<p>This year, fall 2010, I got into UCLA College of Letters and Science with Pre Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics as my major. By the way, do those three majors count as premed?
I also got into University of Texas at Austin for College Of Natural Sciences (Undeclared/Prepharmacy). </p>
<p>I consider living to be a big factor, and the only thing keeping me from choosing UCLA is the dorms the freshmen must live in. My family consider rankings to be a big thing too, so what should I pick? </p>
<p>Btw why are they both pre?</p>
<p>Why don’t you want to live in the dorm? Anyway, UCLA is more prestigious and I think California is a much nicer place to live. I would choose UCLA for sure.</p>
<p>xshukakux: there is no such thing as a “pre-med” Major. There is pre-med advising, and a list of courses Med schools have specified they need to see on your transcript… but your major could be anthropology, history, art history, linguistics, anything… as long as you have also taken the physics, chem, bio and math courses the med schools have specified as pre-requisites.</p>
<p>Well, I’m mostly wondering why it’s both “pre” does that mean that if complete that major (MIMG) also, then it will only show up as “pre” on my degree?</p>
<p>No, there is no degree from UCLA or UT-Austin that reads “Pre-Med”. When you fill out your med school applications, you will list the courses you’ve taken in Chem, Bio, Physics and Math that satisfy the requirements of the admissions committees at Med Schools These course requirements are exactingly detailed and you should know them before you start college, so that you can work them in, no matter what your major is. Both of these schools are large Public flagships, and as such, do not have the budget for intensive pre-med advising. You need to take most of the initiative yourself to find out which coures are necessary, and figure out how to sequence them into your 4 or 4.5 years at college.</p>
<p>You could be a philosophy major and be pre-med (English majors do very well on the MCAT by the way) UCLA over UT unless you are instate for UT.</p>