<p>SDTB- Berkeley being larger isn’t the point. The point is core. Caltech requires certain things of all students, and Berkeley doesn’t; as a pre-med you are going to be taking a lot of courses at Caltech that you wouldn’t at Berkeley. </p>
<p>[Career</a> Center - Medical School - Preparation](<a href=“http://career.berkeley.edu/Medical/PrepAcad.stm]Career”>http://career.berkeley.edu/Medical/PrepAcad.stm) <– That’s Berkeley’s suggested pre-med track. Take a look at the math and physics requirements! You’ve got one year of each, (vs. Caltech’s almost two) and if you bother to look at the syllabi you’ll see that the math and physics these pre-meds are supposed to take are barely above high-school level. Breadth essentially refers to the things you study outside what you need to study from (in this case) the point of med school admissions. In a sense, Caltech is both “broader and deeper” at the same time depending on how you look at it: Is learning more physics depth in physics, even if the subtopic is something largely irrelevant to the major? For example, is quantum mechanics depth or breadth?</p>
<p>In any case, I have a feeling we’re going to get bogged down in semantics. The point is that you will be forced to learn more in math and science here than you will be at Berkeley, and the curriculum is obviously much more set up for students attempting to be pre-med to expand their knowledge in these areas.</p>