UCLA vs Texas for Pre-med?

confused_senior2
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:41:02 +0000

Yeah, I honestly think I like UT wayyy better than UCLA, but I’m just worried that UT doesn’t have enough name outside of Texas. I know that it has a relatively similar peer assessment score to UCLA, but no one I know outside of the US has heard of UT (while everyone has heard of UCLA), and the only people that knew what Texas was that I talked to were people that lived in TX/the near south, people in engineering, or my friends that looked at specific department rankings. That’s my dilemma between the two. UCLA is way more prestigious FWIW, and it might be hard to turn that down.

Can anyone comment on UT’s rep outside of Texas, and even internationally?

EDIT: Btw, that acceptance rate seems really, really low. Only 51% of people that make it through all the weeders, etc. get in? Does anyone know what UCLA’s is?