UCs and CSUs

College Search & Selection
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<p>I know that UCs are seen as more prestige than CSUs but I was wondering if anyone knew the order of all UCs and CSUs ranking for premed. </p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-general/704511-ucs-with-better-pre-med-programs.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-general/704511-ucs-with-better-pre-med-programs.html&lt;/a&gt;
but there’s also a lot you can learn about this just through google. It’s hard to just generally have everything neatly ranked - you might want to do more research. </p>

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<p>Pre-med is not a major so I doubt their are official rankings out there. You need to pick a major such as Biology and then see if there are UC’s rankings for that major. I personally think rankings can be used as a guideline to narrow down some schools, but the criteria that they use to rank some schools can be really ridiculous.</p>

<p>I would consider the overall rankings of the schools to be indicative of the majority of their programs for the UC’s, I would put them as follows:
UCB/
UCLA
UCSD
UCD/UCSB/UCI/UCSC/UCR/UCM</p>

<p>For CSU’s, it can be more difficult since some schools may be very highly ranked for a few programs but not others, but here is my top CSU’s:
Cal Poly SLO
SDSU
CSULB
SJSU
CSU Fullerton
Cal Poly Pomona</p>

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<p>All the UCs are fine for a premed student. There is no ranking since premed isn’t a major.</p>

<p>The CSUs can be more dicey as a premed since traditionally, the UCs are the schools where premeds go. Not saying that a CSU can’t get into med school.</p>

<p>Tell us more about YOU.</p>

<p>What are your grades? test scores?</p>

<p>What will your major be? (and choose something that will work for another career in case you don’t go to med school)</p>

<p>how much will your family pay?</p>

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<p>It is doubtful that you will get a med school-worthy-MCAT score, so be sure to keep your options open.</p>

<p>You don’t test well, so the chance that you would score high enough on the MCAT is very very low.</p>

<p>Your GPA may get you into one of the lower UCs. Apply to Riverside and Merced for sure…along with others that interest you.</p>