<p>Transferring into a UC means you have to take 60 units of college stuff, and you definitely don’t get to stay in the freshmen dorms. </p>
<p>AFAIK UCSD you get the option of almost-on-campus apartments that cost $1200-1400 a month. </p>
<p>I’d say you were nuts if you wanted to go in as a transfer! I wish I had done my high school so that I went straight in and was a graduate by now!</p>