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Cal weeds out a lot more applicants in the sciences than the private schools who are much more invested in keeping students in their chosen fields <a href=“with%20the%20exception%20of%20some%20pre-med%20programs”>b</a> ** to justify the private advantage.
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<p>How can that be? The pre-med pre-reqs are often the same classes as the early STEM classes. They’re all taking classes like Gen Chem, Cal, Bio, Physics. It’s not like the privates say, “hmmm…that kid is Bio, but not pre-med, so we won’t weed him.”</p>