<p>Which is better for undergrad if one wants to successfully graduate with a high GPA, strong research, & superb MCAT score? </p>
<p>Which one would be better to attend if one wants to attend a prestigious medical school four years from now? </p>
<p>Any responses are appreciated, so hit me!</p>
<p>id say Davis just because everyone I know at Davis is thrilled to be there. visit both campuses and then make your decision. you can make it to good med schools from both davis and cal.</p>
<p>1.) What do I look for in an undergraduate school?
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=202936%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=202936</a></p>
<p>2.) Does going to a better med school matter?
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=213924&page=2%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=213924&page=2</a></p>
<p>3.) Davis and Berkeley probably trade off. Davis might be slightly easier, Berkeley has access to better research, and the MCAT is really more up to you than to the school.</p>
<p>4.) Just know that if for some reason you're aiming for a top ten medical school, Berkeley publishes numbers indicating that you need to try to be in their top thirteen premeds in any given class of nearly ten thousand total students. I'd guess that Davis's number is less than half that.</p>
<p>BDM, do you know if such numbers are published by other UCs (such as UCI, where I go to now) or WashU (school i got into as a transfer)? And when they say "top thirteen premeds", do you mean just raw #s or the whole picture?</p>
<p>I'm sure WUSTL will give you the numbers very happily -- and I will actually ask you as a favor to PM them to me once you've got them. NCG was the one who dug up Berkeley's numbers. I had been searching for a while and had never been able to find them. I'm guesisng UCI and UCD would be similarly hard to come up with.</p>
<p>And what I meant was that Berkeley only sends thirteen kids a year to top-ten medical schools. I don't think that's important in and of itself, because I don't think it's important to go to a top-ten medical school. I do think it's indicative of how premedical students at Berkeley fare overall, though.</p>
<p>Goodness. Measuring the top premeds only by MCAT and GPAs... that wouldn't... be sensible. This isn't law school admissions. If anything, the EC's, essays, and interviews are really the crucial steps.</p>
<p>Research and clinical opportunities at Davis could be better than at Berkeley because Davis has a medical school and a vet school. Cal's medical collaboration with UCSF includes a joint MPH program, a bioengineering and a medical robotics program.</p>