You sure about that? My last two doctors went to UCSF, and both are from the east coast. They also went to undergrad on the east coast.
When did they attend?
I am willing to bet it was before 2008 and perhaps even in the 20th century.
Nowadays, yes. There aren’t even enough places for California residents half of them must go Oos.
@MYOS1634 , My current doctor graduated from UCSF in 2017. My previous doctor graduated from UCSF in 2014. (Lots of UCSF graduates serve their residencies with my health care provider.) Neither were Californians.
According to the following, 68% of those admitted to the UCSF medical school were from California.
http://meded.ucsf.edu/admissions/successful-applicant-profile-class-2021
There has to be a logical explanation - because I’m serious about the fact there’s not enough space for Californians in California med schools, that there’s a (logical) preference for Californians, and that the odds of a non Californian making it into a CA med schools are close to zero. I don’t have time to check the other CA med schools to see if UCSF is an exception and if there are 50 spots for non Californians in the whole system, 45 of which are at UCSF, or if those are MDPHD (those have different rules), or other possibilities wrt state of residence.
I only checked a UCLA page and they have the students’ profiles up. Over the last 3 PRIME classes, for example, there are two that I could find (one from Nigeria, one from AZ), none this year. I don’t have time to check all other classes of CA med schools though.
I found the following. In-state medical school applicants are given preference in California, which would be the case for any public university, but out-of-state applicants get accepted, too.
https://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■/medical/in-state-out-of-state-admissions
Thanks, that was very useful. So, except at Davis where they admit one Oos every 4-5 years, the UCs admit 1-2 OOS applicants a year, except UCLA which may admit one or two but sometimes 3-4 and UCSF which would admit 4. So, not zero, but pretty low - about up to a dozen spots for all Oos students (who are in the tens of thousands if not more). And these aren’t just Oos students who attended UCs, or even California colleges, they could be coming from anywhere.
Personally I still wouldn’t try my luck. 
On the other, such a choice shouldn’t be made solely based on a pre-med aspiration since so many students switch gears and change their minds.
@kangcharles17 : where did you deposit? How did you make your xhoice.?
What?? No.
For UCD, the ratio of in-state to out-of-state medical school acceptances is 24.76 in-state acceptances for every out-of-state acceptance.
For UCI, the ratio of in-state to out-of-state is 3.85 in-state acceptances for every out-of-state acceptance.
For UCLA, the ratio of in-state to out-of-state is 1.41 in-state acceptances for every out-of-state acceptance.
For San Diego, the ratio of in-state to out-of-state is 3.44 in-state acceptances for every out-of-state acceptance.
For UCSF, the ratio of in-state to out-of-state is 1.88 in-state acceptances for every out-of-state acceptance.
So it’s very hard to get into Davis if you’re from out-of-state. On the other hand, UCSF and UCLA medical schools each have incoming classes of 175. So for UCSF, a 1.88 ratio means that something like 114 in-state applicants were accepted vs 61 out-of-state acceptances… For UCLA, a 1.41 ratio means that about 103 in-state applicants were accepted, while 72 out-of-state applicants were accepted. (My ratio calculations didn’t exactly match the figures from the website, but were close. I’ll attribute that to round-off error.)
I have no idea why there’s such a discrepancy between Davis and the other UCs.