I am a freshman. I’ve heard of freshmen in college fail and med schools are lenient and they want to see improvement. I’m not trying to go to a top tier med school, just any medical school. I don’t think that the name of the school determines the quality of the Doctor.
Just as the name of the school (UC Davis) doesn’t determine the quality of professors and teaching. The professors here are horrible, everyone of my high school teachers taught me much more efficiently than these professors. The professors I had at community college were also better. I came to UC Davis because I assumed the education would be superior, but I quickly realized that the education is actually inferior to the education I could receive at my community college in smaller classes. In my opinion all UC stands for is the name. Their focus is on research and I’ve realized they don’t care much about their students. I try to go to get help to clarify concepts in my classes, but the instructors don’t know how to teach, their training is in research and not teaching. They basically just point to pages in the book. Yes I do figure out how to solve the problem, but I don’t understand what’s important, the concepts.
So, I did take this class pass/fail. Only because I didn’t want to stress about a grade, because I am going to have to stress about the grade I will get in my semester system chemistry course. I didn’t want to stress about it twice.