<p>Minnezota</p>
<p>You’ve probably not seen a more enthusiastic response to your query given its open ended nature. It would be a lot easier to answer specific issue involving these three schools. But let me offer up these points/suggestions.</p>
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<li><p>There is no such thing as a “renowned pre-med program” unless you do marketing for a college. Places like Wash U and Hopkins are often handed this moniker, but why not, for example, Stanford or Yale or Harvard or Columbia or Duke all of which have comparably “renowned” medical schools + undergrad acceptance rates to med school that are at least the equal of the former? The difference lies in the number/proportion of pre-meds on campus and the - yes - marketing orientation of the school. Personally, I’d much rather be pre-med at a school not known for having pre-meds. Being pre-med is stressful enough without being surrounded by others similarly stressed. </p></li>
<li><p>Studying cog sci/neurosci will be great at any of the three places mentioned. Lots more 1 on 1 with a lab PI (maybe the only “I” in the lab) at Carleton with the possibility of 2nd or possibly even 1st authorships/conference presentations. Lots more 1 on 1 with very strong grad students and post grads at Chicago and Wash U with a lower tier presence on publications/presentations out of a better known lab. Grad schools love rigorous LACs like Carleton and its students place as well as the best of the most prestigious unis.</p></li>
<li><p>If med school is your ultimate goal, you, as an individual, will fare equally well graduating from any other these three schools.</p></li>
<li><p>“I want to go to a name-brand school (however shallow that may seem)” - the clear edge to Chicago if this is an all-consumer contest. But be aware that once you harvest that MD or PhD degree, no one, I mean no one, will care (or likely know) where your BA or BS originated. Its all about the terminal degree.</p></li>
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<p>There are endless things that could be said about location, quality of life, student body, and ice fishing at these three schools. As I mentioned a few paragraphs ago, let fly some more specific questions if you want to stimulate reader’s sensory receptors and provoke a response.</p>