Looking for Tips, Resources and Suggestions for Applying to University of California's

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I’ll tag @Gumbymom who can give you more specific advice.

But I will say…your kid can major in anything she wants as an undergrad. She just needs to take the required courses for medical school admissions also. Really…ANY major is fine.

Adding…I would suggest you read again your previous thread about applying to UCs.

ETA…your daughter could get accepted to medical school from Santa Cruz, Merced or Riverside. Really.

Admission Chances at a University of California

Hi, My kid is committed but not sole-minded (she has a balanced life). This shows in her transcript (4.25 weighted GPA for the U.C. application purposes from collegeboard website) because she is “only” taking 4 AP classes. She has good volunteer experience and also played competitive (travel volleyball) so her well-rounded ness comes across but she didn’t do anything especially noteworthy in the sense her volleyball team didn’t win any championships, her volunteering didn’t win any awards etc. She is a junior and will take a further 2 AP classes next year so we expect the weighted UC GPA to stay around 4.1 to 4.25. We live in CA and we prefer she goes to a U.C. but if she doesn’t get in she needs to prepare to apply for other schools. So the big questions are: What are her chances to get into ANY U.C. as an undeclared major? What are her chances of getting into one of the better (not Merced, not Riverside, not Santa Cruz) UC as an undeclared major? Same two questions as above but…