Hi everyone, if I get some responses I would deeply appreciate it. A little about myself, I have been attending community colleges since like 2011, I am turning 23 this year. Last year, I was an idiot and only applied to one school, which was Cal State Fullerton, to major in Health Sciences. I am now getting cold feet about going to this school this fall. I am a PRE-PA student, and I have taken almost all the pre reqs for PA school except O chem and General Bio. All my friends have already graduated or are graduating this year. I REALLY want to not go to CSU Fullerton this semester and I want to wait a year and go to a UC. I just don’t know if its worth it? I know that everybody says that it doesn’t matter where you go for undergrad, but I just don’t see myself going to CSU fullerton and I’m already turning 23. I would apply to UCSD, UCLA, maybe UCI, and UC Riverside. Is anyone in my position? I feel like if I waited and went to a UC, that would be a full year of me being one year late of becoming a PA, which means really losing $60,000 for that year I didn’t go to CSU Fullerton.
ANY ADVICE OR SUGGESTIONS PLEASE;
Waiting another year is no big deal. What is your GPA?
“that would be a full year of me being one year late of becoming a PA”
Which really in the grand scheme of things is nothing.
As lindyk8 said, what’s your GPA?
What draws you to the UCs, versus where you’ve already been accepted?
While I have no idea how selective or how hard to get into PA school is, I would assume the most important thing is a strong GPA (as well as the normal other things that round out a person). UCLA is a school with more prestige, but are average grades often lower than that of CSU Fullerton?
Hi there Lindyk8, my GPA towards a CSU is a 3.39 and towards a UC it would be 3.43, and I know it is low. I am working on it. I hope I can even get into a UC.
To Braink82, I don’t know really, I know that UC’s are great schools, and I am open to other CSU’s, but just not CSU Fullerton, its like a commute school, UC’s like UCI aren’t commute schools, they are good quality schools. I hope you get what I’m trying to say? And about what you said in regards to UCLA and CSU Fullerton, I actually found out that CSU fullerton is considered the top 10 schools for the “hardest grading”, so like….I just don’t know what to do. If CSU Fullerton is hard, might as well go to a UC where its the same? What would you guys do?
Again thanks so much for replying you guys, I just feel like I don’t have many other people to talk to about this lol.
I think UCI actually is considered a commuter school…