<p>If I go to UC Santa Barbara for undergrad, what is the acceptance rate to medical schools? I'm hoping to attend UCLA Med or USC Med. Would a undergrad from UCSB affect my chances? If you are a pre med at UCSB, did you get into a good med school? THANKS!</p>
<p>The stats don’t exist. UC does not have the money to collect them in a statistically-valid fashion.</p>
<p>But yes, if you attend any UC and earn a bunch of A’s, and good mcat score, you have a good shot at med school.</p>
<p>You can use the link [MDapplicants.com</a> - Home](<a href=“http://www.mdapplicants.com%5DMDapplicants.com”>http://www.mdapplicants.com) to find out roughly how UCSB undergrad premed students are performing in their med school admission.</p>
<p>After opening the link, type UCSB or UC santa barbara in the search box, then choose school profile find out the statistics.</p>
<p>Very likely no CCer here has any experience with going to UCSB with the goal of getting into UCLA or USC. You would be extremely lucky if there is a CCer who happen to have this specific experience and share his/her experience with you.</p>
<p>What bluebayou posted is quite to the point in general. Another parent (emptyMT) expressed a similar point. I quoted his/her post below fyi:</p>
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<p>However, I notice a “trend” though: When a parent happens to have the financial resources (e.g., one of the parents is a physician), (s)he tends to send his/her kid to a college that is more costly than a state university where the students may need to “work hard” in order to get into a required premed class. (It is like a wealthy family rarely dines at a cheap restaurant where the customers need to wait in a long line before being seated. LOL.) When the parents or even grandparents are even more upper class, their kids may be in one of these costly colleges but are less inclined to go into medicine career (majoring in, say, art history.) but they still have a lucrative career after graduation no matter what their majors may be.</p>
<p>Any such stats would be utterly useless - acceptance rates to med school (esp from a place like UCSD) depend entirely on the students applying that year, which the school has no control over. Don’t pick a school based on stats like that. And definitely don’t choose one based on where you think you want to go or can get in - med school admissions is such a crapshoot, you can’t count on anything.</p>
<p>If I got to UCSB and then apply to medical school, I would be a California applicant right? So would it increase my chances in getting into California Medical Schools like UCLA or USC?</p>
<p>You would only be a California applicant if your legal residence was in California. Going to college in California does not automatically do this.</p>
<p>And so long as you’re a student your legal state of residence is that of your parents.</p>
<p>unless you and your parents declared you financially independent of them, right?</p>
<p>It’s not clear even then. Most states specifically exclude individuals whose “primary purpose” for living there is education from being considered residents. Even if they are financially independent.</p>
<p>Most states requires some period of time (typically 12 or more months) of living in that state while NOT attending school to qualify for residency. There are also other hoops to jump thru–like demonstrating they aren’t listed as dependent on someone else’s incomes tax, that they have sufficient income to support themselves without accepting any gifts, cash or payments in kind from other individuals [including being kept on their parent’s health insurance policy], that they have held in-state employment for a period of time (usually a minimum of 12 months), that they have paid state income taxes if applicable and filled state taxes at least once as an independent, that they hold both driver’s and voting registration in the state, that they have insurance policies in that state, that they have a valid in-state address (usually backed up by a signed lease, utility bills or mortgage)… the details vary by state, but each state requires some sort of proof. And some are pickier than others.</p>
<p>^ yep varies state by state - some (Ohio) let you become a state resident after 12 months even if you move there only to go to school - others, not so much…</p>
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<p>USC is a private college, so state residence does not matter. If you want to increases your chances at UCLA Med, go to UCLA undergrad. But note that UCLA is a nationally-ranked, top 10 med school, and has admission numbers to match. </p>
<p>California is relatively easy in which to obtain state residency for grad school – after your first year of Grad school.</p>
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<p>Uh, no. Self-reported data = GIGO. </p>
<p>And more importantly, the site only has “data” on 14 applicants from Santa Barbara over the past 10 years.</p>
<p>That’s good to know that state residency for private colleges doesn’t matter. (:</p>
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<p>When the 'rents have a family business or industry – connections on The Street? – in which to graduate, it makes it really easy. :)</p>
<p>Are there other sites that report the data of applicants from UCSB to med school?</p>
<p>I clearly said that the data does not exist. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>btw: you really should consider staying home and attending your instate college to save money. UC’s are mighty expensive for OOS.</p>
<p>Oh! Haha, sorry. (:</p>
<p>No one really knows what the numbers mean for each undergraduate institution’s success in getting their students into medical school. Some schools weed out their pre meds, others let anyone apply. State of residency can play a huge role in difficulty of medical school admission so that an identical student from California may have a different chance than if that student were a resident of a state like Texas. Some students do well in a large anonymous Universities and some students will do better in a small LAC. Some will do well in either or neither. Medical schools in general draw most of their student’s from the top Universities in their state or local area. In general the best way to look at this would be to look at your state of residence and decide what schools dominate the in state medical schools. The undergraduate school you attend should be competitive or better than those schools. UCSB is a very good school and a decent GPA and MCAT score
will put you in the running for admission to most medical schools.<br>
You should also remember that most students going to University with an intention of applying to medical school do not end up applying. Students change their mind, find something else more interesting or get weeded out. In California less than 50% of those who are left will be successful in medical school admission. I would attend the “best” school that “fits” you with the idea of educating yourself and obtaining an undergraduate degree with a reasonable cost. UCLA’s medical school by the way does not take state residency into account in their admissions.</p>
<p>“UCLA’s medical school by the way does not take state residency into account in their admissions.”</p>
<p>Really???</p>