<p>If you are mostly interested in med school, there are easier, cheaper ways to get there. Just attend your local state university and save $20,000 or more in tuition each year for med school. It is that simple. Chicago will not boost your odds. (You alone control that.)</p>
<p>If you want to learn, have a more exciting intellectual atmosphere and so forth, then you might think about Chicago, but your post tells me you have no idea what you are looking for.</p>
<p>FWIW, Chicago is excellent in the medical sciences. Unlike most universities, the medical school is right on campus (not even “across the street”, Unalove. In the middle. Remember, the campus goes outside the quads.) The main teaching hospital complex is a 5 minute walk from the main library, and even closer to the Crerar, the science library.</p>
<p>This means there are tons of opportunities for students of all kinds, not just pre-meds, to interact with the medical school and its faculty. It is an accessible, valuable resource for everyone, from sociologist to anthropologist to economist as well as to the science types. </p>
<p>But again, you don’t come to Chicago for a great pre-med program. You come to Chicago because you love the core and all the rest of the opportunities it offers.</p>