UC Davis, UCLA, or UC Berkeley?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I've been stuck on these three schools for the past few weeks, and I still can't choose.</p>

<p>I want to major in medicine, though I'm not sure what field yet. I was admitted for undeclared life sci for Davis and LA, and neurobiology for Cal.
I've visited Davis several times because I have 3 siblings that attended/attend it, visited Cal last week, and LA two years ago.</p>

<p>I feel like I want reasons to go to Cal, but I hear it's not as strong in medicine compared to LA and Davis. Location-wise, Cal and Davis are good (I'm from Sacramento and LA is kinda pushing it for my parents). Tuition for all three schools are roughly the same. I plan on going to med school, so I'm worried that I'll have a lower gpa if I go to Cal because I hear the classes are harder (than davis and la) and the way gpa is measured is lower than the other two schools. Plus a friend from davis said I only need a 3.5 gpa to get into LA's grad school if I attend UCLA.
I'm also a spring admit for Cal, and I'm currently waitlisted for their fall freshman program, which makes me worried about housing.</p>

<p>Pretty much Cal has all the cons, but I still feel like I'm leaning towards it for reasons I don't know. ANY help please T_T?</p>

<p>And yes, I don't know a lot about Cal and LA unfortunately, so sorry if these rumors I heard aren't true.</p>

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<p>Don’t believe the hype. I would say Cal but I don’t like the Spring admit program, I think it is highly irresponsible as Freshman year is very important for making friends, connections etc. The notion that it is easier to get good grades at UCLA than Cal is just plain wrong, the quarter system is NO JOKE and you often find faculty trying to ram a semesters worth of work into 10 weeks. </p>

<p>As fine as Davis is, I would not go there when you have Cal and UCLA as options. Oh yeah and a 3.5 is not an automatic for ANY med school. That is false info.</p>

<p>In your situation I would opt for LA</p>

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<p>I think the average gpa at cal is 3.3 while the average gpa at UCSD is like 3.0. Although most students at Cal probably work very hard to keep their gpa up. Davis seems to be much more chill than the other two and if you got scholarship it might be worth it to go.</p>

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<p>While Cal’s pre-med program is quite strong from what I hear,I would also choose UCLA b/c I wouldnt want to be a spring admit. Davis isn’t as well known as UCLA.</p>