Hi K,
I really like your blog. Thanks for posting up so much stuff! Anyway, since you were graduating soon, I started looking around for other blogs to follow too, you know just in case haha. Are there any you recommend? I want to avoid the official Berkeley-sponsored blogs. Also, I found http://cal-mcber.blogspot.com and was wondering what you think about it. I know it isn't a pre-med blog, but do you think a lot of the advice still applies?
Thanks!
A
I really like your blog. Thanks for posting up so much stuff! Anyway, since you were graduating soon, I started looking around for other blogs to follow too, you know just in case haha. Are there any you recommend? I want to avoid the official Berkeley-sponsored blogs. Also, I found http://cal-mcber.blogspot.com and was wondering what you think about it. I know it isn't a pre-med blog, but do you think a lot of the advice still applies?
Thanks!
A
Dear A,
Thanks for stopping by and for the kind words! :)
A few have asked about that blog, and I think it's great! It provides a ton of great information and advice so yes, I recommend it! Unfortunately, I don't know any other blogs that specifically cater to berkeley science majors :/
I'll still be answering questions on here after I graduate and posting about the application process as I go through it so feel free to leave questions/comments!
Best of luck!
-K
Hi! I'm currently debating between UC Berkeley Regents and USC Trustee. The $ isn't a huge factor in my case, thankfully. I'm really conflicted; I visited both campuses and loved them each. I'm considering premed but I'm not 100% set on it, especially at UC Berkeley where I fear that I may end up with a low GPA (I do not want to apply multiple times to medical school if I can help it, as med school+residency is already so drawn out). I guess...my question is...what are the options for UC Berkeley premed students? Should I pursue economics as a major to avoid assimilating within the extremely competitive and homogeneous pool of Molecular Bio premed students? That major also has good career prospects, I believe...just in case premed doesn't work out. And I could take a minor in Chemistry to help with the premed requirements, perhaps. My counselor wants me to select my major this week, so we can start discussing my college options, but I've no idea...I love East Asian languages but that would probably be more of a minor...
ReplyDeleteLinguistics, cognitive science...those are intriguing as well. Do you know of successful premed students who have taken those majors? So far I've only met molecular bio and integrative bio majors at ucb pursuing the premed tract.
thanks for listening to my rambling, and love ur blog :) i've been poring over its post for the past hour since i've discovered it!
Hi K,
ReplyDeleteI have a question about GPA cut off for medical school. I'm a junior and taking MCB 102 and Physics 8B this semester and I'm so scared that these will bring my GPA that is already not great looking (cGPA 3.4). What should I do? Please let me know!
Thanks.