UCLA vs UCB for premed undergrad

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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is either UCLA or UCB significantly better for premed undergrad?

  1. more opportunities for medical related volunteering, internships, research, shadowing doctors, etc? - since UCLA has a lot of medical facilities on campus, while UCB doesn’t (oakland hospitals and UCSF are farther away and not directly associated with the school) i was thinking there would be many more opportunities for this at UCLA?

  2. the fact that UCLA has a medical school while UCB doesn’t - i’ve heard that medical school admissions tend to favor students who completed their undergrad at that same school

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those are just some factors i was considering. ^^^ if there are more factors that contribute to the topic please let me know. thanks!

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This is highly school dependent and often a med school may give the appearance of giving an advantage to its undergrad students when, in fact, they don’t. (The apparent advantage results from many factors, including in-state admission mandates, mission, early assurance programs, BA/MD programs, etc.)

Neither UCLA nor UCSF offer any in-state admission preferences, per their SOM admission webpages. (Which suggests that they aren’t offering any undergrad admission preferences either.)

The class profile of UCLA show matriculants with undergrads as diverse as CSU-San Bernardino and CSU-Fresno to Harvard and Stanford.

Both UCLA and UCSF have a largely instate student body (75% and 68% respectively) largely due the very large and extremely competitive CA med school applicant pool.

UCLA and UCB are both among the top 10 largest producers of med school applicants in the US.

https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/86042/factstablea2.html

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Both schools will offer all the resources and opportunities you need to be a successful premed. Whether you are successful is much more dependent on your efforts, much less on either UCLA or UCB.

In part above means that if you are successful, it’s most likely you will attend med school OOS as there are simply not enough slots for all the competitive and successful CA applicants

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In some private med schools, they takes in about 10% of their own UG, but that does not mean you will have any hook because you graduate from the same school. You need to be qualified, just like any other applicants, except that adcom would have an closer eye on the applicants.

Don’t know that applies to UCLA or UCSF.

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http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1484178-if-you-are-in-high-school-please-read-this-before-posting-p1.html

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Looks like you got Regents for UCB. Even though you have no need so the $$ aspect is low, the other Regents bennies could be big for you …priority registration…helping you get the profs that you want.

Did you get regents for ucla?

Btw…ucla med does not have a preference for its own undergrads.

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http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-berkeley/2071932-grade-distributions-in-prerequisite-courses-for-gpa-based-goals.html has some grade distribution information by course that may be of interest.

You may be able to derive similar information for UCLA from http://www.bruinwalk.com .