| Mika, I think that you could get a perfectly good CS education at either school, and if it were me I would try to love the school that would allow me to graduate with the least amount of debt.
About the pre-med discussion with your parents - let me offer some positive reasons why you might want to defer that discussion and take the pre-med requirements. I started out in college as a premed but quickly gave up the idea, as I had no sense of vocation for it. I fell in love with Biology and as a Bio major ended up taking every premed requirement (except for the quant. Chem lab, I think). I didn't end up as a biologist, instead I got a job as a programmer/analyst and later went back to school to get an MBA. I have never regretted my science education, however. Those premed courses are a terrific foundation for just about any job. You'll get a basic education in math, physics, chem, and bio. Some of those classes will be required for the CS major anyway, as as for the rest, when you start working it won't be in a vacuum, and since the big growth areas in this country are in health and biotech, it can only be an advantage to you to have some background in chemistry and bio.
Also, even though you love CS right now, you may find when you get to college that your interests and focus change. Don't lock yourself now into any one major; keep your options open. There are so many paths to success, and you never know which one will beckon.
I completely second everyone else's opinion about med school - don't go unless you really, really want to. But it's just not important to have that discussion with your parents yet. |