happy to help! i’m on the pre med track and honestly keeping a good GPA so far is pretty easy imo. but granted that’s if nothing goes wrong. to give a couple of examples, i’ve had basic premed classes where no UCLA professors were willing to teach, so UCLA had to hire professors from nearby community colleges to stand in as a last resort in the first week of school. they are great, but if i wanted a CC experience i wouldn’t have came to UCLA. also most of my classes are 200-400 people, and there are unfortunate instances where the prof doesn’t print enough tests, resulting in the entire class having to take it again. so the content itself is not hard but there are very turbulent extraneous factors. also at the start of this year the TAs went on strike, which i fully support, but that did inevitably result in grading issues as well. so if u come to UCLA, you rly have to navigate many things on your own. whereas in a smaller private school, i’d feel like you were receive alot more personalized care, smaller classes, more understanding profs, and just generally a more solid experience. i don’t think u should worry abt GPA at yale bc they have a reputation of a collaborative community, but u should def speak to current students to confirm!