“UCLA has more applicants to medical school than any other college”
This is the reason why UCLA is the better choice.
If you look at the number of applicants that are UCLA graduates, you will see that it is a disproportionate amount. This is because of the stellar education given to these students that prepares them for the MCAT and medical school. Not to mention the plethora of research and extracurricular activities that these students participate in.
Last year alone UCLA sent 1,199 applicants for medical school compared to Yale and Princeton which sent 191, and 133, respectively.(Source: https://www.aamc.org/media/9636/download)
On average UCLA students that applied to medical school was 1,000 applicants each year between 2015-2019. Of those almost 500 each year on average got accepted to medical school. This is a 50% acceptance rate for UCLA graduates, (Source: UCLA Applicants Medical School Admission Data | Student Affairs Information & Research Office)
Students aren’t spoon fed at UCLA, students learn to take the initiative, their education prepares them for medical school.
Even at UCDavis School of Medicine in 2022 admission cycle, the amount of accepted applicants that came from the UC system is 67%, of that 25% of the accepted applicants came from UCLA, compared to the 36% that were UC Davis graduates. (Source: https://health.ucdavis.edu/mdprogram/admissions/pdfs/Admissions%20at%20a%20Glance%2018-19.pdf)
UCLA is the better choice!