<p>Does anyone have information about the interview format and what they are looking for during the interview? </p>
<p>I understand the interviews are not any different from UCSD BS-UCSD MD program interviews.</p>
<p>Feedback is greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>has anyone completed interview for 2012?</p>
<p>i know there are interviews being conducted this friday…any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!</p>
<p>I’ll just post this info here once, hopefully people can find it. Some of this may have changed, but it’s roughly correct for 2012.</p>
<p>Admission into the UCSD Med Scholars program is offered to anyone with a SAT of 2250 and ACT of 34 and above. (I think your WGPA has to be above 4.0 too.) You can check their standards online at the UCSD website.</p>
<p>This is offered to about 1200 students.</p>
<p>Only about 300 reply and try for it. Almost all of these are Regents Scholars, which is almost as important a program at UCSD to be admitted to as the Med Scholars. Some are NOT Regents Scholars, though, and this can be a problem later for them.</p>
<p>The School of Medicine looks over the high school records of the 300 and interview 1 out of 10; about 30. They are looking for medical experience and just the very top grades in high school sciences. Some of these kids have really extensive resumes in biology already, working directly with a doctor who can write an honest recommendation is important.</p>
<p>They choose 50% of these; about 15. Some of these kids believe it or not decide to NOT do Med Scholars at the last moment. This is extremely unwise, shall we say. UCSD is rarely the students’ first choice and they have set their heart on Rice or Columbia, UCLA, Berkeley etc. and have already been admitted there. It’s actually hard for them to convince these students to go to UCSD, which is astounding considering their new $70 mil teaching facility.</p>
<p>Out of the 15, only 12 are admitted because 3 usually say no! 6 boys, 6 girls. It’s not a 12 out of 1200 chance, it’s 6 out of 1200.</p>
<p>So with the interview you are basically in if you;</p>
<ol>
<li>Have medical experience.</li>
<li>Really want to go to UCSD, know something about it and fit in well.</li>
<li>Have a personality. Smiling doesn’t count. Everybody smiles. Telling a joke helps, having a hobby that your parents didn’t tell you to pursue is good. They aren’t just looking for enthusiastic robots, they want people who are genuinely interesting.</li>
<li>This is basically a medical school interview. All the Med School rules apply.</li>
</ol>
<p>Anyway, good luck, UCSD’s program is the best and probably the most underrated educational experience in the nation.</p>
<p>I’ll just post this info here once, hopefully people can find it. Some of this may have changed, but it’s roughly correct for 2012.</p>
<p>Admission into the UCSD Med Scholars program is offered to anyone with a SAT of 2250 and ACT of 34 and above. (I think your WGPA has to be above 4.0 too.) You can check their standards online at the UCSD website.</p>
<p>This is offered to about 1200 students.</p>
<p>Only about 300 reply and try for it. Almost all of these are Regents Scholars, which is almost as important a program at UCSD to be admitted to as the Med Scholars. Some are NOT Regents Scholars, though, and this can be a problem later for them.</p>
<p>The School of Medicine looks over the high school records of the 300 and interview 1 out of 10; about 30. They are looking for medical experience and just the very top grades in high school sciences. Some of these kids have really extensive resumes in biology already, working directly with a doctor who can write an honest recommendation is important.</p>
<p>They choose 50% of these; about 15. Some of these kids believe it or not decide to NOT do Med Scholars at the last moment. This is extremely unwise, shall we say. UCSD is rarely the students’ first choice and they have set their heart on Rice or Columbia, UCLA, Berkeley etc. and have already been admitted there. It’s actually hard for them to convince these students to go to UCSD, which is astounding considering their new $70 mil teaching facility.</p>
<p>Out of the 15, only 12 are admitted because 3 usually say no! 6 boys, 6 girls. It’s not a 12 out of 1200 chance, it’s 6 out of 1200.</p>
<p>So with the interview you are basically in if you;</p>
<ol>
<li>Have medical experience.</li>
<li>Really want to go to UCSD, know something about it and fit in well.</li>
<li>Have a personality. Smiling doesn’t count. Everybody smiles. Telling a joke helps, having a hobby that your parents didn’t tell you to pursue is good. They aren’t just looking for enthusiastic robots, they want people who are genuinely interesting.</li>
<li>This is basically a medical school interview. All the Med School rules apply.</li>
</ol>
<p>Anyway, good luck, UCSD’s program is the best and probably the most underrated educational experience in the nation.</p>
<p>HappyDaddie:
What you have posted is for the UCSD Med Scholars program not Caltech-UCSD program which is different</p>
<p>The selection process is different since Caltech-UCSD has a much smaller starting pool but I suspect the interviewers and interviewing itself should be consistent.</p>
<p>Some of the negatives about not being a first choice for UCSD undergrad may not apply since Caltech is where one does undergrad in this program.</p>
<p>Just got accepted into RPI/AMC combined physician-scientist program. Good luck to all !!!</p>
<p>"offered to about 1200 students.</p>
<p>Only about 300 reply and try for it. Almost all of these are Regents Scholars, which is almost as important a program at UCSD to be admitted to as the Med Scholars. Some are NOT Regents Scholars, though, and this can be a problem later for them."</p>
<p>“Out of the 15, only 12 are admitted because 3 usually say no! 6 boys, 6 girls. It’s not a 12 out of 1200 chance, it’s 6 out of 1200.”</p>
<p>^^ this is still a crap shoot. UCSD may give you full-ride, but just won’t give you an interview -even you are a Regents Scholar, and latter get accepted to HYPMS. So don’t be upset, other schools may like you.</p>
<p>“What you have posted is for the UCSD Med Scholars program not Caltech-UCSD program which is different”</p>
<p>I’m assuming that students are applying to both programs, but yes, this is the UCSD-Caltech, not Caltech-UCSD program. You can double your chances by applying to both; the end result is basically the same. The numbers just scale to the applicant pool.</p>
<p>Only California residents are invited to apply to the UCSD/UCSD program. They have a strict 4.0/2250 SAT or 34 ACT line in the sand in order to be considered. ~50 are invited for interviews </p>
<p>Any student admitted to Caltech can be considered for the Caltech/UCSD program. ~16 are invited for interviews.</p>
<p>An admissions officer at UCSD SOM told me that the programs were slightly different from each other, and from the regular med school program, and that more would be explained at the interview.</p>
<p>some while ago, i looked into the accepted students into UCSD scholars program, found that quite a few students are in human Biology, just wondering … From my understanding, this major is good for family/internal medicine.</p>
<p>Also heard that to get “lab experiment/work”, is based on seniority,that means if you are in lower class year (meaning freshmen or sophomore), you are in lower priority to use lab room. I don’t know if it’s true.</p>