<p>Or where did you get in that you turned down?</p>
<p>I'm not a pre-med, but I had a ton of friends who ended up at SUNY-Buffalo, SUNY-Upstate, and SUNY-Downstate. SUNY-Buffalo is pretty popular because you can apply your sophomore year and you will not have to take the MCATs. These pre-meds were mostly New York State residents who knew they didn't want to go into a high-end research track. A lot were females who were hoping to balance family with career. I also had two female friends get into the UMass Med school in Worcester.</p>
<p>Everybody who went to one of these Med school say that their current studies are a cake walk and that Cornell prepared them wonderfully -- that they are the best prepared students in their class.</p>
<p>Others? Well I had a fair number of pretty brilliant friends who went on for PhD-MD programs. One ended up at a MD-PhD program at Penn, another at JHU, and another at Cornell-Weill. A fourth got a 45 on her MCAT and ended up at Harvard. But she actually just dropped out half way through her rotations to pursue an MFA.</p>
<p>Life takes funny turns.</p>
<p>haha...I was accepted to some foreign schools and didn't apply to any US schools because I had little faith in myself until this year when I got my GPA up significantly. I've decided I want to stay in the US and depending on how my retake of the MCAT goes, I will be applying to US schools this year.</p>
<p>I have a friend currently at NYU. My friends this year were accepted to Drexel, Rochester, Wake Forest, NYU, Cornell, Dartmouth, Stony Brook, Upstate, Downstate.</p>
<p>With 470 medical school applicants a year, you will find that Cornell premeds get into every med school in the country. Generally, anywhere b/w 1-10 Cornellians will matriculate at each Top 20 med school every year.</p>
<p>But norcalguy... where are you going to end up?!</p>
<p>I'm going to a Top 20 research med school next year. Overall, it's a good fit for my professional goals (mix of clincal practice and research and eventually clinical teaching) and it's in a great location.</p>
<p>I'm waiting on the final decision from one more school. It was the 13th and final school I interviewed at and also my favorite out of the bunch. It's also a research-oriented school. If I get accepted there, that's where I'll be going.</p>
<p>haha This post is incredibly vague.</p>
<p>"With 470 medical school applicants a year, you will find that Cornell premeds get into every med school in the country. Generally, anywhere b/w 1-10 Cornellians will matriculate at each Top 20 med school every year."</p>
<p>On the average, how many Cornell students get accepted by the UC medical schools every year? Say, UCLA, UCI, and UCSF, for example.</p>
<p>Is there a similar list for Cornell?</p>
<p>UCLA</a> Career Center</p>
<p>Such data isn't available for Cornell. I would guess that the CA residents do pretty well but most Cornellians are going to be applying to the SUNY's rather than the UC's since they're NY residents.</p>
<p>Wondering how hard it is to get into a west coast med school from Cornell... Anyone know people who got into UCLA for example?</p>
<p>If you're not a California resident it will be verrrry hard for you to get in.....but it can be done if your stats are good. My MCAT instructor says "if you're not a CA resident and you think you can get in to Harvard, then you can apply to a UC school"</p>
<p>Getting into public schools is a function of your residency, not where you went for undergrad. UCLA, especially, does not even give preference to CA residents. In fact, when I interviewed there, there were several out of staters interviewing and I met several med students who came from Florida, Arizona, etc.</p>
<p>CA schools are going to be tough no matter where you go for college. While nationally there is a 2:1 ratio of applicants to seats, Judy, Cornell's health careers adviser, told me that, in California, there is a 6:1 ratio. In general, most of the kids interviewing at UC's are attending UC's or Cal States. Coming from Cornell might make you stand out a bit.</p>
<p>Oh in my small interview group, there was another kid from Cornell (I actually knew him at school), a Brown kid, a Yale kid, a couple UCLA kids, and 1-2 others. You can see that there is a good mix of undergrads represented.</p>
<p>Thanks, norcalguy! It's good to know UCLA is also interested in out-of-state premeds. However, based on the stats quoted above (<a href="http://career.ucla.edu/GraduateSchool&PreProfessionalServices/UCLAMatriculantsToMedSchool.asp)%5B/url%5D">http://career.ucla.edu/GraduateSchool&PreProfessionalServices/UCLAMatriculantsToMedSchool.asp)</a>, either:</p>
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<li>CA (at least UCLA) students favor CA med schools, or </li>
<li>CA med schools do, in fact, favor UCLA premeds</li>
</ol>
<p>...or both! Which probably makes it harder to get in from out of state... </p>
<p>Am I off-mark?</p>
<p>hah...I went to San Diego two weeks ago...and if I were a CA resident I'd want to go back there :-)</p>
<p>The only peeps I know here who applied to UC schools are CA residents...but I'm sure there are plenty of non-CA residents who apply as well.</p>
<p>UCLA explicitly states on its website that it does not give preference to in-state residents. The other UC's do give preference. But, you won't lose your residency just because you go to college out of state.</p>
<h1>1 is true. CA students favor CA med schools. Why won't they? CA med schools are all top-notch, cheap, close to home, and in sunny California.</h1>
<h1>2 is unclear. Keep in mind, UCLA produces close to 700 applicants a year, most of whom will be applying to all of the UC's and most of whom will be CA residents . So, of course, you'll see lots of UCLA and Berkeley kids at each of the UC's. Cornell only produces 470 applicants a year and instead of being 98% CA residents, it might have 15% CA residents. 98% of 700 is 680. 15% of 470 is roughly 75. So, you would expect Cornell to have 1/10th as many applicants go to each of the UC's as UCLA, which equates to 1-3 Cornellians per UC. So, as long as there are 1-3 Cornellians per UC, proportionally, Cornell is just as well represented as UCLA.</h1>
<p>It's simple math.</p>
<p>The reason there's not a huge non-CA presence at UCLA Med is that while UCLA Med does not give an advantage in admissions to CA residents, CA residents do get in-state tuition so they have much more of an incentive to go to UCLA than an out of state applicant (this is why Cornell contract colleges are 50% NY residents). UCLA Med is still comprised of 15% out of staters which is much higher than the other UC's. When I say "out of state" I mean out of state residents, not CA residents who went out of state for undergrad.</p>
<p>And when I say CA residents would love to go to CA med schools, I mean it. Every CA resident I know of is applying to all of the UC's regardless of how competitive they are as applicants. It's just a given that you'll apply to UCLA, Davis, Irvine, UCSF, and UCSD as a package.</p>
<p>I must be the only idiot in the state. I have up a Berkeley acceptance to attend Cornell 4 years ago. And this application cycle, I turned down one CA interview and am giving up another UC acceptance to attend the med school I will be attending. :)</p>
<p>^^I'd sell my soul to the devil to be in your spot next year :-)</p>
<p>Good luck! It's been a really long and expensive process for me that began Feb of last year when I signed up for HCEC. Overall, I'm satisfied although not ecstatic about the way things have gone this cycle. We're in a time when there are just no guarantees anymore for applicants. I received interviews to 4 out of the top 10 med schools in the country but no interviews to Drexel or Jefferson or UC Irvine or even Cornell (no love from the alma mater :().</p>
<p>no love from the alma mater</p>
<p>That's surprising. I thought that something like 20% of the incoming Weill Cornell class were true Cornellians.</p>
<p>Weill is a very small med school. 100 students per class. Cornell is a very large undergrad. 470 applicants per class. </p>
<p>Not enough space to accommodate everyone I guess. It's alright. I think I'd be a little out of place in Upper East Side anyway. I received interviews to the other 3 Manhattan schools so I went to NYC a couple of times. It's not one of my favorite cities.</p>