<p>Brown and Dartmouth are not less rigorous than the other Ivies. If anything because of the undergraduate focus they might require more work. Who cares about grad school ranks, it doesn’t matter. I think some people in CC just don’t get this. Look at any placement study or elite grad school makeup, those two are always close to HYP level. Anyway my point is that any ivy is going to be about the same in this area.</p>
<p>Jamaica- as a pre-med at an Ivy (with lots of friends doing pre-med at other Ivies) it WON’T MATTER. Med school isn’t one of those areas where the grad school has a huge impact. My brother’s friends at Dartmouth all went to top 10 med schools (places like Harvard and Penn) and talking to some of them at his wedding it seemed like the undergrad focus and doing things like a thesis was what interviewers cared the most about (outside of GPA and MCAT). Going to a big research university won’t make a difference.</p>