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Berkeley's pre-med acceptance rate (for its undergrads) is around 66% while UCSD's is around 45-50%. The national average is about 50%. Sorry but pre-med is tough everywhere.
Career Center - Medical School Statistics
Professional & Graduate School: Pre-Medical Data
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I think it should be pointed out that the Berkeley data is relatively 'inflated' in the sense that it only includes that of
recent graduates (that is, those who graduated in the previous year), whereas the UCSD and nationwide data includes
all graduates. You should also be able to deduce this information by seeing that, according to the data, UCSD apparently has about 3x the number of premed applicants that Berkeley does, despite the fact that UCSD actually has fewer students overall. That's because, again, Berkeley doesn't include all of those previous grads who apply to med school. There are plenty of people who apply to med school over and over again, year after year, and never get in.
While I don't want to sound overly cynical, I find this to be a case of deceptive marketing on the part of Berkeley. If Berkeley wants to look at only the recent grads, that's fine. But then Berkeley should be comparing them to the
nationwide recent grads. Otherwise, Berkeley should be publishing the data regarding
all of its grads. The structure of the comparison right now is comparing 2 entirely different things.