<p>Admitted to USC & UCLA & good chance to UCB. I’m OOS (Idaho) with no financial aid offered by UCLA. I probably will pay full cost (tuition & expenses) going to any of the schools. My plan is going to a Med school. Which school should I pick & why?</p>
<p>in your case, i’d pick the one that i’d have the highest gpa at</p>
<p>I would go to USC. If your going to have to pay out of state tuition, it is going to be expensive, you might as well go to a private school with smaller classes. Plus USC has a program where you are admitted right into there pre-med program as a Freshman. I don’t know if you were accepted into that, but if you were, it saves you from having to apply to med school.</p>
<p>I would go to UCLA. It has an outstanding pre Med and Med school. You will have a higher chance of getting into thier med school if you were a pre med there. Also, after 12-24 months of living in Calf. you can change your status to instate and save a bunch of $$$ on tuition.</p>
<p>i say cal! i live out here and cal is truly an amazing school i really think you would like it here. but i guess it depends on the person you are. if you want more of like a smaller school with smaller classes and stuff then usc but if you want something different then cal.</p>
<p>Just a note on:
jwhitepa, establishing residency for in-state tuition at the UCs is very difficult. You cannot, for example, attend college while you are establishing residency, so you would have to move to California more than a full year before starting college. You also must be financially independant - you would have to show that you have an income sufficient to pay rent, food, utilities and tuition **with no help from parents **or other relatives. The rules are specifically set up to make it very difficult for out of state students to establish residency.</p>
<p>Details here: [UCLA</a> Registrar’s Office: Residence for Tuition Purposes–Establishing Residence](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/residence/establish.htm]UCLA”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/residence/establish.htm)</p>
<p>I’d choose Berkeley! Its a very good school in many aspects, like academics and sports; its very competitive too, but personally, I think its a bang for your bucks, even if your out of state. Your tuition would be a little under that of a private school, right? I hope you get in, because I know its harder for OOS people!</p>
<p>Thank you all. I will visit the schools & talk to the counselors during spring break next week.</p>
<p>jwhitepa got another thing wrong. You will not get preferential treatment when you apply for med-school even you did 2 pre-med there.</p>
<p>All are great schools. Congrats! If you are thinking about either of the UC’s, especially with OOS tuition, one consideration might be whether you can get into all of the classes that you need in order to graduate in four years. With cutbacks in the state budget, through no fault of the UC’s themselves, there is concern about looming cutbacks in available courses. Do ask questions and post on the UC boards before making your final choice. There seems to be a lot of buzz about UC students having difficulties getting all of their classes in the four year framework, but it’s not clear if this affects the pre-med curriculum, and if so, to what extent. Be sure to find out before signing on the dotted line.</p>