My point is data show grade inflation works and Brown is the poster U for grade inflation. This holds true even when the grad school ADCOM knows a schools reputation. A below average student at Brown with a 3.62 GPA just sounds better than an above average student from Duke or Princeton with a 3.48 GPA. The worst situation for a pre-med student is to attend a grade deflation university and major in a grade deflation area of study. Again, a sociology or communications major with a 3.8 GPA just sounds better than a BME student with a 3.3. It’s not fair but it is reality for pre-meds. Pre-meds didn’t set the “GPA game”, they hate it, but they have to play it.
It is easier to achieve the GPA needed to be accepted to med school at Brown with little risk of getting “weeded out”. As for quality of education I would go with Duke and Princeton but the most important thing a pre-med program needs to do is help you get into med school.