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Your question depends on the med school. Harvard Med takes a lot of Harvard students, so if you don't go to Harvard, you have a less likely chance of getting in. At MIT, pre-med is not really a program, it's a set of classes. You can major in Mathematics and be pre-med, as long as you take those classes. I don't know about Princeton inflating grades, but if you know they do it, all the med schools do too, so then your GPA won't look so special. Also, you have to do well on your MCAT and it helps to have some research in your background. Your GPA is just part of the whole med school app.
Bottom line, the Ivy's have great pre-med programs, but I wouldn't go to MIT unless I wanted to do an MD/Ph.D. program or I wanted to be an engineer and go to med school because there is so much math and science that goes above and beyond what typical pre-med programs do.
I'm not the first one to say this but it doesn't matter where you go for you undergrad. Your Undergrad school has very little effect on ADCOM's decisions. Go where you'll be the happiest.
The list of schools that are best for Pre-Med is practically identical to the list of schools that are best. Look at the rankings at US News. Anything in the top 25 would be a great school for pre-med.
Whoever said that about princeton doesn't know what he is talking about.
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