I’m sure all big flagships have the tutoring and career center, etc.
Tucson is a big city. Alabama, don’t know about the shadowing opportunities. There’s a DCH Hospital right next to school though. Look into the Mccullough Medical Scholars at Alabama. Link below.
As far as collaborative or not, engineering is. So I assume other areas are. Most of these large flagships that are not elite are not going to be cut throat - but pre -med anywhere is going to be hard.
My daughter’s friend at her public non elite got into Rice, Penn and Vanderbilt - and had to withdraw from Organic Chemistry. He’s taking it again now…so that’s going to be tough anywhere, etc.
Best of luck.
PS - with a 3.9 unweighted (not 3.89…literally a 3.9, you get $30K off at Arizona - so with room and board it will be $25K -ish. That’s auto merit.
At Alabama (using your test score too), you’d get $24K off auto merit with a chance to go up to $28K. But at $24K off, you’re about $8K tuition - so low 20s.
Even cheaper would be UAH or UAB - and UAB has a medical school so you might look at opportunities there.
Best of luck.
McCollough Scholars – Pre-Medical Studies at the University of Alabama (ua.edu)