<p>Pros/Cons
Case is much smaller than UC-Berkeley, UCLA or UCSD, we only have about 3500 undergrads, UCB and UCLA have more around 30-40k I’m not sure off the top of my head I just know they’re huge. Thus the environment is quite different. Our largest classes gen chem, ochem are 200-300, I know from friends at the U of Washington that their respective classes are 800+. Although 200 is still big many of the professors make a large effort to get to know as many students as possible and have very flexible office hours. There’s also the SI program where upperclassmen who excelled in the course as a first/second year student give extra review sessions outside of class. I wanted to go to a smaller school where I wasn’t just a number so I never really considered any large schools. I think that the opportunities to really get to know faculty and pursue undergrad research etc. all things that are helpful when it comes time to apply to medical school can be more easily found in a LAC or smaller research university like Case, Carnegie Mellon, Rochester. It certainly would be possible to major in a humanities/social science area and do a 2nd major or minor in bio/chem/biochem at Case. If I were you I’d try and visit some LAC’s, maybe Pomona - since you could take classes outside of Pomona at the other Claremont schools, and see what environment is the best fit for you.</p>