Cal or UCSD for biotech??

[appelle]

<p>So I have already SIR’d to UCSD for biotech with regents. Today UC Berkeley accepted my appeal for starting spring semester for bioengineering. </p>

<p>My question is: is Berkeley worth starting a semester late and not having regents, specifically for bioengineering which UCSD excels at. All opinions appreciated, especially if you know about starting a semester late.</p>

[FellowCCViewer]

<p>The reality of it: Yes.
Plus, you’ll probably have better pre-req grades than others.</p>

[Columbia_Student]

<p>No. UCSD with Regents is a lot better than Cal Spring admit. You are in the top students at UCSD while you are not at Cal. Stay with UCSD.</p>

[appelle]

<p>What about the bioengineering program at the two schools? And what does better pre-reqs mean?</p>

[Columbia_Student]

<p>I only have ranking for graduate. Usually the undergraduate is very close to the graduate program. UCSD is better than UCB</p>

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Biomedical/Bioengineering
Ranked in 2008
1 Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD 4.7
2 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 4.6
**University of California–San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA 4.6 **
4 Duke University Durham, NC 4.5
5 University of Washington Seattle, WA 4.3
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 4.2
7 Boston University Boston, MA 4.0
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 4.0
9 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 3.9
Rice University (Brown) Houston, TX 3.9
**11 University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA 3.8 **
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 3.8
13 Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL 3.7
Stanford University Stanford, CA 3.7
15 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 3.6
University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 3.6
17 Washington University in St. Louis (Sever) St. Louis, MO 3.5
18 Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY 3.4
University of Texas–Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX 3.4
20 Purdue University–West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN 3.3
University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 3.3
University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI 3.3
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 3.3
24 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 3.2
25 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 3.1
University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN 3.1
27 Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA 3.0
Texas A&M University–College Station (Look) College Station, TX 3.0
University of California–Davis Davis, CA 3.0
University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA 3.0
31 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 2.9
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 2.9
33 Arizona State University (Fulton) Tempe, AZ 2.8
CUNY–City College (Grove) New York, NY 2.8
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 2.8
Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 2.8
Marquette University Milwaukee, WI 2.8
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ 2.8
Yale University New Haven, CT 2.8
40 University of California–Irvine (Samueli) Irvine, CA 2.7
University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 2.7
University of Maryland–College Park (Clark) College Park, MD 2.7
University of Rochester Rochester, NY 2.7
44 Brown University Providence, RI 2.6
Clemson University Clemson, SC 2.6
SUNY–Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 2.6
University of Alabama–Birmingham Birmingham, AL 2.6
University of California–Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA 2.6
University of Illinois–Chicago Chicago, IL 2.6
50 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 2.5

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