<p>Just a general question, does UCSD medical school prefer to enroll its own students (attended UCSD undergrad)? If so, by what percentage? Anyone know of a website with more details about this?</p>
<p>i think it's harder to go to a medical school that is the same as the undergraduate school you went to. it's not impossible, but it's very hard</p>
<p>I don't think there's concrete evidence, but most schools rather have their undergraduates continue schooling elsewhere. I want to go to UCSD for electrical engineering gradaute school :].</p>
<p>Why would they want their undergraduate students to go elsewhere?</p>
<p>It is sort of viewed as academic nepotisim.</p>
<p>Would it be easier to get into UCSF then?</p>
<p>no ucsf is super hard...</p>
<p>is it rare for UCSD pre-med students to go to prestigious med schools (Harvard, Stanford, Hopkins, etc.)? Does anyone have statistics for this?</p>
<p><a href="http://career.ucsd.edu/sa/PMedHis.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://career.ucsd.edu/sa/PMedHis.shtml</a> -
UCSD Nine Year Medical School Admissions History</p>
<p><a href="http://career.ucsd.edu/sa/PMedSch.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://career.ucsd.edu/sa/PMedSch.shtml</a> - list of schools</p>
<p>anyone have numbers? i mean.. maybe one student got into ucsf.. never know well im sure there was more but yeah.. is it harder to get into med school b/c sd is so much competition? almost everyone is premed</p>
<p>Not everyone is in premed...less than 400 UCSD students applied to medical schools each year -- see stats below: </p>
<p>---------Applicants-------Admission Rates </p>
<p>------Nat'l-----UCSD-----Nat'l----UCSD<br>
2005 40,652--383-------46%----47%
2004 38,727--362-------47%----50%
2003 38,034--353-------49%----49%<br>
2002 36,032--363-------52%----51%<br>
2001 32,797--360-------50%----52%<br>
2000 35,004--351-------47%----50%<br>
1999 37,010--344------46%----43%
1998 38,714--315------42%----45%<br>
1997 40,429--338------40%----43%</p>
<p>a lot more kids come in premed...tons switch out, however.</p>
<p>That's normal...A lot of kids got admitted to engineering...and tons switched out too! The bottom line is most kids don't know what they want to study and change their majors in their 2nd (or 3rd) year. Some got this inflated view of how "good" they were based on their high school records but found out they could not hack it in college in certain subjects (i.e. organic chemistry, physics, linear algrebra, etc.). Some didn't have a good understanding of what certain major entail -- for example, kids got enthused going into engineering thinking they would be designing bridges, etc... but realized that they could be designing "gears" and got delussioned and switched.</p>