<p>regarding your concerns about PLME and its effects on Brown’s overall premed experience:
in any given class year there are around 55-60 PLME students, out of ~2000 kids in the general population. I don’t have statistics, but from the math you can probably sense that traditional pre-meds outnumber the PLMEs by a lot. while it’s true PLMEs get special program advising, these are separate from the (phenomenal, from what I hear) general advising and pre-professional resources available to the rest of Brown’s pre-med population. a commonly quoted fact is that Brown is almost always in the top 5 for placement into medical schools (along with harvard and princeton and yale and whatnot), so obviously there isn’t much of a detrimental effect here…</p>
<p>I’d also like to second the other poster’s opinion that your description of an ideal school really matches up with Brown’s philosophy and environment! I’d definitely recommend checking them out</p>