How hard is it to get into UCSF med school from Berkeley?

DRab
Thu, 15 Jun 2006 03:49:15 +0000

sakky, do you know how freshmen and sophomore seminars are creaeted each semester? A faculty member applies to teach it, as far as I know (as in not because a departmet make him or her), voluntarily. Now L and S allowed him to it, sure, but it’s not as if they ran to him in particular begging him to teach seminars.

Then you expand to the math department. Then the university. “The way Berkeley runs its undergraduate teaching . . .” I really am not sure what that means in this context. As far as I’ve heard, prof evaluations are used primarily to hinder or help advance salary increases- profs with terrible evaluations get raises at a much slower pace than those with positive evaluations. I bet they have some influence on tenure as well. In addition, many departments (most notably the college of engineering) release some of this data to students. Could Berkeley (its departments and administration) hire and fire based on these? Sure. Could they do even more than that, or more than they do now about 'em? Sure. But this is a small thing, perhaps indicative or more, but clearly not in any self-evident manner. Do I think you could find other examples of undergraduates not being the first thing on some, maybe even many aspects of Berkeley? Probably. Do I think every prof and administrator has undergraduate teaching as their primary or sole idea at any moment? No. Do I think this is true at Harvard or Stanford? Also a big no. More there than at Berkeley? Depends. Do I think that because X does something Berkeley should? No, sakky, I don’t, but lets look at things in perspective.