Any of your choices will offer you the opportunities you need to build a strong med school application.
My recommendation is to take pre-med out of your considerations.
(Only about 16% of freshmen pre-meds actually finish all the med school pre-reqs and apply to med school. Most fall off the pre-med path not because they can’t compete academically, but because they find other interests and passions along the way or decide that they don’t want to postpone starting their adult life for 11-20 years when they finally finish their training. Of those 16% that persist and apply to med school, fewer than 40% actually get an acceptance. )
So choose the school that offers the best combination of fit, opportunity and cost.
- Fit because happier students do better academically. Also college is 4 years of your life that you will never get back; you might as well enjoy it.
- Opportunity to explore new ideas and new interests–even if they lead you away from medicine. Opportunity to get involved in campus activities. (Med schools are looking for interesting, engaged individuals, not academic automatons.) Opportunity to interact with and form mentoring relationships with professors who will provide career guidance and write those important LORs for med or grad school.
- Cost because med school is hideously expensive and you’ll want minimize undergrad debt. Tuition alone is over $100K/year currently at some schools. The average cost of a year of med school is $60K with the costs going up annually. The average med students graduates with $350,000 in loans.
If it makes you feel any better one my daughters attended a state university that is much lower ranked than Rutgers ; my other daughter attended one of the schools on your list that is not Rutgers. Both had multiple med school acceptances and are now physicians in their first choice of specialty. I didn’t see any major appreciable difference in the quality or type of their undergrad experiences.
Med school adcomms really, really do not care where an applicant attends undergrad. They are much more interested in what you have achieved and what you have accomplished during your college career.