Here is how to choose the right schools for ya....
1) Wait PATIENTLY....until you get the financial aids from all the schools back. Choose the school that throws the most money at you!!!!!
2) Where ever your family, wife/husband, g/b-friends are......
3) big city, if you like people and, well, people (or rural area, if you like trees and no traffic).....
4) If it is a top 10 med school, maybe that can sway your decision a little... However, it does not matter if the school is ranked 23 v.s. ranked 48......
5) If it is between 150 students/class v.s. 100 students/class, choose the one with a bigger class. 150 and 100 are both pretty small numbers. Either way, both environments will be highschoolish with lots of gossip. But with 150 people per class, you will have 50% more chance meeting the "right" type of people whom you will fit in with and be your life-long friends, than if you have 100 people per class.
5) throw a coin!
Often times, pre-meds make the decision too hard for themselves. The truth is that you cannot get an accurate sense of what the curriculum is and how nice the people are from ONE SINGLE day of interviewing! Maybe you have a good time visiting a school but once you decide to attend there, you cannot predict 2 years down the road, you will get some jack-a$$ residents on both of your medicine and pediatric rotations and ruin your whole 3-year rotation! Or during 2nd year, your partner for pathohistology will be a supreme gunner and make everyone around him super-stressed out! The fact is that med students are goal oriented, and you will INVARIABLY get stressed out by your classmates at one time or another. Despite what med schools LIKE you to believe, there are gunners everywhere (more so at top 10 med schools than others). Some don't like to use the word, gunner, and prefer to call them, extremely goal-oriented. Whatever.... Just use the above criteria and try not to make the decision too hard. Remember, if you really cannot decide, just take the $$$ and run