<p>I heard that the acceptance go med school is relative low,
compared to other UC schools and other first tier universities.
Is this true?</p>
<p>In your opinion, how challenging is it for a premed to make it successful?</p>
<p>in one word - very challenging. Uber-competitive if you go for MCB.</p>
<p>And acceptance is relatively low compared to other UCs? I’ve never heard this before. Maybe someone else can help you with that.</p>
<p>No, it is not wise to be pre-med at Berkeley. I strongly advise that if you are seriously considering pre-med, you should go somewhere else cause it will make your life a lot easier.</p>
<p>oh god. okay well i signed up for neurobio, that is considered “premed” right? i’m also considering another school that’s private (and i would probably get better one on one attention)</p>
<p>Its not the one on one attention thats the problem. It’s you GPA - a huge factor when it comes to med school. MCB classes in Berkeley are grades harshly and your GPA will suffer. I don’t know much about neurobio, someone else will surely help you in a while with that.</p>
<p>I’ve been really surprised at the amount of pre-meds here who say that they should have gone to a CSU.</p>
<p>They say it’s because CSU’s a lot easier, school name only marginally matters in med school admissions, and because they would have gotten a scholarship.</p>
<p>But the resources and research that someone can get at Cal is probably a lot better than other places.</p>
<p>im premed-also intended neurobio in my second year and i often kick myself for not going to a csu-but it really depends on how much you can thrive in a competitive environment in a sea of students-you may handle it better than i have these past two years…</p>
<p>I think the reason the percentage is so much lower is because there are so many students that go premed all the way. No matter where you go, you are going to have to work hard. If you come up here, there are a lot of opportunities (service, research) and the academics will push you to learn more (which probably will help with the MCAT score).</p>
<p>And if you decide to not go premed, Berkeley offers you more opportunities.</p>
<p>Cal med school admission rate is actually the highest among all UC’s. For the 2008 cycle, the admission rates for Cal, UCLA, UCSD, and national average are 53%, 50%, 43%, and 46%, respectively.
It is, however, low when compared to the top private and liberal arts schools.</p>
<p>That may be true, but that could also be because that students that are accepted and attend Cal/Ucla work harder, meaning that if you ARE accepted to Cal but choose to go to an “easier” college, you are improving your chances.</p>
<p>NO!!! Berkeley is so not worth being premed. There are so many days where I regret being a science/pre-health major here. The stress is sooo not worth it. It is a dog eat dog world here. It only gets worse when you take higher classes as the tests are more killer and they have already weeded many wannabes and you are competing with the head *****es in town.</p>