<p>I am a current UCB Student.
At UCB, most science classes are given based on normal curve, which simply mean top 20% gets A, next top 20% gets B.
This is especially difficult when everyone here was basically a top student in its high school and also considering most med school wants students with 3.7+GPA. Bare in mind, A- is 3.7 and B is 3.3 and B- something like 2.8.
I am not sure if I can handle this environment. If GPA Is so important, I might even consider transfering out to easier my home state school such as University of Florida.
I also figured most medical school tend to pick in-state students.... I am very sure I want to become a doctor but at Berkeley, I do not think I can manage 3.7 GPA. Maybe low 3.</p>
<p>Pre-med will tend to attract strong, competitive students at many schools. At most state flagships, pre-med classes tend to be large. Your own state flagship may be a bit less competitive - and cheaper - but it won’t necessarily be less arbitrary or mechanical in its grading practices. If you want more personal attention from faculty (in grading and other areas) you may want to check out smaller schools such as NCF (where professors give narrative evaluations, not letter grades).</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/new-college-florida/1498578-can-ncf-lead-to-good-grad-school-or-med-school.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/new-college-florida/1498578-can-ncf-lead-to-good-grad-school-or-med-school.html</a></p>
<p>(“among public institutions, New College is second only to The University of Michigan in the percentage of students admitted to top graduate programs in medicine, business and law” according to a WSJ “feeder school” study done about a decade ago.)</p>
<p>Sorry but, another thing you might want to improve upon is your writing and mechanics skills. It’s tough reading through a question when there are multiple errors. </p>
<p>Is there a question in the post?</p>
<p>My question is should I stay at Berkeley or transfer to my home-state school which is University of Florida where I believe academic rigor is less competitive (easier to get A competitive to Berkeley)</p>
<p>Because medical school is expensive, being able to go to Florida at in-state cost at a likely substantial savings versus Berkeley at out-of-state cost may be a compelling argument for transferring, so that you can apply the saved money to medical school and reduce the debt you will graduate with (assuming you get into medical school in the first place – only about half of US MD medical school applicants get into any US MD medical school).</p>
<p>How come so many applicants (half of medical school applicants) get accepted? This percentage seems to be unbelievably high considering individual school acceptance rates are at 10% some less and more competitive than others</p>