<p>How do they compare for pre-med?</p>
<p>Aye. Same question here. BTW hereicome09, were you also accepted at Viterbi Engineering for Biomedical Engineering?</p>
<p>Same Q here.</p>
<p>same dilemma except for business… and biology</p>
<p>considering ucla rejected everyone who has a life other than school, i’d say usc!</p>
<p>jnm656-I couldn’t have said it better myself. Thank you.</p>
<p>What exactly do you want to know? Pre-med is just a set of ~10 classes anyone can take. UCLA has more students since its public as well as more asians. I believe UCLA has the most applicants to med school of any university which equals more competition, someone will have to find that stat for me. Pre-med classes are fairly large at USC. Biology ranges from 200-350 people, Chemistry from 100-200, Organic from 100-200, Physics from 50-100 and Calculus is ~60.</p>
<p>Try the search function. The comparison between SC and UCLA has been discussed frequently on this board. lol There are various threads on the subject.</p>
<p>New posts referring to Viterbi are in the UCSB, Cal Poly thread. </p>
<p>Also, Viterbi is the home of two National Science Foundation Research Centers: Integrated Media Systems Center and the Biomimetic Micro Electronic Systems Center.</p>
<p>For more complete information and list of faculty and awards here is the website: http:/viterbi.usc.edu/</p>
<p>"Biology ranges from 200-350 people, Chemistry from 100-200, Organic from 100-200, Physics from 50-100 and Calculus is ~60. "
Not in the Honors science classes at USC. They are capped at 60-70 students and are taught by the best teachers in each area[ but they are fast paced and offered only to “top” entering freshman- NMF, Trustee Scholars etc.]</p>
<p>Menloparkmom is correct, there are honors science classes in Biology, Chemistry and Physics that are smaller.</p>
<p>I heard the Biology students study a lot at USC.</p>
<p>yeah i wish i could do the freshman science honors program but i was told that since i applied as a business major not eligible to apply for it, even though i plan on double majoring and do qualify for the program with respect to everything else :</p>
<p>My brother was premed at USC and he said that he wished he had gone to UCLA for premed because the UC’s have superior science classes. USC is better for like business, while UCLA and the UC’s are better in the science field.</p>
<p>did your brother comment on the research opportunities at USC?</p>
<p>since i want to study both im having a hard time deciding.</p>
<p>UC’s in general are more research oriented, but he did some research on the side at SC.</p>
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<p>How does he know? He was at SC not UCLA, right?</p>
<p>If you compare any stats for admittance to medical school, know that getting into medical school is notoriously difficult for CA residents. Since UCLA has almost all CA residents, and USC doesn’t, USC might look more successful. </p>
<p>See the low % of CA students accepted in-state, and a high percentage out-of-state.</p>
<p>[AAMC:</a> FACTS Table 5: Applicants to U.S. Medical Schools by In or Out of State Matriculation Status](<a href=“http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2007/2007slrmat5.htm]AAMC:”>http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2007/2007slrmat5.htm)</p>
<p>Yeah he was at SC, but he took summer school MCAT classes at UCLA and he just knew of his friends at UCLA/UC’s who were better prepared…</p>
<p>UCLA has been ranked as one of the top-5 pre-med schools in the country. There are several internship/volunteer/research opportunities for students through the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, which is newly renovated and has been ranked as the #1 hospital on the West Coast, and #3 nationally. So to say that you’ve taken up opportunities through there will look great on a med school app. </p>
<p>The pre-med program is rigorous, but I have tons of friends who are in it, and haven’t heard many complaints. People from other schools talk about cutthroat competition, but I just haven’t seen it at UCLA. People study together in groups for exams, coordinate classes together, etc. The school in general is so laid-back, and people are so genuine, that I think it makes an intense pre-med program well worth it. </p>
<p>I really can’t speak for the program at SC, since I don’t know much about it. I do know UCLA is considered more of a research school, while (as someone said earlier), USC is very renowned for its business programs. UCLA is almost always considered the better school for pre-med, and I know my friends who chose it over the pre-med at SC seem happy with their choice.</p>
<p>USC does offer a certain program where they guarantee you admission into their med school (don’t know the particulars, but I think you have to be invited to it), so if you received that then that might be a point in their favor.</p>
<p>They’re both great schools academically, but as far as pre-med is concerned, there’s really no downside to the program at UCLA, and with it’s current reputation as one of the top 3-5 in the nation for that major, I’d advise you to give it serious consideration.</p>
<p>Congratulations on your admissions!</p>
<p>[Ronald</a> Reagan UCLA Medical Center](<a href=“http://www.uclahealth.org/homepage_med.cfm?id=264]Ronald”>http://www.uclahealth.org/homepage_med.cfm?id=264)</p>
<p>vc08,</p>
<p>I suggest you give a link saying UCLA premed is top 3-5 in the nation, which sounds ridiculous if you use your head to think about it for 0.5 minutes. </p>
<p>I don’t know where you got your information, but according to what I heard from a USC staff whose S1 was doing premed at UCLA, it is different from what you just said. They told me, at UCLA, research opportunities are hard to come by, and students are left on their own. <em>Many</em> students drop off the program, and say bye-bye to their dreams. Even you stick it to the end, more than half of premeds at UCLA can not get into med schools in their first or second try. However, if you keep trying, you can eventually get somewhere. So it is not all bad. </p>
<p>Considering how they loved UCLA (if her son chose USC, the tuition will be free. But they still chose UCLA), I think their accounts are very credible.</p>