<p>Few months ago I calculated the odds of a California resident getting into a California school at 40% of all California students in medical schools based on some numbers I found here and there but looking at the chart wowmom provides this number is 37.1%. </p>
<p>I have a kid going to school in California but I would never allow that kid to become a resident in order to go to med school since there is much better chance of getting in a non-resident in CA than as a resident.</p>
<p>Just some info. Huge nuber of UCLA or Berkley are applying for Med. Schools in Midwest. Why? You have to investigate yourself. I am just aware of it. Specifically, Berkley is #1 represented in D’s Med. School class, beating pre-meds from the UG coming from Med. School university. Overall, lots of CA interview in Midwestern Med. Schools and get accepted in disproportional numbers. One of the reasons might be that many are Asians. Any very selective place (even including selective public HSs that accept strictly on test scores) will have hugely disproportional number of Asian students. In D’s class, it was looking like majority (during white coat ceremony).<br>
You can make any conclusion. Our conclusion was that it is very hard to get into CA Med. Schools.</p>
<p>Forgot to list UCSD:</p>
<p>75 out of 2182 OOS applicants accepted; 202 out of 3777 in state applicants accepted ( <1% of instate applicants get accepted)</p>
<p>Getting accepted by ANY CA public med school is steep odds.</p>
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<p>In contrast, about 25% of Minnesota applicants get accept to UMN (and if interviewed your chances go up to better than 50-50).</p>
<p>You are in the groove right now so don’t screw it up. You are getting the grades and EC 's to get into med school and you are doing better in school than any time in your life.</p>
<p>I worked in Ca for months at a time on a temp assignment. Besides the extreme competition, there are too many distractions there. It is better being cloistered in the snow with A’s in Organic chemistry. Remember those mechanisms are the toughest part of organic. After that year will come Biochem and histology which will be challenging in their own way.</p>
<p>Don’t mess with Karma and tempt fate.</p>
<p>Davis, Riverside, Irvine take essentially no OOS applicants. (<10/year)</p>
<p>Yes, and maybe some/most of the UC OOS students are MD/PhD or MD/XXX??? Or have some odd hook?</p>
<p>Anyway…any premed who purposely loses his instate status from a state that has easier MD admissions to get residency in Calif is being VERY short-sighted.</p>
<p>alright sorry i’m a little late. This come directly from UCLA webpage copied and pasted </p>
<p>residence: No preference is given to state of residence. However many applicants come from California. Acceptees from California are more likely to matriculate at UCLA. Out of 145 freshman, 85 percent were from California.</p>
<p>First this says the contrary to many of the points you are trying to make. Also the number of people they accept is about half of what you say the combined OOS and IS are.</p>
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<p>WOWMom gave the number of accepted applicants, while your quote gives the number of matriculated freshmen, that’s the cause of the discrepancy between totals.</p>
<p>^ I am not sure he understands much of what we are telling him if he is going around looking for contradicting evidence.</p>
<p>He does not understand he could be changing the actual course of his life by doing this. He may unknowingly be choosing between a doctor in Minn. and a pharmaceutical salesman in Ca.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Exactly.</p>
<p>and UCLA’s rules aren’t the rules of the other UC SOMS. And, how many of those OOS students were MD/PhD or MD/XXX? </p>
<p>The student would be really short-sighted to give up his residency for Calif when getting accepted to UCLA SOM or any UC SOM is a very low chance.</p>
<p>It is very likely that he’ll end up in some other career if he goes to Calif, while he could become a MD in his own state.</p>
<p>Why do kids put their career goals at risk, when they don’t need to???</p>
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<p>Because the pre-frontal cortx does not fully mature until the mid-20s. The pre frontal cortex is the part of the brain that inhibits impulsive behavior, deals with long term planning and goal-setting, and organizes behavior to achieve long term goals.</p>
<p>IOW, their brains haven’t grown up yet.</p>