<p>Okay, brief background, I'm trying to decided whether to attend UCSC or UCI for undergraduate education. I've visited both campus' and loved them both, and now I only have a few mroe questions and I decided to post here since I'm thinkng of applying to Berkeley for graduate school.</p>
<p>If I get the same GPA at both schools and around the same MCAT score, who would they take the UCI student or the UCSC student? both?
What if a UCSC student had a higher GPA, and around the same score on the MCAT as a UCI student, who will they accept? Vice-Versa?</p>
<p>Oh man, the answers you get to this thread are going to be purely subjective. </p>
<p>But in my opinion: </p>
<p>The decision at the time will be based of the individual circumstances of the applicant. The UCSC student even WITH a lower GPA and MCAT could be accepted based on their outside experiences over the Irvine applicant. Both could be rejected. There's multiple possibilities that can happen. Just because someone on this forum says "UCI because it has the better reputation" (which I know someone will say) does not mean that in four years, when applying to grad school, you will get in because you went to UCI.
And I know you know this, but the hypothetical circumstances you want answered are so vague, barely touching the surface of the real criteria, that I just have to reply with a generally "DUH" kind of answer.</p>
<p>What's best is that you really think long and hard about where you personally will excell at: in the environment, in the classes, in the area, whether you will stay motivated for the next four years at that particular place, etc. Then go to that college and work you ass off, while not thinking "I should have gone to UCSC or UCI, it would have helped me more." </p>
<p>I'm sure you'll do fine at either, though.</p>