USC or UCLA for Pre-Med?

drax12
Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:51:56 +0000

One of the reasons why UC wants to admit transfers, besides the state charter which integrates the three higher educational systems, is because of a late blooming potential.

You can say whatever you want about Ivies taking those of higher grades and scores, but not all children scholastically mature at the same rate and at age 15-17.

And a lot of this late-blooming potential is brought forth by poor educational environment. A university can indeed bring this out, as a student finds his niche. I’m sure it’s a tricky business finding whichever students have this latent potential, but one has to applaud UCLA and Cal for trying to find these types. Both could admit a higher achieving group on the lower end, but the student body would be all wealthy and much less diverse. (Not saying I agree to the extend that to which both, particularly UCLA, engage this.)