UCLA vs Texas for Pre-med?

UcMichigan
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:43:14 +0000

Hey, you want to go into medicine right? Trust me, the prestige of your college means nothing to medical schools. Try to take the med school acceptance rate lightly. If you work hard, you’ll get into medical schools…whether you’re at UT or UCLA.
But yea, why are you concerned with the name? Medical schools could care less if you went to UT. To them, a 4.0 GPA at UT is the same as a 4.0 GPA at UCLA. Believe me, if you’re aiming for a top medical school outside TX, it doesn’t matter where you graduate.

Here’s UCLA (look at the bachelor’s part)
[UCLA Career Center](http://career.ucla.edu/GraduateSchool&PreProfessionalServices/UCLAFourYrMedSchoolAdmissionsHistory.asp)

since that’s 05 for UCLA, here’s 06 for UT … since it’s closer than the 07 one I showed you earlier.
http://cns.utexas.edu/hpo/File/files/MedStatsVer11.pdf

Besides, if you want higher acceptance rates, smaller schools are the way to go. But again, if you work hard enough, you’ll get into medical schools… Most of how you’ll do is based off the amount of work you put in. Don’t based your decision off of the numbers.

Both TX and CA have tons of medical schools…but once again, UCLA is verryy competitive. That’s the main reason I didn’t apply in the first place.
Let me say this once more. Medical schools don’t care about the prestige of your school. PICK where you’ll be happiest and where you think your grades can be highest.