Pre-med at UCLA

<p>I want to be a doctor. How is the pre-med program at UCLA compared to other schools??? (I'm in-state for Utexas).</p>

<p>Is there even such a program? I always hear people say "I'm majoring in pre-med!" That makes me think "What happens when you finish that and you fail to be a doctor? What do you do after that?!"</p>

<p><a href="http://www.career.ucla.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.career.ucla.edu&lt;/a> </p>

<p>--> Pre-Health </p>

<p>Well, not much to say. Overachievers. Pre-Meds in general are neurotic. More competition @ UCLA than @ U-Texas. Vague...</p>

<p>If you get into U-Texas Austin, go for it! Great school. In-state tuition. Prominent research university. BLhablbalha. It makes more sense esp if you're going to go to med school and procure even more debt.</p>

<p>There's no premed "program." Pre med is just courses you take that are prerequisites for medical school. Where you go for pre med isn't supposed to matter.</p>

<p>There might be some direct medical school programs though, at least there are for pharmacy. It's like 2 years undergrad and 4 years of graduate (something like that). University of the Pacific has it for pharmacy, don't know about medicine. </p>

<p>And I think UCSD has a direct med program?</p>

<p>I really wish people would stop saying "I am doing pre-med." Pre-med is not a major...to get into medical school you need a certain number of courses (bio, chem etc.) which you can get through any major. You are not "med" anything until you actually get into med school...so stop saying "pre-med." By that logic I can call myself pre-MBA or pre-PHD....you get the point :rolleyes:</p>

<p>lots of cute girls doing premed</p>

<p>^Not.</p>

<p>10 mother****ing characters.</p>

<p>UCLA's Medical School isn't that good.</p>

<p>UCLA Medical School =/= "Pre-Med" Program @ UCLA</p>

<p>Oh wow, I thought UCLA Med school rocked.</p>

<p>I don't think dhl3 knows what he is talking about...</p>

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<p>yeah, i agree with you</p>

<p>Oh, okay. 10char</p>

<p>premed classes are hard but doable if you study enough</p>

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<p>It's a matter of what you think is good or not.
Geffen is #13 in terms of medical school research.</p>

<p>The standards are not as high as Harvard, Hopkins, Stanford, etc. (or even close to) , so I guess there's a little reasoning behind dhl3's statement.</p>

<p>(meaning UCLA is considered 2nd tier to some people)</p>

<p>"(meaning UCLA is considered 2nd tier to some people)"</p>

<p>that is just ridiculous. ive never heard of anything like that before</p>

<p>^ 13 out of what... 150+ schools? That statistic only makes him look even worse (you have to keep this in context like mme-lin was sort of saying... these U.S. medical schools are all kept to very high and strict standards (each one admitting in the ballpark of the mid-100's in their entering classes) and it's not like the undergraduate pool where you can have colleges like bob jones, etc)</p>

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Yeah some of UCLA's female MS are fugly :rolleyes:
<a href="http://www.medstudent.ucla.edu/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=BBQ05&id=IMG_0004%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.medstudent.ucla.edu/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=BBQ05&id=IMG_0004&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Yeah, I know there isn't a pre-med major. But how much people at ucla actually get admitted to the med school they want to get into??? any info like that.
thanks,</p>

<p>well, about 50% of students at ucla and around the nation get in to a medical school.</p>

<p>theres no percentage for how many students get into the med school they want, but id assume that it is much lower than 50%. some people get into med school although it may not be the one they like</p>

<p>all these percentages can be found on the ucla career center website --> pre-health.</p>