| Well, well...I just did a Google search on UC Merced accreditation and this thread came up. I couldn't keep quiet, I registered just to give my opinion on this matter. Take my word for it, you don't know what I had to go through during the last 2 years because of this ****.
To the OP, if you are a pre-med student -- do NOT even consider UC Merced. You have no idea what you're in for. Long story short, no med school out of state will take you because of the accreditation issue and you're drastically reducing your choices of med schools to only SOME CA med schools. But I'm assuming you will be a freshman in Fall 2008 and the accreditation decision is due June 2011 so you may get lucky and apply to med school at the perfect time. Still though, it would be a newly accredited school and still looked down upon.
Do NOT let anyone fool you about accreditation not mattering. Maybe if you're not a pre-med student, it doesn't matter as MUCH but it still matters. And again, if you are pre-med, forget about UCM.
That's my rant for now, if you have any specific questions go ahead and PM me. I can answer any questions you may have on this issue cuz trust me, I did some extensive research. Let's just say that the results of my research are making me transfer to a much better, more recognized UC this upcoming Fall. I don't wanna go into specifics online because I caused quite a ****storm in the Natural Sciences department with my comments and the staff are NOT happy with me to say the least. |