UCSD or UCR? (GE's, time and money)

zeebzibah
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:01:13 +0000

The reason why premeds take Bio majors is because it basically fulfills all med school prereq requirements. What I’m saying is that it won’t take you any extra time to graduate from UCSD rather than UCR (if you plan on taking an average courseload and graduating in 4 years). I was a transfer student, didn’t start taking premed coursework until my sophomore year, had no AP credit, most of my classes didn’t transfer when I came to UCSD, but at the end of my 3rd year (total), I’ll still be done with all premed requirements, and I could graduate with a bio major in 4 total years with two quarters of 12 unit courseloads next year.

Also, I’m no expert on med school admissions, but if you try very hard on MMW and get great grades, that would reflect well upon you in the admissions process. You need to have writing classes for med school anyways, so you would have to take some kind of writing at UCR too. And in most schools, you have to take a foreign language anyways. I’m guessing you have compared GE’s and UCR’s are more lax, but I doubt they are different enough to warrant going to UCR just because of GE’s.

The money issue is totally your call though; I’m just giving you insight on GE’s and stuff.