<p>Professors at private schools are not primarily paid to do research (as opposed to teaching)?</p>
<p>That’s news to me.</p>
<p>/UCSD alum at a private school</p>
<p>^ I concur.</p>
<p>If your title has “professor” anywhere in it, you’re there to do research first and foremost.
If you’re a “lecturer,” then you’re being paid to teach. </p>
<p>***unless you’re a prof at a tiny little liberal arts school. but this is a ucsd forum, so i’m assuming that you’re talking about comparable schools, which are all research universities.</p>
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Actually I don’t have to. Cal and UCLA are two of the largest school in terms of undergrad population and asian student population.
It’s true that UCSD has similar demographics, but since there is substantial self selection going on, number of applicants from Cal/UCLA should be greater than that from UCSD.
I think you can find the statistics in AAMC website.</p>
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The source for all statistics above came from AAMC and AMCAS.</p>
<p>UCLA: [UCLA</a> Career Center](<a href=“http://career.ucla.edu/Students/gradprofschcounseling/MedicalSchoolStatisticsForUCLAGraduates/MultiYearMedicalSchoolAcceptanceRates.aspx]UCLA”>http://career.ucla.edu/Students/gradprofschcounseling/MedicalSchoolStatisticsForUCLAGraduates/MultiYearMedicalSchoolAcceptanceRates.aspx)
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<p>UCB: <a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/MedStats/national.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/MedStats/national.stm</a>
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<p>UCSD:<a href=“http://career.ucsd.edu/_files/ucsd-admits-2008-10.pdf[/url]”>http://career.ucsd.edu/_files/ucsd-admits-2008-10.pdf</a></p>
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<p>Though for Econ, I know this is starting to change a bit, at least for tenure decisions. Professors are still primarily hired based on their teaching ability, but there’s been increasing pressure at all the SLACs for Economics professors to also publish at least 1 A+ level pub every 1-2 years (which is still low since most top R1s have a requirement of 1-2/year).</p>
<p>@Oyama: Nono, they do primarily do research. </p>
<p>I guess what I meant was that private schools aren’t subjected to huge, major budget cuts like the UC’s are, which forces class sizes beyond 300, maybe 400 people in lower division courses. USC is a fairly large school too, but its class sizes are smaller, its largest lower division classes at 200 max. Note that there are very few classes this big while you can expect all the lower division science and perhaps economics classes to be incredibly large.</p>
<p>The Professors at private universities do much less weeding out when it comes to these classes. At Northwestern, I believe there is only one premed weed out class. At USC, there are perhaps, 2? At the UC’s almost all the science LD classes are weed out. At the many of the ivies, there aren’t any. </p>
<p>As I said, in individual cases, an average student would have a better chance succeeding in the premed route at a private school. Just because a school has more people who succeed in getting a good MCAT at a certain high GPA doesn’t mean every student will. </p>
<p>Although, Coolweather brought up an EXCELLENT point about the LA area having fewer resources because of the competing schools while UCSD is one of the only, if not the only, school in the area, giving its premeds more opportunities for research and volunteering.</p>