Here's a question I posed and tried to answer: How many UCLA baccalaureate grads become MDs and what percentage of total grads would it be?
There are some posts floating around the internet, and which AI has run with, that state that ~2.8% of UCLA's and 4% of UC Berkeley's baccalaureate grads become MDs. The source for both is from a forum in which B is perpetually hailed and UCLA is perpetually degraded. This info was from a couple of posts that were, if I recall correctly about the date of these posts as to when I was researching this recently, from about seven years ago. There are posts from this forum which bubble to the top of search queues from > decade ago in order to supposedly answer questions relative to this current date and time. But, regardless, I don't think there are effectively any years in which B has outperformed UCLA with respect to producing MDs according to the aamc.org website which lists applicants by college, which I will reference in my spreadsheet below which I'll pdf dating back to the 2013-14 academic year.
Additionally, there are various advisory sites that claim to help premeds to become more admissible in the med-school admissions process. There's one site that is fairly prevalent which props B's and, again, degrades UCLA's premed process. This site claims that ~1% UCLA grads become MDs, and again it props B's which it reports as producing ~2% grads. This site, with initials CT, in another graphic, claims that B's premeds attend more prestigious m-schools than UCLA's. It mentions UCB's dominant landing spots as UCLA and UCSF, and UCLA's as being UCSD and UCLA. Being that UCLA grads have many more applicants, I would venture to guess that there are more UCLA grads at UCSF and certainly more at its naive UCLA Geffen. This notion of prestige is also bs as there are Ivy grads who predominantly attend med schools which are perceived as lower in standing than their ug schools. UCLA's grads also attend m-school literally all across the nation by casting an extremely wide net. If I get a chance, I'll list some of them from a quick look at the employment platforms. I also noted that there are some grads who'll have a platform database but not upkeep it because they've gotten into med school.
Here's my spreadsheet of yearly applicants taken from the aamc.org FACTS menu selection, and I've included the other top-producing UCs with respect to applicants to allopathic med schools:
Some YT videos claim that B has a 57-58% acceptance rate into med school -- that a person accepted with obtain ≥ 1 acceptance. UCLA in the last of its SAIRO numbers in 2019 claimed to have a 52-53%. You'll see these numbers perpetuated in AI.
With than in mind, UCLA & B on their common data set from 2025-26 state that there are 10,000 baccalaureates given out in that year. SD is in the 9,000 range even though it has more ugs than the other two now. Both UCLA and B have > 90% who graduate in two and four years for the respective transfers and those who enter from high school.
So here's the math of how many from UCLA and B who attend allopathic med schools/year and what percentage of grads would these be:
UCLA: 1,200 * .52 = 600+; 600+/10,000 = 6-7%. This percentage is massively under what has been presented in the internet. Another AI query stated that UCLA produces '180-300' med students/year, which severly undershoots reality.
B: 689 * .58% = 394; 394/10,000 = 4%. This percentage matches the percentage I cite at the top of the post.
Some other points:
It doesn't matter that the national average for those who reapply if the number of acceptances/year is steady, which UCLA's is. The national average for this is ~25%, besides the fact that UCLA and B's acceptance rates are 10%+ over the national average of acceptance which is in the low 40%, 42-43%.
It appears that UCSD's acceptance rate is ~ the national average 43% or so. I have no idea of the other UCs.
A lot of Ivy colleges will claim an extremely high percentage of acceptance, but they also cull their presented numbers by who've been advised. And the aamc numbers are those who apply with or without advisement.
UCLA's advisement is apparently more student-based which would seem to be as good as faculty-based. E.g., as an example, UCLA has an IB workshop through the Undergraduate Business Society, which places and tracks students into cohorts of tiers IB placement standing.