UCLA, Berkeley, or Northwestern: Pre-Med

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<p>I'm deciding between UCLA, Berkeley, and Northwestern, and I'm probably going to aim for a pre-med path.</p>

<p>I'm out of state (from Illinois), so the Cals are expensively priced, even though not as expensive as NU.</p>

<p>However, I received a total of $32k from NU in scholarship, while the Cals only gave me $8k each in scholarship.</p>

<p>How do the pre-med programs compare? Decisions if money wasn't a problem?</p>

<p>Thanks :)</p>

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<p>UCLA and NU > Cal for premed IMO “Premed” majors are very competitive at Cal –> lower gpa. But if you’re interested in the research aspect of science instead of just going to med school, then Cal is a great place because it has a lot of research opportunities</p>

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<p>Go to whichever’s cheapest. If you’re going to med school, saving money will be very important. I don’t think you can go wrong with any of those choices.</p>

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<p>I once saw the statistical data of UC San Francisco Med School and there I found out that UC Berkeley undergrads are better represented than UCLA and NU. The gap margin was negligible. Then I tried to look at the data of UCLA Med School and found out that UC Berkeley grads were well represented too. But I think I saw that about 2 years ago.</p>

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<p>IMO, Northwestern is no-brainer. Unless you want to get out of Illinois.</p>

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<p>NU’s overall placement rate has been between mid 70s and low 80s %. UCLA/UCB overall rates have been around 50s%. The only thing is NU doesn’t give a detailed matrix of GPA/MCAT vs placement rate so further comparison isn’t possible. But at least as far as the overall rate goes, NU has a clear edge.</p>

<p>I emailed NU recently and here’s the response from one of the assistants:</p>

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