<p>vc08,</p>
<p>I suggest you give a link saying UCLA premed is top 3-5 in the nation, which sounds ridiculous if you use your head to think about it for 0.5 minutes. </p>
<p>I don’t know where you got your information, but according to what I heard from a USC staff whose S1 was doing premed at UCLA, it is different from what you just said. They told me, at UCLA, research opportunities are hard to come by, and students are left on their own. <em>Many</em> students drop off the program, and say bye-bye to their dreams. Even you stick it to the end, more than half of premeds at UCLA can not get into med schools in their first or second try. However, if you keep trying, you can eventually get somewhere. So it is not all bad. </p>
<p>Considering how they loved UCLA (if her son chose USC, the tuition will be free. But they still chose UCLA), I think their accounts are very credible.</p>