<p>lol thanks lomkh…and corinnejay I work at 243, aeromechanics branch.</p>
<p>oh I worked in N262.</p>
<p>haha cool. How much do you think your internship will help your college app? Do you do a lot of work related to your major?</p>
<p>Yea I did assets database work and my majors econ so mentioned a line or two about it in my essay. I’m hoping it will help me, but I’m very borderline at Berkeley and UCLA. (3.74 GPA, Political Econ at Cal, Econ at UCLA). At this point every little thing makes me paranoid about my acceptance status at those schools.</p>
<p>Would you guys recommend de anza or foothill over Santa Monica College? SMC is based in a big city and the other colleges are more suburban based. But their tuition fees are less than SMC so I don’t know.</p>
<p>Remember that De Anza and Foothill are on the quarter system when you are calculating tuition fees.</p>
<p>yay for deanza. currently finishing up my 2nd year and ready to get on out! PTK & honors program member, although I have done NOTHING as a PTK member, sometimes I wonder if I should have joined in the first place…
Parking can suck, but after the first couple weeks of the new quarter, you most always will find parking easily.</p>
<p>Orange: </p>
<p>Santa Monica College is in Santa Monica, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles. De Anza and Foothill are located in the Bay Area (San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland), which is a major urban area. Both LA and the Bay Area are highly urbanized, although LA has a much larger population (the Bay Area has about 6.5 million people vs LA’s 14 million). If you weren’t aware already, the Bay Area is about a 5.5 hour drive from LA/Santa Monica. Moreover, it really depends what your interest/major is when picking a college. For example, in the Bay Area you’ll find things like NASA (mentioned above) and Silicon Valley has amazing opportunities in the computer sciences/IT/tech arena (both Google and eBay are based in the south Bay Area). LA has many opportunities in the entertainment industry, among other things.</p>
<p>Hope this is what you were looking for!</p>
<p>If there’s one definitive thing that Cupertino and Los Altos Hills are NOT, it’s urban.</p>
<p>Sure, there are plenty of urban parts in the Bay Area but the Bay Area is a pretty ****in big place.</p>
<p>i go to foothill and, from what i gather, the reason the international student population is so huge is because it’s a fantastic damn school – i met my boyfriend because when he moved into the state this is where his stanford-physicist uncle told him to go. the transfer rate is high; i’ve heard something like highest in california for ucla? i’m into the sciences, so i can’t speak much about the arts, except to guess that because de anza is a much larger school enrollment-wise perhaps their programs are more developed.</p>
<p>i can’t speak highly enough about foothill. it’s a beautiful place, woody and clean, and it’s well-funded (the place has a gene sequencer! and even for non-science folk: let possession of a multi-hundred-thousand-dollar piece of equipment at a community college sink in). the staff are friendly, which is a vast difference/delight as compared with a more urban cc i attended. a ton of people, i know, commute from san francisco just to go there. i’m sad to be leaving so soon.</p>