Budget cut effects on UCLA?

kwwboarder
Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:34:54 +0000

Whoever told you 5 years is the norm is misinformed. The only majors that I can think that applies to is Engineering. The only thing that will keep you from graduating on time is if you take on another major, change majors, or do poorly and have to retake classes. Honestly UCLA hasn’t changed in any noticeable way since I entered two years ago.

UCLA is a great school for pre-meds because one of the best hospitals in the West, the Reagan Center, is right on campus.

As for biology, it’s one of the easier pre-med majors but is also generally not as relavent to what you’ll be studying in med school. The actual major is Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, so a lot of the focus isn’t on the human body. With that said, the core life science classes that all pre-meds take will cover what you need for the MCATs and you can always take electives in other life science departments. Some of the more popular pre-med majors are (in order of what I think is most popular to least): Psychobiology, Physiological Science; Neuroscience; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; Biology, and Microbiology and Immunology.