<p>I was wondering if it is easier to get accepted to a medical school if you completed your undergraduate degree at the same school.
For example, does UCLA School of Medicine accept more students from UCLA?
I want to attend UCB for undergrad, but I am worried that it will be harder for me to get into a medical school since UCB doesn't have its own.
Should I attend UCLA instead, because that will increase my chances of getting into UCLA School of Medicine?</p>
<p>If, after careful research, you want to go UCB , go to UCB. Won’t make diddly difference.</p>
<p>In general, I agree with what curmudgeon said. As almost a happenstance, in many medical schools their undergrad programs form the single largest (still statistically insignificant) segment of the student body.</p>
<p>California is just an odd bird. But to go a school you don’t like as much just to get a piddly bit higher shot at one med school? Nope.</p>
<p>I don’t know the stats, but someone posted them awhile back. Going to UCLA wasn’t a nudge.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how it all works, but I’m thinking that the state SOMs aren’t really supposed to give nudges to their own undergrads because the locations of the SOMs are determined by the state. It’s not Cal’s fault that it doesn’t have a SOM, so its students aren’t supposed to be penalized for that.</p>
<p>The expectation does not seem to work for public schools. Private schools do show a preference for their own graduates.</p>
<p>California is tough. Someone told me about an UCLA grad with 4.0 and 41 getting into top 10 privates outside of California but not any publics in Cal.</p>
<p>Applying to CA medical schools as a CA resident is capricious at best, which is why all CA applicants are strongly advised to apply broadly when applying to med school.</p>
<p>The expectation does not seem to work for public schools. Private schools do show a preference for their own graduates.</p>
<p>This goes with what I was thinking. Since the state decides which of their state schools will have the med schools, there would seem to be a written/unwritten rule that preferential treatment for their own undergrads would be a “no no”, because it would end up causing those publics to become too loaded with premeds, and could be perceived as being a hindrence to lower income students who must commute to their local public.</p>