UCD VS. UCLA for life science/pre-health?

ADHDFTL
Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:12:22 +0000

I’m still waiting on 2 colleges ( 3 if UCSD ever gets its **** together and allows me to apply after they lost my app) but UCD is actually really strong for bio/pre-professional especially for pre-med. I’m not sure about pharmacy schools but for med schools you basically must have a 3.6+ regardless of the university you are attending. This, combined with their reluctance to accept a bunch of students from the same university, makes UCD very appealing. Apparently getting the requisite 3.6+ and having time to study for the MCAT is very doable at davis. I think at UCLA you would have more people going to it because it’s in LA ( similar to NYU ) which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it’s something to keep in mind.

Something people on college confidential don’t like to think about: undergrad doesn’t matter if you’re going to grad school and grad schools often only really look at GPA and what you’ve done (research etc.) By going to a less competitive school you’ll get a higher GPA, stand out more to professors ( for LoR and research) and pay 20-120k less.

IMO it only really makes sense to go to higher up schools if they’re liberal artsy/have an emphasis on undergrad teaching. UCLA and UCD are the same in that aspect.