<p>So im considering UCSB UCD and UCI as top choices due to their prestige, but i might get rejected to all 3. In the case that i do which is the best route to take for my college life? CC> Ucs or going to Cal Poly Pomona or San jose State?
Pros for CCS: cheaper, getting into better school after if i try hard, 7 ap classes in hs (passed 4 tests so far) UCs have both majors/minor i want (Econ Stats)
Cons: overfilled classes, lack of the college experience for the first 2 years (social), staying at home for 2 more years</p>
<p>Pro for Csu: San jose state is in silicon valley (Does that help for internships for econ majors?) College experience, relativity cheap
Cons: lacks prestige, no stats majors. </p>
<p>and if i do get into UCs right off the bat will the extra cost be worth it?</p>
<p>(tldr version; is prestige that important for universities?)</p>
<p>Does your community college have an honors program? I know at mine the students who had a >3.8 W UC GPA were allowed to register first and had access to a few other perks.</p>
<p>For an economics degree, I’d position myself the best I can. You’re obviously very bright, having taken 7 AP courses.</p>
<p>Actually, I’d position myself the best I can regardless of any major. Go to the UC. You can’t lose. You CAN lose by attending the CSU.</p>
<p>The cc route won’t be as bad as you imagine. Be sure to be active. Your cc will probably have few clubs/other activities so get internships and jobs. Build your resume so that when you get to the UC level you will be able to compete. Attending a UC school will work wonders for jobs, and I’d argue that the experience you would get at a UC exceeds that you would get at CSU. You’ll carry that with you for the rest of your life as an alumnus.</p>
<p>I don’t have any facts or figures off hand, but I would attend the UC if I was in your position.</p>
<p>tl;dr I think you’re selling yourself short by not attending a UC.</p>
<p>Try the net price calculators (financial aid estimators) at each school’s web site to see what your net cost is likely to be.</p>
<p>CC->UC can be a good option, but if you are very advanced (with lots of 5 scores on APs), then you could hit the CC ceiling (i.e. no upper division courses) in your second year at CC when you could be moving on to upper division courses if you had started at a four year school as a freshman.</p>
<p>thanks guys! im middle class so i doubt i even qualify for financial aid but my brother and sister are attending college this year so the load on my parents income is gonna be pretty heavy,so yeah… guess the cc-> uc choice is the perffered choice here? lol my ap scores are world -3 us 4 lit -4 stats-3 and im taking studioart, government, literature, and chemistry, only expecting 5 in studioart and maybe government… and my highschool gpa is 3.2, act score 27 if that influences anything. Im just concerned about staying inc ommunity college for too long due to class sizes and the social aspect.</p>
<p>Try the financial aid estimators / net price calculators instead of making assumptions about what financial aid you may or may not get.</p>
<p>Unless your definition of middle class or middle income resembles that thrown around [in</a> politics](<a href=“Romney: Middle-Income Reaches to $250,000 - WSJ”>Romney: Middle-Income Reaches to $250,000 - WSJ), you might get some financial aid. Indeed, if your family earns the median household income of about $50,000 per year, you are likely to get substantial financial aid.</p>