<p>How good are chances for UCR premed students to get into their own med school and other UC med schools. I have been trying to get some info on their Haider program but there is not much info on selection criteria. </p>
<p>UCLA medical school doesn’t favor its own UG students but it doesn’t mean they’re harsher on them either. You should pick your undergraduate college based on whether or not you feel like the school is overall a great fit for you. Medical school is very difficult to get into, and your chances of getting in at any specific school are slim, which is why most applicants apply very broadly. </p>
<p>As DrGoogle has mentioned, all of the UCs are great schools and, provided that you do well (have a great GPA/MCAT/interesting and well developed ECs and passions) you will have a good shot at medical school–quite possibly even UCLA. </p>
<p>Being from California/going to a UC + applying to medical school in California = biggest crapshoot ever. </p>
<p>@CSB111 </p>
<p>It’s as much of a crapshoot, if not more, if you’re trying to go to graduate school in, say, UC Berkeley and went to UC Berkeley as an undergrad. Graduate schools strongly prefer not to accept applicants who went to the university that hosts that program as undergraduates.</p>
<p>Looks like we probably won’t be going to UCLA for graduate school if we want to get Ph.D.s, lol</p>
<p>Many of my friends’ kids got into various medical schools, but not the elite ones (top 15) such as UCSF, UCLA, UCSD, Harvard, Stanford, Univ.of Wash., etc. One from CA went to UW (Seattle) and is now a medical student at UCD. Two others went to UCLA and Brown, respectively, and both are now at Loma Linda U. medical school. Another graduated from UC Berkeley and is now at UCD (she was a high school National Merit Scholar). Lastly, two did their undergraduate work at UCD recently graduated from USC medical school (the two are now married). </p>
<p>Though non of my friends’ kids were accepted to the elite medical schools, I assume that to be admitted to elite medical schools, it helps if the undergraduate school is an elite school along with having at least close to a 4.0 gpa and top MCAT scores. Of course there are other factors such as volunteer work, lab research, etc.</p>
<p>My point is that as difficult as it is to get into medical school, it is even more difficult to gain admission into a top 15 medical program. In the old days when I was in college, I had quite a few friends who were accepted to medical schools at UCSF, UCSD,UCLA, Stanford, Harvard, Univ of Mich., etc. Some of my super smart friends chose the engineering route and then graduate school (PhD’s) at Stanford or MIT.</p>