<p>RML- because he told me that Berkeley psychology only deals with the social aspects of psych, not the clinical/medical side of psychology.</p>
<p>rml- we have a friend who works in Berkeley, in fact he told me that if you want to become a clinical psychologist, UCLA, UCSD, or UC Davis would be better fits since they have a med center. He suggested me not to go to Berkeley for psychology. </p>
<p>I am applying as a psych major for Berkeley and UCLA. Human development for UC Davis.</p>
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That’s totally is just his/her own opinion. Berkeley Psychology is awesome too. So is a Princeton Psychology degree, for example, despite that Princeton does not have a med school of its own. </p>
<p>At the end of the day, its what you’ll make it out with your degree will what matter. Maybe those UCLA grads whom your friends know well were more persevering that’s why they get into great med schools. But you’d be surprised that several Berkeley psych grads are just are persevering and dedicated.</p>
<p>A little less than three weeks until decisions for Berkeley and UCLA come out.</p>
<p>@RML you sound like an expert in the Business major, so I’ll ask another question :p! For Business major, are there a lot of graphs we have to deal with? I’m currently taking AP Macro, and sometimes the graphs just bug the heck out of me!</p>
<p>hey, wait. Psychology has many branches. you can opt for a clinical psychology if you want to pursue on that route. Or you can do an industrial psychology route, if that’s what you want. but i know Berkeley offers clinical psychology too. Kindly check it out on the department website.</p>
<p>rml-do you think it would be a great idea to have UCSF be part of the UC Berkeley campus. If that happens, Berkeley would have a med-school, dental-school, pharmacy school. That would sound perfect!</p>
<p>In other words, merge UCSF and Berkeley together. Think about it UC Berkeley school of medicine.</p>
<p>RML- its kind of like how the UC Davis medical school is not in davis but in sacramento.</p>
<p>MisterB7K, I did not attend Berkeley. I earned my CS undergrad at the University of Cambridge in England. My knowledge about business was primarily acquired from a master’s level program which I took at London Business School (LBS). I did an exchange program at Stanford but it only lasted for a few months as exchange programs are usually short. Whilst in California, i hanged out mostly with Berkeley peeps. It’s my wife who attended Berkeley undergrad actually and graduated with an economics degree. She ended up working for a Bank in London and eventually acquired an MBA from Judge Business School, Cambridge. I do am somehow involved with a few institutions that have students who want to study in the US or UK. So, if you want to know specifics and details about the Haas undergrad curriculum, I’m afraid I’m not the best resource for that. :D</p>
<p>Pinoiako916, it’s a great idea and I wonder why the past and current UC president did not make a move to merge them together.</p>
<p>I really think you’re reading a little too much into the emphases of these schools, believe me, you won’t be ‘turned away and banished’ from clinical graduate programs if you graduated from freaking Berkeley psychology. Just pick the school you enjoy more and can be happy at for 4 years and then kill when you get here/there.</p>
<p>Rename UCSF Med Center, UC Berkeley Med Center. Perfect! Probably when the economy gets better then hopefully they may think about it. </p>
<p>Wasnt UCSF orginally UC Berkeleys med school back when the UC system was created?</p>
<p>@ncb316, are you as psychology major?</p>
<p>These are my stats:</p>
<p>Major: Psychology, Human Development (UC Davis)
College American River college in sacramento
UC GPA: 3.84 (upward trend, non-stop 4.0 semesters since fall of 2008)</p>
<p>Fall 2007 - 3.50
Spring 2008 - 3.50
Fall 2008 - 4.00
Spring 2009 - 4.00
Summer 2009- 4.00
Fall 2009- 4.00
Spring 2010 - 4.00
Fall 2010 - 4.00</p>
<p>Major GPA: 4.00
Applying to: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis
Prereqs: All but one which will be done by the spring of 11’ for Davis and Berkeley. Done for UCLA.
IGETC: Done
TAG/TAP: UC Davis TAG</p>
<p>EC’s:
- Volunteer at a adult day care center and at a mental care facility, helped Alzheimer patients with mental exercises like playing board games, helping them do art work, assisted the physical therapist in leading exercises with patients with all kinds of mental difficiencies, assisted in walking and physical therapy with patients.
- Volunteer at a telephone reassurance program, talking to isolated older adults who need someone to talk to and provide emotional support.
- General and Social Psychology tutor in the summer of 08’. Chemistry tutor during the spring of 09’ led beacon tutoring in an integrated organic/biochem class. Helped out fellow students mentally raise their grades from failing to passing grades.
- Puente club and MESA member.</p>
<p>Yes, and [UC</a> Berkeley TRSP](<a href=“http://reentry.berkeley.edu/prospective.htm]UC”>http://reentry.berkeley.edu/prospective.htm) go here and get into the Starting Point Mentorship Program for Cal. It’s just another positive for your application and the essay review session is helpful.</p>
<p>@ncb316, are you going to cal day?</p>
<p>What advantages do you believe the UC’s have over Vanderbilt other than the higher worldwide prestige and greater concentration on research?</p>
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<p>[High</a> Impact Universities | Worldwide Faculty Rankings | Results for 2010](<a href=“http://www.highimpactuniversities.com/fac1.html]High”>http://www.highimpactuniversities.com/fac1.html)</p>
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<p>this is pretty true. Berkeley, although it’s lacking a medical school, is still one of the most prestigious universities in the world. It won’t be to your detriment to go there. My last example had mainly to do with the quality of research/researchers one might have access to.</p>
<p>Beyphy, that ranking you linked has UCLA so much higher than Berkeley, simply by virtue of UCLA having med and other health sciences schools as part of the name. That ranking has UCSF in third place, and UCSF med school is ranked higher than UCLA’s.</p>
<p>In reality, Berkeley pre-meds have the same opportunity to intern at UCSF as UCLA’s at UCLA med. Berkeley pre-meds have at least as a good a rate of admission to top and other med schools as UCLA (perhaps even slightly better). UCLA’s advantage here is that med school is right on campus, while Berkeley pre-meds need to take a short BART ride to get to UCSF.</p>
<p>Bottom line is both schools are about equally good for pre-med, and people should look at other factors when choosing between the two, like which campus they like better, etc…</p>
<p>@concerned dad- is clinical psychology a health science or a social science?</p>