@bopper
Thanks for your comments and I agree. I am currently a senior with the fortune to have been accepted early/LL to CWRU (also a PPSP finalist - interviewed last week, now waiting for final decision but did receive a scholarship for UG), Duke, Brown, Columbia, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Emory, UVA and other safety UF, GT, USF. Waiting on other Ivys. All these options will provide a high quality education thus financial aid will definitely help drive final selection.
Still I want to also start narrowing down the various premed paths in terms of environment (cut throat, workload intensity, efc, GPA inflation/deflation, etc) and appreciate any comments from those more experienced.