<p>Im searching for colleges and some people told me Uc Merced is good and some said it was bad.. Im wondering if they have a good pre med program.. And if anyone knows if its going to get better and become a higher ranked Uc school throughout the years????</p>
<p>Oh and will uc merced set me up to get into med school???</p>
<p>I need help!!!</p>
<p>The chance you’ll get into med school is inversely related to the number of closing punctuation marks you use.</p>
<p>your cool aren’t you? Fagot.</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>^Now my chances are more than doubled!!! </p>
<p>Aw, dang, i lost it by the exclamations i typed since i was so excited</p>
<p>jbjh24 – Med school is for the top one half of one percent of college students. And that figure might actually be too high. </p>
<p>The best way to know if you are on track is to know if you are currently in the top one half of one percent of high school students. That is measured by rank in class (adjusted for school difficulty), GPA in tough courses, and SAT scores.</p>
<p>Are you top one half of one percent on the rank/gpa and SAT measures currently? Normally such students would be attending one of the higher ranked UCs, and not one of the lower ranked.</p>
<p>Since UC Merced is so new, you might want to check on the success rate of UC Riverside students in getting acceptance into med schools. Then find out, if you can, whether their stats upon entering UCR were similar to your stats currently.</p>
<p>Of the approximately 50,000 highly self-selected applicants to US medical schools each year, who on average apply to 14 schools, only about 16,000 are admitted to a medical school. In 1995 when I applied to medical school I was actually an Astronomy major (so you do not have to major in pre-med) and completed my BS in Astronomy from the University of Maryland College Park with a GPA of 3.7 and achieved a 31 total score on the MCAT. Out of 20 U.S. medical schools I applied to I was accepted at exactly one, Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, which is now Drexel University School of Medicine. I was lucky to get one acceptance because two thirds of the applicants to U.S. medical schools that year got zero acceptances. Many of those who had no acceptances had qualifications that were equal to or better than mine. I think the only reason I am a physician today is because I hit it off particularly well with the highest ranking person at the school I interviewed with during my interview day at Hahnemann.</p>
<p>The bottom line is getting into a U.S. medical school is a long shot for anyone. You need a very high GPA, strong MCAT scores and maybe a little bit of luck to have a chance.</p>