Here is UCB medical school acceptance data from their website.
It seems nearly 50-60% students from the table below get in to a medical school without any gap year from UCB. Not that bad at all in IMO.
Highlights of Cal medical school applicants:
The majority of Cal applicants take at least 1 gap year before entering medical school. For most applicants, this timeline means applying after spring of their senior (or final) year at Cal.
Cal applicants have consistently higher acceptance rates than the national average.
Across all MCAT scores, Cal applicants with a cumulative GPA of 3.60 or higher are more likely than not to be accepted.
Cal applicants represent a variety of majors, within and outside of the biological sciences, and across all colleges, including Letters & Science, Engineering, Public Health, and Natural Resources.
UC Berkeley First-Time Applicants: Acceptance Rates by Class Year, 2015-2019
APPLICATION YEAR: 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
CLASS OF 2015:
Acceptees/Applicants
Acceptance Rate
49.4% 38/77
62.5% 95/152
57.4% 81/141
38.2% 21/55
40.7% 11/27
CLASS OF 2016:
Acceptees/Applicants
Acceptance Rate
62.7% 47/75
65.5% 97/148
58.1% 61/105
45.6% 26/57
CLASS OF 2017:
Acceptees/Applicants
Acceptance Rate
N/A
N/A
53.0% 35/66
55.5% 91/164
67.1% 100/149
67.1%
CLASS OF 2018:
Acceptees/Applicants
Acceptance Rate
N/A
N/A
N/A
59.5% 22/37
65.0% 93/143
65.0%
CLASS OF 2019:
Acceptees/Applicants
Acceptance Rate
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
58.8% 30/51
Note: Data is for the ~85% of annual applicants to MD programs who, through AMCAS, give permission for their application information to be released to UC Berkeley. Class year includes December, May, and August graduates of each academic year.