<p>Going from CC --> UC</p>
<p>What is considered a competitive GPA? Anything 3.7+ ?</p>
<p>I heard a 4.0 is pretty good.</p>
<p>ignore edbraga. while hes obviously making a true statement im pretty sure its not what you were looking for</p>
<p>it depends on the UC and the major. from my experience (which is mainly research, and no experience, since im a CC student right now) ive seen the UCs divided thusly:</p>
<p>Berkeley and LA
competitive majors: 3.7-4.0</p>
<p>Irvine, Davis, SD, SB: 3.5ish
(I would rank these but theres just SO MUCH debate)</p>
<p>Merced: 3.2</p>
<p>IT REALLY REALLY DEPENDS ON THE MAJOR.</p>
<p>^^^^ easy tiger </p>
<p>Berkeley & LA
Competitive majors: 3.7+, Non-Competitive: 3.5+</p>
<p>Irvine,Davis, SB: 3.0+ (Guaranteed with TAG) </p>
<p>Merced: Show up and sign the dotted line?</p>
<p>Wait, your post seems to be asking two different questions. Are you talking about GPA before applying to med school? or GPA before applying to UC from a CC?</p>
<p>4.0 is the only way to go.</p>
<p>^^ lol what about the people with 3.9’s that get accepted over the 4.0s? … I read a thread awhile back that talked about how more applicants with just less than a 4.0 had a higher acceptance rate or something along those lines.</p>
<p>The question the OP is asking is what GPA he needs in C.C to be competitive to get into Med school i would assume. There is no point to do pre-med if your not going to med school.</p>
<p>4.0 in C.C and if you count in a .4 gpa drop in the final 2 years for a 3.8 average total then you have a good shot at med school</p>
<p>You really should have a 4.0 or around 3.9, because medical schools don’t really consider community college classes as intuitive and challenging as a 4-year university’s. It is, however, wrong to base chances of admission on GPA, because there are other factors that are as important as GPA, factors a pre-med should have known since high school.<br>
Additionally, once you have transferred to a 4-year, your major plays a role, if you are majoring in an easy discipline such as psychology, political science, arts or any of that sort, it should be expected for you to have a near 4.0 GPA. Contrastingly, if you are majoring in engineering and have a 3.8 GPA, that is a stellar GPA for medical school admission.</p>
<p>even with ~4.0 you better have some pretty lookin EC’s/experience on that app straight from JC</p>
<p>So, if I applied as a Phil major with a 3.74 GPA and I mentioned that I want to go the premed route in my Personal Statement, this will hurt my chances?</p>
<p>Also, I have 0, yes 0 of the premed requirements done (exempting English). Will this severely affect my chaces at say Berkeley?</p>
<p>I also have all prereqs done with A’s, and an upward trend. Let me know what you guys think. </p>
<p>What’s even sicker is that if I get rejected because I said I want to be premed (child psychiatry), it won’t even be applicable to my current situation. I no longer even want to go to med school :/. I’m thinking Organizational Behavior.</p>
<p>It won’t hurt your chances at getting into pre-med but i’m just saying if your going into pre-med that naturally means your going to want to go to med school. </p>
<p>Med schools don’t value 4.0 from C.C as much as from U.C, and other Universities. So if you consider how many people apply to Med schools and have near 4.0’s and 38+ mcat scores to make yourself competitive your going to need a near 4.0 at C.C and near 4.0 at UC. </p>
<p>The stories you hear of 3.1 gpa and med school usually mean they did their undergrad at a non-grade inflated school ala John Hopkins or Stanford and the admin officers know that.</p>
<p>Okay peterr86, so just to clarify even though I don’t have any real premed requirements done and have a sorta low GPA for med school (3.74 currently), these things won’t hurt my chances right?</p>
<p>I mean I was trying to be strategic by taking my premed courses at a UC. By doing this, I was hoping to be a more competitive applicant to med school, however, I’m thinking that maybe this will hinder my chances at the UC undergrad of my choice, Berkeley…</p>
<p>Maybe…just maybe I’m being a paranoid applicant anxiously waiting for his fate to be briefly determined by the admissions dept.</p>
<p>Oh, and by not hurting my chaces (above), I mean not hurting my chances for UCB undergrad.</p>
<p>Go to med school…abroad. There has been numerous times that I’ve seen/heard that CC people are often looked down upon by med school admissions officers. Go get a 4.0!</p>
<p>I’m confused… pre-med is not a major… so asking about pre-med doesn’t make sense (to me). In order to transfer you have to finish the pre-requisites for your MAJOR. PRe-med simply means you will complete the pre-reqs that medical schools require in order to apply along with whatever classes you need to take to graduate with your degree.</p>
<p>umm if you go to med school abroad you will NOT be able practice medicine in the US (well, not immediately)</p>
<p>@ andrewexd, I’m not sure if you were referring to me, or just in general, but there are premed requirements and major requirements. I have my major requirements completed. However, I know the UC’s…well at least Berk like to get you in and out ASAP. </p>
<p>That being said, I’m wondering if having absolutely no (other than English reqs) done for an aspiring premed (phil major) will negatively affect my chaces of getting into Berkeley because (obviously) it will take me a while to graduate with all of those requirements to fulfill.</p>
<p>^
Well, if you’re serious about med school, and no one accepts you, you’re better off going abroad. </p>
<p>After all, you just want to be in med school…and become a practitioner.</p>
<p>@emilsinclair9</p>
<p>If your major is philosphy, you ONLY need those pre-reqs to transfer. Berkely will not care about your plan to get into med school. You transfer as a philosphy major then you take your philosphy classes and your pre-med classes. Your pre-med science classes are not required to graduate with a philosphy degree, thus schools don’t care if you plan on taking those pre-med science classes after you transfer.</p>