<p>I currently attend De Anza College in Cupertino, CA and I plan to transfer out after I get the GED and transfer requirements done. My initial gung-ho and still mostly is for getting into Berkley to follow my Comp. Sci. major.</p>
<p>Recently though I've been reading things about other colleges that have had me questioning if Berkley is my only real option for a good Comp. Sci. school thats near the bay area.</p>
<p>I've read that San Jose State University supplies a lot of people to IBM, Ebay, Cisco, nvidia, etc. which added SJSU to my list of possible transfer colleges.</p>
<p>Then one of my professors mentioned Caltech, which I have never really looked into or know much about, but the little research that I did, it seemed to measure up with Stanford, Berkley and MIT in terms of computer science. </p>
<p>Problem with Caltech is that its in southern California, and I'd much prefer to stay in the bay area, unless there is a majorly good reason to go there over a college here.</p>
<p>Also I want to know if SJSU is a good backup school for Comp. Sci. Since just incase I dont manage to get into UCB.</p>
<p>My current plan is Stanford (severely doubt this) -> Berkley -> SJSU -> Caltech
I know Caltech is severely better than SJSU, but I do prefer to stay near the Silicon Valley. Though I am open to colleges that aren't around here.</p>
<p>So can anyone advise me on what would be the best choice? With the recent info I've gotten Im kinda confused on what I should shoot for, and what is just a false misconception the colleges try to create to lure people in.</p>
<p>Caltech isn't part of the UC system. It's going to be extremely hard for you to get into a good school as a transfer outside of that system.</p>
<p>I know its not part of the UC system. Never said it was. I know it will be hard to transfer out of a community college to a private school, but its worth a try if its a good school.</p>
<p>CalTech is a top notch school, similar in reputation to MIT, but smaler. I think you should take a look at transfer stats for that school, these are the latest stats available on the College Board website. I can tell you that few, if any, are transferring from communtiy college.</p>
<p>Total number of transfer students who applied: 97
Total number of transfer students who were admitted: 8 </p>
<p>While we're at it, here are Stanford's:</p>
<p>Total number of transfer students who applied: 1,400
Total number of transfer students who were admitted: 23
Minimum number of credits a transfer applicant must have: 39 </p>
<p>I guess that give a pretty good picture of why the UC transfer agreement is critical for your situation. You should be looking a other UC system schools, I'd say definitely UCSD-- and UCDavis and UCSC if location is really going to drive your college career. But you need backups for if you don't get admitted to UCB.</p>
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<p>You'd be surprised how often I see that on these boards, so that's why I mentioned it.</p>
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Also I want to know if SJSU is a good backup school for Comp. Sci. Since just incase I dont manage to get into UCB.
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<p>Yes. One complaint I've heard about SJSU is that it's a commuter school. Since you're at De Anza now, you're probably used to that and presumably it won't be an issue for you. </p>
<p>Gordon Moore (founder of Intel) is an alum.</p>