<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>Grad school admission is so much more than just GPA and test scores...
The recs you will get are extremely important, as are your research interests and prior research experience. Your interview will be conducted by the faculty who will work with you and not just a random alumni you will never see again afterwards. If those faculty members are impressed by your person and your achievements, they will admit you regardless of whether you attend(ed) UCI or UCSC. And if they don't want to work with you, you won't be admitted regardless of which school you got your undergrad degree from.</p>
<p>Medical school (MD degree, for which you take the MCAT) and graduate school (master's or PhD degree, for which you take the GRE) are different, and have different admissions processes.</p>
<p>In general, medical and law school admissions tend to care somewhat more about grades and test scores and less about undergraduate institution, while graduate schools tend to be more lenient with applicants who have low GPAs from programs known to be rigorous.</p>