<p>brownjigga, rice is 3.2 sci, 3.0 major. plus, R/B can be compressed into 7 years, they just don't encourage it that much. but it still is a possibility.</p>
<p>mistaippa, ACTUALLY, johns hopkins had the first program, which they cancelled 8 years later. Penn State/ Jefferson started their program (which was 5 years at the time) a year after johns hopkins began, and its still be goin. so PSU is the longest running program right now.</p>
<p>in general, i think that HPME is a more well- known program just because its been around longer. but it all comes down to personal issues (i.e. weather, length, social life) that really makes the big difference. but personally, rice/baylor just because baylor's a good med school with Texas Medical Center, and rice is a pretty tight place, academically and socially, to be undergrad.</p>