Okay, not a whole lot of instate residents get aid from UCD so it makes it difficult for most families.
How will you pay for med school? It’s not free, no matter how hard you think you can work; money does not fall off of trees.
WOWMom can give you more accurate costs but right now, you need to save upwards of $200K, minimum.
My daughter attended and graduated from Davis. She had a hard time in freshman classes but eventually graduated with a degree in NPB (Neurophysiology, Biology and Behavioral Science) and loved her upper division profs! She graduated with 999 other med school hopefuls.
Not only do you have to get the grades, you also need the exposure to the medical community around you. When will you do that in your CC?
My daughter was able to work in several Davis labs; she received her LOR’s from those supervisors.
She also volunteered in a free diabetes clinic in Sacramento and took vitals, medical histories, prepped labs and did intake. Davis has a med school accessible to its students. As a Davis student, you would have had priority for positions in the clinics and in the hospitals.
Did you really think this through?
You seem to be defensive and pretending to know EVERYTHING and so much more than posters who have seen their kids become physicians. Re read through the advice and take heart, you don’t know everything, otherwise, why post questions if you don’t care to hear the responses?