<p>let’s stay on topic guys. OP is deciding for psychology. he should pick UCSB hands down. does anyone think cal poly psychology is anywhere near as reputable as UCSB’s program?</p>
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The truth is that the school you pick doesn’t matter. To the minor extent adcoms at med school look at your undergraduate institution, these 3 are similar enough that its not going to make a difference. What will make a difference is what you do. Attend office hours so you get to know some profs? Work hard to get good grades? Take part in research? Volunteer or work in a medical setting? Do those things and you’ll be a strong candidate – from any of the schools.</p>
<p>@lawlking</p>
<p>“Schools that offer Doctoral Degree’s are considered upper-division.”</p>
<p>Dude you are not serious right? Have you ever left CA for just a moment?</p>
<p>Would you call the little Ivies lower division? Because they only offer undergraduate and no Phds.</p>
<p>Amherst, Bowdoin, Swarthmore, Colby, Weslyan, Claremont-Mckenna…all undergrad focused. And a million steps above all the UCs and Cal Poly.</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ivies[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ivies</a></p>
<p>So I am not sure where you get undergrad focused non-phd schools are lower division. I think only people that have never stepped outside CA would say that.</p>
<p>Oh, so we’re talking about Private Ivy Leagues now.</p>
<p>Private Ivy leagues</p>
<p>Ivy Leagues</p>
<p>Ivy</p>
<p>Leagues</p>
<p>I thought we were comparing the undergraduate engineering rank–not the overall school ranking. But okay. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure Undergraduate vs Doctoral schools are the same thing (Sarcasm)</p>
<p>But let’s be realistic here; we both are attending PUBLIC universities.
So yes, undergraduate ranking goes like this: Little Ivy (some)> UC (Berkeley, SF, and LA might be higher than some) > CSU
But when you compare Ph.D ranking: UC> Little IVY (For those that don’t have a Ph.D program) + CSU </p>
<p>But let’s be realistic here, we are going off-tangent with this argument. The original argument was SLO vs UCI/SB. The reality is SB/Irvine is better than SLO. But Irvine and SB are NOT the top of the world University, there are schools that are way BETTER than Irvine and SB.</p>
<p>I would also like to add: </p>
<p>None the less, SLO is still a great school.</p>
<p>we’ll just agree to disagree.</p>
<p>The little Ivies have no need for phds because they are feeders into the Ivies phd programs.</p>
<p>All UCs and Cal Poly are not in that position of being a feeder school.</p>
<p>mikemac hit the nail on the head. At this level, it doesn’t matter which of these schools you attend for your undergrad work. They all will be equally fine for teaching you what you need to learn and it will be up to you as the student to make the difference on how well educated you become. </p>
<p>Get good grades by learning the material you’ll be taught, not memorizing it. Become friends with your professors so they can recommend you later on, and have some fun wherever you go to college.</p>
<p>My daughter will be going to UCSB in the fall. She chose SB over Berkeley, and I would have chose UCSB too (if I had to make the choice for me).</p>
<p>medical schools do not care where you did your undergraduate degree as long as it is an accredited four year college or university. The two things that determine whether you will be admitted to medical school are your UG GPA at wherever you go and your MCAT scores. Medical schools reportedly do not like seeing medical school prerequisites taken at community colleges but neither the prestige of your UG school nor the rigor of your UG major are considered during the admissions process.</p>
<p>hey @calimali, what were your stats when you were accepted for Psychology at CP and Sociology at Irvine and SB?</p>