Absolutely true!
Oh, and I guess you don’t seem to understand the magnitude of the numbers of students, in California, applying to med schools.
At my daughter’s UC, there were 1000 graduates in her College of Biological Sciences. That happens twice a year there. So assume a minimum of 2K grads, prepping for CA med school programs, every year from her school alone. That does not include all of the students graduating in other majors who are also planning on applying to CA med schools.
Now, multiply that number by just the UC’s, (x9 schools)=18000 grads per year.
(Don’t forget to include the students from previous years who are working on their MCATs and volunteer hours, who didn’t get in the first time.)
Don’t forget that the CSUs have 23 campuses. I don’t know how many of those students are planning on applying to CA med schools.
My daughter’s class accepted 120ish students in her year. Many of those students were from out of state.
The med schools look for those students who gel and fit together because they will be working together under very stressful conditions.
My daughter’s class was very tight and supportive especially since they were present in the hospital when Covid brought in a cruise ship full of patients to San Francisco.
California does not have a plethora of med schools. A number of her classmates, in her undergrad program, did not get in. If you don’t have the right grades, scores, LOR’s, foreign language fluency, and hours with the medically indigent, your chances will be extremely slim in California.