I've been hearing a lot about how, in general, graduate schools don't usually like to accept students who went there for undergrad. Anyone know if that's applicable to optometry schools, esp UCBSO?
I've been hearing a lot about how, in general, graduate schools don't usually like to accept students who went there for undergrad. Anyone know if that's applicable to optometry schools, esp UCBSO?
UCBSO accepts a lot of UCB undergrads. It's not a detriment at all to come from UCB, and it's probably a plus because UCB is an excellent undergraduate school. Graduate programs don't like to "inbreed" by taking undergraduates into a graduate program in the same department, but that's not an issue with profession schools like law, medicine, dentistry, or optometry.
UCBSO accepts a lot of UCB undergrads. It's not a detriment at all to come from UCB, and it's probably a plus because UCB is an excellent undergraduate school. Graduate programs don't like to "inbreed" by taking undergraduates into a graduate program in the same department, but that's not an issue with profession schools like law, medicine, dentistry, or optometry.
They don't show more preference towards Cal students from what I heard. It is a misconception. As long as your application is competitive you can get in. But maybe they end up accepting more Cal students because they did so well on their OAT's and whatnot.
They think it's beneficial to the student to be exposed to different points of view and different academic cultures -- sort of a cross-pollenation among different schools, so that everyone is not just reinforcing the beliefs of everyone else at a particular place. It's probably also better for grad students to have academics from more than one institution familiar with them and their work up to that point.
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