<p>I’m currently a second year at berkeley with chemE major. The thing is I changed my mind to be pre-med but my gpa is not as good compared other pre-med sophomores since I had to take all the more difficult and competitive classes like math 53 54 and way more difficult college of chemistry classes. The only way i can be as competitive as other pre-med students are that I basically have to get straight A’s from now on which is almost impossible unless i change my major to some easier pre-med major… maybe public health?. </p>
<p>So my bottom line is
can i quit berkeley and get into other UC like UCI or UCSD and start as a freshman? without any transfer of grades from cal? is this even possible? if i quit berkeley, should i apply like a high school senior? or is there some other way?</p>
<p>Is this even a good idea to do? i know you will say crazy but I suddently want to go to med school or other medicine-related grad schools. I just want to know if anyone has thought about this crazy thing ever. thanks.</p>
<p>You can reapply as a high school senior. My friend did that before lol, but he never went through with it.
He was a senior in ucr and he took SAT’s and stuff again and reapplied as high school senior. he got accepted by berkeley, but later told the school he’s not really an incoming freshman, not sure what would have happen if he attended though… lol.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s possible. If you reapply and lie about attending college previously, they’ll find out about it, especially if you went to a UC already.</p>
<p>unless you quit school for like a few years, i don’t think you’ll be able to start as a freshmen. (and by a few years, i would say like 5-10 or until they trash your records)
If you want to go pre-med, then I don’t know. I would just say do it. It’s nothing crazy. People have change of hearts all the time. My gpa isn’t that great as a maybe pre-med sophomore. But as long as you’re not in the dwindling around the 2.0-2.5 range, you still have a considerable amount of time to bump up the gpa, albeit you may have to take a few easy classes to do so.</p>
<p>There are basically three ways out of this situation:
Change your identity. It can be done, even with some degree of ease. Ignore the ethical advice here, they’d all do it in a heartbeat if they were in your shoes.
Do extra work to get into med school. Grad school? Some alternative route like pharmacology? Research it.
Apply to a low-ranked med school. It may be the case that your GPA is so low as to prohibit this too, in which case try one of the above things.</p>
<p>I was in a similar situation and heavily researched whether or not I could reapply to a school as an entering freshman. It didn’t work in 2 schools a state away from each other and it certainly won’t work in the UCs. Sorry, you missed the boat here.</p>
<p>You shouldn’t quit… just find an easier major… remember there’s no “premed” major - you can major in anything and be a premed as long as you’ve taken the required classes… What else interests you? Also, I think for most premeds, the first year isn’t their best year in terms of GPA… as long as you show that upward trend, I think med schools would be understanding.</p>