First, you need to understand that premed is not usually a major at most colleges and very few colleges have what is known as a premed program. I know the college I went to, there were several students who majored in biology, and they considered themselves premed, yet officially there was no major called premed.

It's best not to look at prestige or competitiveness as being better. Of course you can apply to Harvard, yet do realize that there are many students applying to this school. If you're not in the top of your class, don't have excellent board scores, or a track record of community service or extracurriculars, it's very hard to near impossible to gain admission into some of the most competitive universities.

For mentoring purposes, it's recommended you try out a website called GottaMentor www.gottamentor.com and talk to some of the mentors there about premed school, or med school.

If you would like to talk to other high school students applying to college, there are sites like College Confidential www.collegeconfidential.com where you can discuss this with other students. You may even want to talk to a college counselor there about applying to colleges geared towards premed.

When looking at colleges and universities, visit sites like www.stuvu.com, www.theu.com, www.collegeclicktv.com, and hear it from other students. I believe it's important to consider a school that you like the community, the campus, and the school in general than "the program" it offers, as college is mostly what you make of it.

Other sites you may want to check out in your college search:
www.campusexplorer.com/careers

College Carrot www.collegecarrot.com where you can ask admission questions like this one.

College Know it All www.collegeknowitall.com has ratings submitted by real students.

College Prowler www.collegeprowler.com offers a guide that explains all the colleges from the student point of view, and lets students rate.

Unigo www.unigo.com is network of college students who speak out about their colleges.

Zinch www.zinch.com/static/zinch-tour.html allows you to sign up and create a profile of yourself for colleges and universities. This might help you with the college admissions process, and you can share with colleges about yourself, so that you can be discovered by them! Let them find you!

So, for your answer, your research is not about what TOP universities offer premed/medical, it's about finding the school for you, the school that you like.

If I were to give you a list of TOP TEN schools, it would be heavily debated. Look at schools that have strong biology programs, which are many!

Here is a list of schools with TOP biology programs:

http://biology.about.com/od/biologyprograms/a/aa091605a.htm

Do you want a school on the East Coast? If so, here are some of your best programs.

Boston University, Boston, Ma www.bu.edu

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island www.brown.edu

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA www.cmu.edu

Columbia University, New York, NY www.columbia.edu

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY www.cornell.edu

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH www.dartmouth.edu

Duke University, Durham, NC www.duke.edu

Emory University, Atlanta, GA www.emory.edu

Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma www.harvard.edu

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD www.jhu.edu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA www.mit.edu

Penn State University, University Park, PA www.psu.edu

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ www.princeton.edu

Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ www.rutgers.edu

State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY www.albany.edu

State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY www.buffalo.edu

State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY www.stonybrook.edu

Tufts University, Medford, MA www.tufts.edu

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT www.uconn.edu

University of Maryland, College Park, MD www.umd.edu

University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA www.umass.edu

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC www.unc.edu

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA www.upenn.edu

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA www.virginia.edu

Yale University, New Haven, CT www.yale.edu
Source(s):
http://biology.about.com/od/biologyprograms/a/aa091605a.htm

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For medical school, have you looked at UNMC,University of Nebraska Medical Center? It is a great medical school, it just doesn't have the name recondition of Harvard. As for pre-Med, most biology programs are a good start. I would say have good grades and being involved in student and community activities are more important than what school you go to for pre-med. Also, a lot of schools are looking for non tradition med students. You don't have to have a biology degree to get into med-school. My wife is an occupational therapist and last semester decide she wanted to go to med-school. She found a program at our local university that offered all the prereqs she needed to get into UNMC, it was a scholarship program and she didn't have to pay for the classes.
Source(s):
UNMC: http://www.unmc.edu/
Non-Traditional Program: http://www.unk.edu/uploadedFiles/academics/health_prog/Kearney%20Health%20O...

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