Pre-med but applying as Philosophy major

WayOutWestMom
Sun, 24 Jul 2022 01:17:12 +0000

RE: The UCs have a much better track record when it comes to med placements than the CSUs. Whether that’s reflective of student interests or the strength of the students relative to their university sites is pretty difficult to tease out.

My older child attended SLO for a year before transferring back to her home state’s flagship. Even then (10-11 years ago) many of science and math classes were impacted and hard to get into if you weren’t a science major. (Some were hard even for science majors.) You might ask on the SLO-specific forum if this is still true. I suspect it is.

If your child ends up applying to OOS med schools (and as aCA college grad that is almost guaranteed to happen since CA is the largest single supplier of med school applicants in country. UCB’s med applicants alone could fill every single CA med school seat --public and private-- and still have applicants leftover) the difference between UCs and CSUs diminishes. I doubt most midwestern/southern med schools will care about a SLO degree vs UC degree.

My guess would be that unless your child is science major of some type, he’s going to shut out of all or nearly all science classes and their labs. Philosophy just isn’t going to work for SLO and med school pre-reqs.