johns Hopkins vs. a respectable regional school - and at JHU, you may surrounded by many pre-meds with sharp elbows. Med schools care a lot about your GPA, your MCAT and, for in-state options, your state of residence. So any schools with decent sciences (preferably one where you can get to know the faculty for those letters of rec), will meet your need.</p>
<p>2) Medical school is very expensive. Your cheapest in-state option usually costs around $160,000. Privates can easily cost $300,000. You don’t want to pile on a lot of undergraduate debt, and then spend the next 20 years paying all that debt off. </p>
<p>3) In S’s experience, if 100 kids show up for the info session on applying to med school in freshman year, only 20 actually end up applying. That means you need to pick a school where, if you don’t end up being pre-med, you will still be happy with your options.</p>
<p>4) Your SAT score is low for many schools that would offer a lot of merit aid. Also, most of those schools will be less selective schools, where your grades and test scores put you in the top 20% of the class. Consider the less well known midwestern and southern LACs where being Asian makes you a URM and which offer generous aid.</p>