I applied for electrical engineering for all these schools and accepted, but I am really confused about which school is a better fit for me. UCR had a very attractive financial aid package, CPP had food science-related stuff which I am interested about, and SDSU is the only noncommuter school. CSUF is in LA which is fun I guess?
Can you guys help me out? Or tell me the good and bod of each school?
What are you looking for in your college experience?
You can check ABET accreditation for all the schools since this would indicate a standardized curriculum for the EE programs.
https://amspub.abet.org/aps/name-search?searchType=institution
What are the costs for each school?
Are finances an issue?
Do you plan to live on-campus for all or some within commuting distance?
Have you visited any of the campuses?
What kind of social scene are you interested in?
I had lived in San Diego for quite a while so I do want to get out of this place, but knowing that SDSU is an excellent school is making me harder to make this decision.
I had been to UCR, SDSU, and CPP, which I think CPP seems to be a better campus since the other one are so compacted together.
I think I will only live on campus for the first year. I am not the partiest person but won’t mind a few.
The biggest problem is that only UCR had published the financial aid, and it is covering almost everything, ending up less than 10k. I am still waiting for the other one,
I would wait for all the FA packages especially if costs may be an issue.
All are good choices and CPP is not known to be a “party school” but my attitude is that any school can be a “party” school if you make an effort to seek them out.
You have a tough choice. My younger son attended SDSU but his local CSU was CPP so he wanted something different also so I can understand your hesitation. There is no bad option here so pick the one that meets your academic, financial and social goals.
Best of luck.
Be careful of the SDSU EE department. It looks like in http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-life/2074999-my-school-made-horrible-changes-p1.html that they changed requirements and courses with too little advance notice and without letting current students take the old requirements, resulting in some students not being able to graduate on time (in this particular case, the OP had an ROTC scholarship contract that s/he could no longer fulfill due to this involuntary delay in graduation).
Note that at UCR, about 70% of frosh live in the dorms, so it is mostly a non-commuter school. This is comparable to SDSU’s 71% of frosh living in the dorms. (from their common data sets, section F1)