<p>Hi everyone. I'm having a really hard time choosing between biochem/chem in UCSD and media studies in Cal. I understand these are on completely different ends. I think I'd ENJOY media studies more, and I plan to go into marketing with this, I think. For UCSD, I plan to go on to optometry school. I don't especially enjoy chem, but.. well yeah.</p>
<p>What is the reputation of MS at cal? Another option for me is go there and switch to nutrition or chemistry in L&S, and start some optometry internships, but I feel like Cal isn't a medical/health university, and there won't be a lot of internships.</p>
<p>Someone please help me out :\ How is the rep of MS at cal..?</p>
<p>I’m curious about Media Studies as well. Anyone know anything?</p>
<p>Apparently its more of a “fluff” major, known (or with the reputation) for sports athletes and sorority girls.
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<p>Umm… if you’re thinking of optometry school, you should definitely consider Cal for undergrad… I mean, we have the BEST optometry school in the nation! </p>
<p>I’m not sure what you mean by “optometry internships,” but the pre-optometry people I know usually do one or more of the following activities here:
- shadow optometrists
- do clinical optometry research or vision science research at the optometry school here
- are in Foresight (pre-optometry club) and other related clubs
- misc volunteer opportunities at optometry school</p>
<p>I think Cal is a GREAT school for pre-optometry… I cannot emphasize that enough…</p>
<p>Also, your thinking is all wrong here. Where you go to school does NOT equal what you want to do. Media studies and science/pre-health are VERY different subjects and you need to choose what you’d rather do.</p>
<p>Hi,thanks for your input. I’ve already ruled out media studies. I do hav a question though. I’m really a confused…berkeleys optometry school is graduate school…right?
Pre optometry isn’t a major, just a path, or is it? </p>
<p>By internships, I mean liked this: ucsd is very medical and has several hospitals and therefore more resources if I want to get a job ore internship. Berkeley, on the other hand, is heavy in engineering jobs and internships, but doesn’t seem so for anything health related. Is it true? In sure there are some, but is there only a little or a lot?</p>
<p>This is absolutely not true. Berkeley’s biology program is one of the best in the country, and Biology is Berkeley’s second-most popular major (after EECS). Most, if not all, of those Bio students are pre-med/dental/optometry/whatever. Every one of my pre-whatever friends does Bio research at one of Berkeley’s labs, or at UCSF. All UCSF undergrad researchers are Berkeley students. It’s essentially Berkeley’s medical school (we share resources, research, etc). </p>
<p>Don’t mean this as a knock on SD. San Diego has a fine Bio program. But to say that Berkeley “doesn’t do anything health-related” is patently false. You’d be well-set up for Med school at either UC.</p>
<p>I don’t really understand why you’re so set on getting an internship/job. Most pre-health people don’t really do that because there aren’t many positions of that type available period. Like I said, there are quite a few pre-optometry students here who shadow/volunteer at an optometrist’s office. Are you looking for something paid? If so, keep in mind that many optometrist offices, hospitals, aren’t really looking to hire college students, especially with the job market the way it is.</p>
<p>You can always volunteer. You can always do research. Unless you’re engineering or business you probably won’t find a job related to your major (or future career) as an undergrad.</p>
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<p>Here are the optometry school course prerequisites:
[School</a> and College Prerequisites](<a href=“http://optomcas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=8]School”>http://optomcas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=8)</p>
<p>Note that no specific major is required. Even with an unrelated or non-overlapping major, it can be possible to fit pre-optometry in if you choose courses carefully.</p>
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<p>Actually, MCB graduates the largest number, although EECS may sometimes have more declared majors due to students entering already declared in the major while MCB majors spend three or four semesters as undeclared students before declaring the major. Of course, that does not even count the other biology majors, such as IB, which also graduates more than EECS.</p>
<p>From <a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm</a> , the number of graduates in 2011:</p>
<p>526 Molecular and Cell Biology
509 Economics
427 Political Science
372 Integrative Biology
357 Business Administration
344 Psychology
332 English
260 EECS (note: there were also 117 L&S CS)
259 Political Economy
246 Sociology
230 Media Studies
224 History
198 Public Health
190 Environmental Economics and Policy
174 Architecture</p>