UCSB vs. UCI for med school?

aunt_bea
Sun, 31 May 2020 21:31:32 +0000

If you were a psych major at UCR, there would be difficulty in getting into some premed required classes, unless you had worked with an HPAC counselor. I am assuming that you didn’t seek out their help.

Pre-health advisors in the Health Professions Advising Center (HPAC) are highly skilled and resourced to discuss and advise on most issues regarding pre-health admissions criteria. Advisors spend a great deal of time discussing pre-health course requirements, co-curricular involvement, personal statement review, professional test preparation, and much more.
If you have not seen an HPAC advisor or have questions regarding a pre- health path, please contact HPAC to set up an appointment.

https://se.ucr.edu/sites/g/files/rcwecm586/files/2019-02/HPAC%20Health%20Career%20Prereqs%201-15-2019.pdf

UCR is a good school for giving you an advantage into their med school if that REALLY is your goal. They have an early assurance program. The other UC’s, with med schools, tend to look everywhere for the best students. A lot of their admitted students are NOT from the local UC’s. There are no guarantees that transferring into UCI or UCSB will give you any type of advantage for admission to a med school. It will be even more competitive. I get that UCR is kind of a “sleepy” campus, but they are strong in medicine and they have a variety of patient cases. My daughter is at UCSF-SOM. Most of her classmates were not from UC’s. A number of them were from CSU’s and then everywhere else in the US.
You do realize that SB does not have an affiliated hospital? UCI will be very, very competitive and “looks” like a commuter campus at times.