@bluebayou Thanks so much for your great insight. In hindsight, he should have attended UMiami (he got the scholly money), and he got in to UCSD as well, but for a lot of different reasons the choice fell on UCLA (research experience was unfortunately not something we thought about, since we, the parents, are from overseas and did not realize how important it was for Grad school in the US). He has finished all his UC and STEM prerequisites, apart from Physics and only has a handful of upper level MBio classes left to take, so graduating is not far off. I like the idea of him taking more useful classes where he learns R or maybe Python, and more advanced Statistics while he is still there. Thanks for the suggestion!
@Beaudreau Thanks so much for your reply. What a great program in Germany! I had never heard of it. Unfortunately, I don’t think it will work since it is from mid-May to end of July, and the UCs only finish their Spring quarter mid-June. I will email them though to see if exceptions can be made. Thanks for the suggestion!