<p>Thanks chocolatestars, I really appreciate your input. My son is trying to decide between Harvard, Stanford, Yale, MIT, and Caltech-UCSD medscholars. Concerns about Caltech-UCSD is keeping up the necessary GPA and having so much work their is no time for fun. He is very social/athletic and wants to have a fun undergraduate experience. The whole point of the a med scholars program is to relieve stress of getting accepted to med school but will this just be replaced with the stress of being a caltech student?</p>