•••quote:•••Originally posted by UCLA Paratrooper:
•Hey!
I'm apply to medical school this summer and I was just wondering if there were any UCLA graduates that can tell me how medical schools view the undergraduate education at UCLA. How much more difficult are the classes at Medical School than they were at UCLA? Thanks!!!!
UCLA Paratrooper•••••Medical schools in general view favorably on the undergrad education of UCLA! Unlike many Harvard classes where half the people get A or A- UCLA has no grade inflation and the ADCOM of these medical schools know that.
In CA UCLA is known well for being a great school and the same holds true on the East Coast. I am on the East coast right now and many schools and employers are impressed with my degree from UCLA.
The problem with UCLA pre-meds are there ate lots of them so many of the private schools see lots of applicants from all the UCs. You must somehow stand out from the crowd because there are a lot of qualified applicants from the UCs.
As far as med school courses I took a lot of 1st year med school courses during my post-bac year. The material is not harder and in some cases like medical biochemistry was actually much easier than UCLA's biochem 153 series (if they still have that series). The real issue is the pure VOLUME of material that kills people. It's a lot (I mean a lot) of stuff to memorize. You can not cram like you did in undergrad. You just gotta keep on top of things.
