HELP!! UCSD v. UCLA v. UCB

FindmeFazo
Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:36:11 +0000

Well if you feel like you’re leaning more toward medicine I would suggest SD since they have a top notch bio program and you may possibly have a better GPA for med school at SD.
But if you’re unsure or leaning more toward journalism, I think UCLA or UCB would give you better flexibility. I’m no expert since I’m an entering freshman (so correct me if I’m wrong), but I’ve never heard SD being praised so highly in areas outside bio. Meaning if you change your mind about med school, you wouldn’t even have a “fancier” UCLA/UCB degree to fall back on (that is, given your interest DOES change to something LA/B does not excel in). Not that “fancy” is the goal; I think LA/B is better equipped for many more areas because they’re much bigger, whereas SD excels in one or a couple.

Why don’t you try shadowing a doctor or talking to a med student? It’s a big decision, and I guess you do have more time to decide in college, but just a warning that if you’re going in “unsure” you’re gonna be overwhelmed by people whose lifelong dreams were to cauterize hemorrhages in someone’s large intestines at 2 in the morning.

I once thought I wanted to be a surgeon, but I realized there were so many people who wanted to do this so much more than I thought I did and I knew their motivation would win out over mine in the end. Now I’m more interested in research!

Actually now that I think about it, med students come from all kinds of different majors (is what I’ve been hearing around here). You don’t necessarily have to do bio I guess… But it would certainly give you a leg up and you may even get a GPA boost at SD:))

Haha I’m sorry, I don’t think I’ve helped much, but hopefully I’ve given you a couple more pros and cons for each school!

PS- When you said “Cal” I thought you meant Cal Tech!