<p>I know attending CA cc or CA State school is not good now: kids cannot get the classes they need when they need them to graduate in two or four years. </p>
<p>What about the top three UC schools? Does anyone know about UCSanDiego and CAL (Berkeley)? Are kids having trouble getting their courses. My son admitted to UCSD, awaiting CAL March28 decision - never did hear from UCLA. We are out-of-state Nevada. The Western Admission reciprocity agreement is only for Cal State NOT UC. </p>
<p>If anyone knows about how it is for lower level ugrads getting their Core classes and other, please let me know. <a href="mailto:flyer@sbcglobal.net">flyer@sbcglobal.net</a>. that is, for UCSD and CAL.</p>
<p>UNevada Reno has a competitive program: ENGERGY geothermal, oil/gas exploration, sun/wind, such that it’s in the league of Stanford, Cornell, we understand. Son’s h.s. Dual Credits transfer, all of them, such that his core/breadth is two classes shy of complete for UNR. he’d rather be doing the joint Math-Econ progarm at Revelle UCSD. he desperately wants to not graduate from the college he’s used as his high school, but making sense for him to stay. Ultimately would like to end up in DC: policy gov or private , even lobbyist. Much easier here to gain work experience, internship, research in Energy AND access to the Nevada political machine than in CA. And Pres Obama just put $2Billion into Energy Ed. Son’s merit scholarship and GI Bill from Dad means his CAL or UCSD tuition covered and money left-over ($53,500 per year). But UNR’s Presidential and instate tuition means my son would not have to use his GI Bill - good till he’s 26. GI Bill pays big for Grad school: 100% Princeton Woodrow Wilson, $50K top law schools in US and even Wharton at Penn, Harvard Kennedy School.</p>
<p>I’m trying to convince my son to stay here, graduate at 20 or 21 with Study Abroad. downside is UNR doesn’t have a Mandarin Program. he’s already beyond the two years they offer. Mandarin would have to go.</p>
<p>The only thing that’s convincing my son to stay here is hearing from a CA family yesterday who were at UNR’s Honors PRogram Advising Session, is hearing from them they are gladly paying out-of-state fees, since their accomplished son at Sonoma State CA can’t get his classes and just had to petition some bigwig there to take off two mandatory core classes so he can graduate…and the inability to get classes has put him past his fifth year. Hoping to graduate in six years, but parent said he could have been out in four if he’d been able to get his classes.</p>
<p>So, would never attend a Cal State School nowadays, but what about UCSD and CAL? Same? I was hoping CA prioritized the crown jewels of its education system and protected these two schools with enough classes and teachers per student for them to be able to graduate in four years if desired. Anyone know?</p>