<p>I am leaning towards pre-med, although it is not set in stone.</p>
<p>I was accepted to UCI Paul Merage School of Business. I would have to switch my major.</p>
<p>UCSD Warren College Undecided (Winter admit)</p>
<p>I've been hearing that it is better to go to the 'less' competitive school and get the high GPA, opposed to going to a fairly competitive school like UCSD.</p>
<p>However, there is also the possibility of me deciding to change my major.</p>
<p>Well if you are gonna start UCI from the beginning, then i would say UCI...
-you would graduate on time
-you would get a higher GPA and higher rank: good for when you apply to Med. School
-i haven't heard that UCSD's pre-med track is all that better than UCI's</p>
<p>by your reasoning, you would also pick chico state over harvard because it's more likely that you'll get better grades at chico (assuming the drugs don't do you in first). </p>
<p>keep in mind that school-name-snobbery also exists at the medical school level. it may not be a very fair game, but you'll have to play it eventually.</p>
<p>I'd say UCSD, but I'm kind of biased because I'm probably going there, haha.
Just think of beautiful sunsets over La Jolla cliffs, an excellent education in the sciences, and a library that looks like a UFO. But seriously, either school is great. The competition will be roughly similar and quality of education also because each school has its share of good and bad professors. UCSD does have a slight edge in rankings, though. Just go where you can envision yourself for the next 4 years.</p>
<p>U should notice the last bullet pt. I made saying that UCSD's pre-med program isn't all that better than UCI's</p>
<p>Obiviously Harvard's programs are going to be by far better than Chico's, so the GPA is worth the sacrife in exchange for a more in-depth program</p>
<p>@ Sal2 - actually, I was referring to the first post, specifically this part: "I've been hearing that it is better to go to the 'less' competitive school and get the high GPA, opposed to going to a fairly competitive school like UCSD." My comment's not particularly applicable to your statement.</p>
<p>@ brassring (and others) - this is going around on some of the other threads, but in case you haven't made your rounds yet: it is NOT necessary to major in biology if you want to go to medical school. college is a time to discover and pursue stuff that excites you -- lovely if it is directly applicable to medicine, but by no means is it a necessary requirement. i've got friends here who have been physics, history, biochemistry majors and they're all doing just fine.</p>
<p>I don't think that you need to major in biology in order to go to med school -- I know kids who've majored in history and music who've both gotten into good med schools. They simply needed to include courses on the med school prereq list, like biochem, organic chemistry and genetics.</p>
<p>Bigger issue might be whether certain courses required to get UCSD's rec for med school are killer courses that UCSD won't allow you to take elsewhere. (Back in the day, UCSD's pre-med advising program required that you take Genetics at UCSD -- it didn't matter where else you might have taken it, unless you took it there -- and it was a killer course -- you weren't getting a rec for med school from them. But, that may have changed because it has been a lot of years.</p>