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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Choose Hopkins. Has the med school about 20min away, has smaller classes, much less competition for getting research spots and getting to know professors.

Plus CALS at Cornell is considered by others at cornell as the public school, easier to get into, looked down on. 
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Um, no.  I mean I guess if you are the kind of person who likes looking down on others, maybe you seize on the excuse that it's marginally easier to get into the Ag school than A&S and engineering to feel superior, but none of the A&S students/grads in my family ever felt that way.  CALS offers lots of majors not offered elsewhere in the University (or at many other elite schools for that matter).  Someone interested in being a vet or the very many students from farming families there are of course going to choose CALS.  And for those with overlap (like pre-med), why would anyone from NYS want to pay tens of thousands of extra dollars to attend A&S over CALS?

But to weigh in on OP's question: the schools are so, so different and predicting a student's academic success (let alone whether they even will stay pre-med) so, so hard that it really doesn't seem like grade inflation or not should be remotely near the top of one's determining factors.[/quote]

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