Does anyone have an opinion of UC Santa Cruzs Health Sciences major?
I’m curious if anyone has heard of or knows anything about this program. I am about to enroll as a freshman; at 22, I’ll be a little older than most prospective freshman on this site. My goal is to become a physician, and to set myself up with opportunity at the country’s finest medical schools. From what I’ve seen, UC Santa Cruz, although, as I’m sure a lot of you will point out, is a lower tier UC, it’s really trying to beef up its standing as a feeder school to some of the finer medical schools. Like I said, I’m sure a few of you will laugh at this, but here’s a link from their site. Health Science Home It basically says that they’ve compiled this program based on what top medical schools look for in applicants (there are internship and spanish language requirements, in addition to the standard pre med requirements) in the interest of training more qualified physicians for the state of California. I know this is a lot of hype created by the university itself, but I wonder if there’s
