<p>I'm likely going to be going to community college next year. I understand that CCC have agreements with some of the UCs such as TAG and TAP. I also understand that USC is pretty transfer friendly. </p>
<p>Now, my question is, what else? What are some other schools that are out of state, that are transfer (especially community college) friendly? I've only just realized how much I want to get out of here. The farther away from home, the better...</p>
<p>Your best bet is to google “WUE” there you can find a list of all of the schools who participate in a program that will give you a discounted out of state tuition. From what I have heard it is 150% of in state tuition. Some of them are only for freshman and some are merit based. I was accepted to the U of Montana and awarded the WUE (there it was merit based) wit just like a 3.3. I am choosing not to attend though.</p>
<p>most of the the ivy league takes transfers with the exception of Princeton I believe. Harvard just recently started taking transfers again, while Yale doesnt really accept anyone hahaha. Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Carnegie, basically almost every university…</p>
<p>ps. Cornell is transfer friendly.</p>
<p>Cornell is pretty transfer friendly. I applied there for Spring 2010 and got admitted (except I deferred my admission just in case I get into one of my ideal colleges). NYU and USC accepts a lot of transfer students as well. Upenn also accepts quite a few transfers (compared to the other ivies).</p>
<p>CSUs. haha. What about UN Reno and UNLV? I heard they are reasonably priced too. They’re no Ivy League, but still pretty reputable…</p>
<p>was that a knock against CSUs?^^^</p>
<p>Cal Poly SLO</p>
<p>no…I am actually going to Sac State in the Fall. (financial circumstances in our family are preventing me from going to UC Davis) it’s just that a lot of people on CC seem to look down on CSUs because of lack of prestige.</p>
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<p>I sure as heck don’t. I did my freshman year at SF State. It was a great school.</p>
<p>what made you decide to leave SFSU if you don’t mind me asking</p>
<p>@Hanucol: I don’t mind. Its kind of a spectacular reason actually: I got married and moved to Japan. </p>
<p>We spent four years there and then decided to move back so I could finish my degree. I had been paying CA state tax the whole time I was overseas (I was domiciled at my office in Redwood City) so I qualified for in-state tuition. Therefore it made sense to move back to CA. However the Bay Area is pretty pricey, and neither my wife nor I can stand more than 15 minutes of LA at a stretch, so we moved to SD.</p>
<p>Edit: I should add that in that time, I changed my major from Computer Engineering to the physical sciences, so the appeal to go to UCSD rather than go back up and resume at SFSU was pretty strong.</p>
<p>Anyone here applying to transfer to Rice from a cc? Let me know your stats please.</p>
<p>@Jamesinho: I’m interested in hearing more about SF state, anything of interest. If I don’t get into UCSB or Long Beach, SF will by my only option. I really want the college experience but all I hear is its a commuter school and besides that not much else. The SF state sub forum isn’t much help, so any info would be great. :)</p>
<p>@Pscholler: Sure! Shoot me any questions you might have. It really is a commuter school, although they have some dorms on campus-- nothing in the way of housing is guaranteed though.</p>
<p>Housing is really the big issue there, because SF is over-occupied and rather expensive. All of my friends were in roommate situations. I had some close Asian friends who were living 6 students to a two-bedroom apartment-- that’s a pretty extreme case though. You can live pretty much anywhere in the city and easily commute to the school though. The M Muni line rolls right past the school.</p>
<p>I really enjoyed some of the professors I had there. For instance my Calc1 teacher was awesome, I was able to really grasp the subject and understand it.</p>
<p>^ I can tell you anything you want to know about it I live 10mins away from state and have tons of friends from hs who go there and my gf will be graduating from there in the fall. Send me a pm btw I’m an Sf native.</p>
<p>Know anything about the cinema major? Yeah the housing situation scares me because I planned on living in the dorms my first year at the college but they started accepting housing applications back in January and you have to pay to submit it and the money is not refundable even if you don’t go there. How’s the weather, always foggy I presume? Because its a commuter school is there a social life?</p>
<p>I have one friend who got a cinema degree from there. She then moved to LA and got her MFA from the American Film Institute Conservatory. She is now a working Producer on some Independent films. I remember when she was doing her undergrad, she was really into it, but had a hard time dealing with the criticism that sometimes happened from other students. The cinema major is kind of competitive IIRC, and some of the other students are gunners.</p>
<p>Yeah, the housing situation is nuts. Even when I had a full-time job while living in SF, things were tight. Part of the reason I moved to SD was I knew that I couldn’t support my family and do school while living in SF. When you are single and young it’s a different story though. You can afford to be more flexible.</p>
<p>It is foggy a lot, I won’t lie. SFSU is on the extreme west side of the city and so constantly a victim of the marine layer. What that translates to is that it tends to be wet, cold, and foggy in the winters especially, but rather mild in the summers. That whole side of the city tends to get nailed with fog. I used to love it though.</p>
<p>As far as social life is concerned, there are activities on campus and stuff to do. Most of the friends I made at the school were made through classes or labs. But all the fun places to go in SF are a trolley or bus ride away so you can meet people at clubs, bars, etc. I did that a lot. Even with the other big colleges in SF (UCSF, USF, CCSF) it seemed like most of the girls that I met at clubs were from SFSU.</p>
<p>SFSU doesn’t have the prestige that Cal across the bay, or Stanford down the pensinsula has, but I know several alumni who’ve gone on to bigger and better things. An ex-girlfriend of mine graduated with a business degree and last I heard was the Director of Marketing for Sony Entertainment, US.</p>
<p>Sweet thanks for the information. I’m going to go visit the college on Saturday for the open house event (unless I get accepted to UCSB first :)). I’ll let ya know what I think of it.</p>