<p>Which is the best california community college (CCC) to attend if one wants to transfer into Berkeley? I am currently looking at a variety of CCC and I would like one that has an honors program. I don't yet know what I want to major in. Currently I am considering: Santa Barbara City College because they have private residence halls and a good honors program. I am also looking at Foothill which has a great honors program but it is quarters (which I don't like as much) and because it is so close to home I would probably have to live in my house for the two years while I do my IGETC. Thank you for reading this and any comments of suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerly,
Jessica</p>
<p>Diablo Valley, The City College of San Francisco, and De Anza lead the way in transfers to Berkeley. Take that as you will.</p>
<p>I recommend that you attempt to find an apartment or something in San Francisco.</p>
<p>DVC leads....tho i dont know how wise it would be to pay that much if you get rejected by Cal.....SF area is extremely expensive (I know)....</p>
<p>If you plan to go to DVC, the Pleasant Hill/Concord area isnt too bad off, maybe you get a friend or someone who's willing to share...</p>
<p>As far as I know, Berk doesn't offer a transfer prog unlike the rest of cc. </p>
<p>I's research to c which cc has the most prereqs for ur major, good amount of courses offered, good teachers, and convinience (not over crowded).</p>
<p>I don't think it really matters which cc u go to. I'd go to one closer to where u live so u can save some money.</p>
<p>i agree with highschoolda</p>
<p>i go to dvc.. great school but the point of a CC is close to home, save money. go to the closest CC to ur home. dvc doesnt have an honors program either.. honors programs are stupid anyway, take the regular classes.. ace them and get into cal. cal doesnt care what CC u go to anyway.</p>
<p>cc2uc is WRONG THANK YOU honors programs are absolutely beneficial to your ed. plan development. they give you an edge in admissions (95% transfer rate to LA foooooooooooooooooooo?) cal knows whats up with ccs so you dont needto worry about where you go for it but i rec de anza like i do obsessively to everyone :|)</p>
<p>jess asked specifically about berkeley.. you all answered that DVC is the best for going to cal (which it is. statistically transfering the most of all the CCCs). so.. with that i will say again that dvc has no honors program. no honors program but highest transfer rate. a little reasoning tells me u dont need to be in an honors program. if u want to make things more challenging take more classes, get a job, and volunteer.. those are the things that are going to give u an edge.</p>
<p>Firstly, UCLA has a specific deal with a lot of community colleges that says that if you're in one of their honors programs, they'll give you priority for admission. But that's not at every college. It's not the existence of the Honors Programs that gives you the edge in that case, it's the written agreemetn with UCLA. Ever heard of TAPS?</p>
<p>Secondly, even for Honors programs that a part of TAPS, the rate is 87%, not 95%.</p>
<p>Yeah, DVC has a huge transfer rate to UCB...however, I hear those stats are going to start going down now that Berkeley has stopped offering agreements. But DVC is a great school,but beware of competition. There are some seriously smart kids here.</p>
<p>berkeley use to offer agreements with DVC?</p>
<p>yup, they stopped fall 04.</p>
<p>kind of a silly question, but do UC's only care about how you did in CCC then what CCC you went to? Because I noticed that some CCC has a higher transfer rate then others.</p>
<p>jeez.. there is no such thing as a prestigus comunity college. just think about how stupid that sounds. UCs dont care, call them urselves, about where u go.</p>
<p>AGREED. Neji, you are unfortunately way off in that line of thinking. In fact, the UCs CANNOT have preferences for one CA community college over another. It can only HELP you to come from a school with a LOWER transfer rate, as geographic diversity CAN be considered.</p>
<p>The higher transfer rates don't mean that if you personally get good scores and do the right things, you'll somehow have less chance of getting in than if you had gone to another Ccc. The idea, if anything, is that you may not work to your potential, or be a small minority, at a given school with a lower transfer rate.</p>