<p>Does UCLA give any preference to their undergraduates for their med school, or do students still have an identical chance as anyone else? I can't find any statistics on it...</p>
<p>If anything, they’re probably penalized. Think about it: a disproportionate number of UCLA students will want to go to UCLA med. So they’re going to get a lot of UCLA applications, and a lot of the people they admit will end up coming. So unless they want their student body to be overwhelmingly UCLA/UCLA, they’ll have to punish their own students.</p>
<p>This is especially true since UCLA is a normal sized medical school but a very large undergraduate school.</p>
<p>I would say a definite yes to UCLA. However, other schools are different. </p>
<p>A school like UNC, for example, would probably not disadvantage and maybe even advantage students applying there. Why? UNC accepts or even considers hardly any outofstate students (unlike UCLA). UNC’s applicants thus come from the major NC schools in probably nearly equal portions. In other words UNC SOM may have 100 applicants from both NC State and UNC undergrad. I would estimate that State would have nearly the same number of premeds than UNC, could be wrong though… To move on, I would guess that UNC would perhaps look slightly more favorably on their own undergrads as compared to NC state if similar numbers applied etc.</p>
<p>Wait so a definite yes that they are preffered or disadvantaged (from UCLA)?</p>
<p>I don’t think there are definites (we are not UCLA med adcoms…) but mike makes a great and valid point. I was giving a comparison to UNC which MAY be different.</p>
<p>Why do you want to go to UCLA’s med school? I’ve heard good things about the med school at UC Davis, and even Irvine.</p>
<ol>
<li>A lot of research</li>
<li>P/F </li>
<li>Great location</li>
<li>Good reputation (both the med school and the affiliated hospitals)</li>
<li>Cheap! (for CA residents); also an automatic $5000 scholarship from the David Geffen endowment</li>
</ol>
<p>In reality UNC undergrads are at somewhat of a disadvantage when applying to its med school and OOS UNC undergrads even moreso. They do actually accept more from other schools in North Carolina than they do from Chapel Hill.</p>
<p>uvajack: I would say a definite yes to UCLA.
kutibah: Wait so a definite yes that they are preffered or disadvantaged (from UCLA)?
uvajack: I don’t think there are definites </p>
<p>Hahaha I thought that was pretty funny.</p>