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There is a reason why WashU attracts a lot of pre-meds aiming for top med schools: for medical school placement rates, undergraduate research opportunities, and respect in the medical profession, few schools rival WashU. Graduate adcoms and medical colleagues will not care about any wait-list conspiracy theories that have been tossed around by a few uninformed CCers.</p>
<p>WashU and NU are phenomenal schools, but for pre-med, I would choose WashU (for the aforementioned reasons).</p>