Help me choose!!! UCB or UVA honor?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hi! I'm an asian student and a new member here. I've been thinking about which school i should finally attend hundreds of times in my head and I really need your help now!!!</p>

<p>UCB-Letters of art and science VS UVA-Rodman Scholar honor program, College of Engineering.</p>

<p>My major is undecided, but I'll probably choose one from the followings: eco\ industrial engineering( unfortunately it's not offered in UVA)\ business </p>

<p>If I went to UVA, I would try to transfer to McIntire cuz UVA is not strong in engineering and there is nothing I want to learn at COE. But I really don't know my chance. Anyone knows how many percent of Rodmans apply to McIntire and how many percent get in?</p>

<p>UCB is much stronger in academic and more prestigious. But I don't like the fact that 48% of the students there are ASIAN and I have to get tan!!!</p>

<p>Moreover, does Rodman Scholar ( honorship) mean anything when I transfer within university and apply to graduate schools?</p>

<p>Thanks for everyone who replys.</p>

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<p>It seems odd to me that you would consider attending a college at which there is nothing you want to learn.</p>

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<p>wonder about Berkeley and UOV’s selection of their students, lol</p>

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<p>I thought I would be good learning EE. But my father who majored in EE convinced me that the work is too sophisticated to me. </p>

<p>Guys, please offer some suggestion, not question AOs’ judgement! Thank you~</p>

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<p>Well, UVA is not going to be as diverse as Berkeley, so you may have culture shock there. Also, UVA is closer in terms of travelling back and forth to Asia. It is a 5-6 hour plane ride from the west coast to Virginia and UVA is not next to the airport. Berkeley is near Oakland airport, so that would be easier. Sounds like UVA doesn’t even have the courses you want unless you make a change, which may be difficult, it being a public institution and a beauracracy with all the headaches that entails. Berkeley is heavily asian, but not overwhelmingly so.</p>

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<p>Go to Berkeley, if money is no object. Here is the info on the Rodman Scholar program at UVA. If UVA is giving you a full ride then I would consider going.</p>

<p>As for your father, I think YOU can figure out if EE is “too sophisticated” for YOU. I think you should try out what you want to do and figure it out for yourself. Don’t let anyone discourage you. </p>

<p>I am not sure why being with other asian students or getting a tan is a problem, those seem like silly reasons for not choosing Cal.</p>

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<p>Well, I also think that this is one of Berkeley’s weakest area. I’m not a racist or anti Asians (I’m 1/4 Asian) but 48% Asian is just too much.</p>

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<p>RML – not if you’re coming straight from Asia. Culture is a big deal, and going from Asia to UVA seems like it would present a lot of cultural stressers. Unless you’ve ever been on the outside looking in, it’s hard to appreciate the psychological impact of that. I mean… right in the post is described a young man being unquestioningly obedient to his father. Hell, in half the world the father would say… “son, you’re 18, you’re on your own now, do what you will”, or if he were to be dominant as in this case, the son would tell the father to $@@ off. That’s a cultural/psychological thing that is very powerful.</p>

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<p>UC’s admissions are a true meritocracy without regard to race. To discriminate against Asians because they make up a high percentage in the application pool would be inappropriate for a public school and quite un-American (including anti-MLK). I think that’s one of the unique features of the UC’s and actually makes the schools diverse. (I find it interesting that people would say that a school with ~50% black students and ~50% whites is diverse but a school like Berkeley with ~50% Asian and ~50% non-Asian is not. Do people realize how diverse the Asian continent is?)</p>