<p>123465789BC: i am done i was just asking a few little question. take a chill pill.</p>
<p>btw thank everyone for all your replies and advice. i know the premed path at Cal will be very hard but atleast i know what to expect before i start.</p>
<p>that’s cold 1234</p>
<p>lefthominid, can you elaborate more on why they’re a bad pair? did you set the recommended schedule using a balance of easy-difficult classes?</p>
<p>umm… what pair were you talking about?</p>
<p>im GUESSING he is talking about the taking the bio 1ab series with the chem 3ab series and he is asking which combos will be really hard</p>
<p>Chem 3A/L with Bio 1A/L is illegal (as Bio 1A/L requires 3A)
Chem 3A/L with Bio 1B is fine
Chem 3B/L with Bio 1A/L is extremely masochistic
Chem 3B/L with Bio 1B is not as bad, but if you can you should avoid this combo</p>
<p>Proud to be a pre-med at Cal :)</p>
<p>Wow…sounds depressing :(</p>
<p>I’m an incoming freshman and I want to do pre-med in CAL but this thread really scared to crud out of me. I got into the Letters of Science College and I want to major in IB so I’m wondering if the prerequisite for that major will kill my GPA as well? I have a decent work ethic that I’m willing to bump up when I go to college?</p>
<p>^^ Take this thread with a grain of salt. Now I can’t say that Cal is the /best/ place to do premed, but people can and do get into medical school from here. Most of the people who don’t do well GPA-wise either procrastinate too much (though we all do it to some extent) or overload themselves or both, so perhaps whoever wrote that letter fits into one of those groups.</p>
<p>I know Cal students who have interviewed at top med schools and they said that they were among the only non-Ivy league kids at the interviews. So I think if you go to Cal and you do well, you will be at an advantage compared to students at lower UCs and state schools.</p>
<p>@amcseg: how did you do on your SAT exams & AP classes + exams? if you did well on all of those, you should be fine with a good work ethic.</p>
<p>Amazing thread! What do you all think of attending a school that is a private mid tier such as LMU that boasts a great health pre-professional program with a 90% plus med school acceptance rate? Son is deciding between there, UCLA, USC, and UCB. Great merit aid at LMU!</p>
<p>Wouldn’t the “90% acceptance rate” be of those who apply to medical school? Many pre-meds do not bother applying after realizing that it would be futile after getting “low” grades (like B grades) in pre-med courses.</p>
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<p>Private colleges offer a lot that publics cannot, so if the price is right…of course the downside is that if da boy changes his mind about med school, he has a degree from LMU when he could have had one from the best public in the world.</p>
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<p>They are fudging their numbers, by including DO schools and the Caribbean in the numerator. They are also likely discouraging low stat kids from applying by refusing to give them a rec, and reducing the denominator. (Holy Cross has this practice)</p>
<p>Can any current premeds in bioengineering or chemical engineering tell me how hard getting an A is, especially in the upper division classes?</p>
<p>I’m considering a major transfer from engineering to pure sciences, since it looks like getting a higher GPA in pure sciences is more practical than in engineering.</p>
<p>Yes I believe you are correct UCBalumnus about the 90% acceptance rate being of those who apply. It is my understanding that 70% of pre-meds in general at all colleges end up never applying at all. Bluebayou yes the price is right-much less than UCB. You make a great point which has concerned me from the beginning “what if” da boy changes his mind. LMU assured us they were not including DO schools or any Caribbean/Mexico med schools. Hadn’t thought of the Holy Cross strategy. Thank you both very much for your input. We are doing the admit days at his top four choices (UCLA this Saturday, LMU this Sunday, UCB the following Saturday, and USC the Saturday after that). He was just up at UCB 3 weeks ago but I thought it important to go to their admit day program and it falls at the beginning of his spring break. And of course don’t even get me started on the three schools that waitlisted him!</p>
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<p>Which science? Be aware that biology and chemistry tend to have poor job and career prospects if you do not get into medical school. See <a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm</a> .</p>
<p>[National</a> Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://www.gradeinflation.com%5DNational”>http://www.gradeinflation.com) seems to think that, nationwide, science grades are even less inflated than engineering grades (with humanities the most inflated). Of course, Berkeley may or may not match the nationwide trend.</p>
<p>This question was asked in a tour of a Eastern College. The Answer: Take Hard Classes and Get all As!!</p>