Success

• Since 1992, BSP has supported over 2,650 Berkeley undergraduates from economic, gender, ethnic and cultural groups historically underrepresented in biology

• There are currently approximately 500 active BSP members
• 80% are first-generation/low-income
• 70% are women
• 60% are underrepresented minorities (URM)

• BSP students generally enter Berkeley with lower SAT scores and high school GPAs and have graduated in equivalent percentages with biology degrees and comparable exit GPAs as biology majors-at-large

• Since 2004, BSP’s Pre-Health Pathway Program has helped 230 BSP members enter medical school at an admission–to-application success rate of 90% (as compared to a national rate of 50% and a UCB rate of 55%)
• Of the 230 students, 116 were URM students
• Of the 230 students, 131 attended medical schools in California (80 of whom were URM)

• 10% of all African Americans enrolled in a California medical program in the years 2006-2009 came from BSP

• Since 2004, 96% of URM medical school applicants in BSP were admitted v. 35% of those at Berkeley, but not in BSP

• 40% of the URM students who graduate with degrees in Biology are members of BSP

• 62% of the URM students in the Biological Sciences graduating with Honors and thereby completing research projects for a thesis are members of BSP

• BSP administered research programs have supported over 700 undergraduate researchers since 1992

• Over 190 U.C. Berkeley faculty have mentored undergraduates participating in BSP administered research programs since 1992

• Since 2006, the number of BSP students who have gone on to graduate school each year has doubled

• Between 2005-2010 58% of BSP students from disadvantaged backgrounds (underrepresented minority, low-income, and/or first-generation) awarded biology degrees at UC Berkeley graduated with a 3.0 or higher compared to 27% of non-BSP students from disadvantaged backgrounds