<p>All three are terrific choices, but for pre-med I would go with WUSTL because of its top 5 med school (unlike UC) and numerous research opportunities (unlike Carleton). Also, WUSTL premed is very prestigious among med schools and at least equal to UC and Carleton in that regard. Plus, while I love the core at UC, I think it could be an impediment to pursuing a pre-med curriculum. </p>
<p>One thing to look at is how many pre-meds apply to med school from a university/college (only a fair comparison between UC and WUSTL because Carleton is so much smaller).
Each year over 300 students from WUSTL apply to med school (and in some years this number has been over 350). In comparison, UC is usually in the 150 range and almost never above 200. </p>
<p>Last year the figures were WUSTL 310 applicants v. UC 148 applicants. See links below from the AMA. That twice as many kids from WUSTL apply to med school as from UC gives at least some indication of the amount of resources a school spends on pre-meds and the likelihood that a student who starts pre med will finish the program. While not a perfect barometer, the AMA keeps tabs on this figure and there are no games with it unlike with the notoriously unreliable med school “acceptance rates”. </p>
<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/321446/data/2012factstable2-1.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/321446/data/2012factstable2-1.pdf</a> (figures for both WUSTL and UC here)</p>