<p>Hi everyone. I am a transfer student. I have been accepted to the HAAS school of Business at Berkeley. I have also been accepted to the Business Econ Major at UCLA. UCLA is also offering the regents scholarship to me and that would finance most of my education there. I am from Nor Cal, so the benefits of CAL are the prestige and it's close to home. But I am worried about the competition and difficulty in getting good grades (I want to shoot for a masters later on). UCLA attracts me because of the Regents benefits. Where should I go?</p>
<p>hey, I just got accepted to UCLA for buss. econ also, I should tell you that first of all I know nothing of berkleys program,other that HAAS is amazing, but I figured I would tell you this:
UCLA's buss econ is considered fairly not hard, meaning that they require you to take fewer classes than usual and more electives, which is cool since they have a lot, I have heard, more towards econ then buss econ, but heard that the major is accompanied by a minor or even a double major for a lot of people, therefore they consider it good. Also, I have heard from family who is (and is graduating in 3 weeks) from the econ program, that it is not so much math based, comparitive to say UCSD or other econs where math is BIG. She also rejected buss econ for normal econ as she sigted that buss econ was very competitive and requires much accounting in the anderson school of business. I hope this info will help you out.</p>
<p>I can't help you choose, but know that admission to the MBA program at top schools will be based more on your work experience after college than on your undergrad gpa.</p>
<p>From what I've found, people overestimate the competition at Berkeley. You can get good grades if you try -- it's not that difficulty (though obviously no piece of cake -- not due to competition, but simply difficult courses). What is Berkeley giving you money-wise? Which would you prefer to go to, excluding money?</p>
<p>Money aside, I'm being pulled to LA as a school. However, nothing can beat out HAAS recruitment and career development. Would I be a fool to give up my spot there?</p>
<p><em>chuckle</em> No need to capitalize Haas--understandably you're excited but it's not an acronym (sorry, personal peeve).</p>
<p>If you got into Haas as a transfer, you'd be part of a very small and select group of individuals. On a pure selectivity scale, it's much harder to get into Haas than it is UCLA Business Economics--plus you ran the risk of being rejected from Berkeley altogether, since if you didn't get into Haas, you wouldn't have gotten into Cal either. That isn't really a factor now, though it's probably on your mind still.</p>
<p>But what kind of career are you looking for and what's your personal preferences? It wouldn't help matters if you hated it at Haas, and thus clammed yourself up and didn't network--the primary benefit of Haas.</p>
<p>Neither UCLA or UC Berkeley Haas are altogether that regional, though Haas has a wider net in terms of where its graduates go in their careers (geographically).</p>
<p>As said though, this is all measuring it from pure cost/benefit. If you do well at either, you'll end up in good places from either--though consulting, investment banking, and other highly recruitment oriented industries will be somewhat harder (NYC offices, etc--LA would obviously pose no problems there, and in fact might have an advantage) but a far cry from impossible.</p>
<p>On the other hand, you could stand out more as a Regent's at UCLA and get an edge that way--there's more competition among Haas students against Haas students for positions than most people acknowledge.</p>
<p>Overall, decide on which you'll be more interested in attending itself--the one and only hesitation would be is if you are exclusively shooting for a select number of firms in a select few industries (though it sometimes seems like all economics/business students at CC do so...), otherwise, there is very little difference. And note, it's only a hesitation.</p>
<p>If you like UCLA that much more, go to UCLA.</p>