UCLA - AHHH!!!! nervous...

Icarus
Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:11:09 +0000

I’ll just comment on the pre-med stuff - Its only competative because the pre-med requisites are huge classes and you have to compete to be on the good end of the curve. I haven’t met too many students that fall into the nasty-premed stereotype, so don’t worry about it. I’ve heard statistics that UCLA students send out more applications for med school spots than any other university in the nation, so thats another factor working against us UCLA pre-meds. Like I said, don’t sweat it - getting into med school isn’t at all a numbers game. I know people with ridiculously high GPAs and MCAT scores who didn’t get into any med school because they had nothing else on their resume. Enjoy college, get involved, and do well in your classes, and its all good.
You’ll find that everyone and their mom comes into UCLA as “pre-med”, but that number drops dramatically as people who thought they wanted to be doctors find the multitude of other options that suddenly becomes clear in college or realize that the process is too difficult for their tastes, etc.
Good luck with everything.