<p>TAG at UCI, they have a good med school and Irvine is in Socal so it’ll be more comfortable for a non-tradition student. Unless you really want to move up north, I don’t recommend it.</p>
<p>OP might also want to include Cal Poly SLO. A neighbor of mine had a son who went to the local cc, then transferred to SLO for premed. He graduated from Medical School last year, and is now a resident in Northern California.</p>
<p>Nice take, SMC, but I think the commute from SD to Irvine would be a bit too much. It’d take a toll on the OP’s study habits for premed if that’s what he ultimately chooses.</p>
<p>If OP’s considering SB for premed, he might as well consider SDSU for proximity since SD’s out. Neither is a premed hotbed, and I don’t think attending SB for premed because it’s a UC will have significant advantages over SDSU. I’ve heard of a couple of students who xfered out of UCLA because it was too competitive for premed to CSU’s and still became MDs.</p>
<p>I still think, though, that there should be something said for entering a school that has a good community of premeds. I think I and D are still the choices here because of their strong premed curricula and having a lot of students in them, and maybe sub in SDSU if the OP wants to live at home.</p>