<p>I got into these 3 schools and I have no idea which one to go to!
Wash U gave me a half-scholarship, UCLA gave me regents, and UCB gave me nothing
I want to go into business so I know that UCB's business school is amazing but there's also the chance that I won't get in.
If I go to UCLA, i was thinking about majoring in business political economy or possibly psychology.
And I've already gotten into WUSTL's olin school which I know is good but I'm not sure if it's on the same level as UCB and UCLA</p>
<p>honestly go WashU. Smaller Classes, more teacher-student interaction. WashU is gaining more prestige as each year goes by. It has a top 15ish business school. And your more likely to get a high gpa just in case you plan to continue your studies for grad school. Also the half-scholarship helps to lower the cost quite a bit.</p>
<p>I don’t really know much about business, except that Haas is awesome or something.</p>
<p>But you can’t go wrong with Cal when we have our own theme song. blue nad yellow blue and yellow blue and yellow</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - duma nes - Blue and Yellow (Cal Theme Song)](<a href=“duma nes - Blue and Yellow (Cal Theme Song) - YouTube”>duma nes - Blue and Yellow (Cal Theme Song) - YouTube)</p>
<p>i really need more help on this: i’ve visited all 3 schools and i like all of them. in my opinion, it seems that ucb has the best business program of the 3, but ucla gave me a regents scholarship & i liked the fact that wash u was a private school. (on a side note: does wash u, which is in st. louis, offer good job opportunities for business graduates?</p>
<p>additionally, does anyone think it would be stupid for me to give up a regents scholarship at ucla to go to ucb, since at ucla i would have priority enrollment but not at ucb?</p>
<p>Oh, there’s so much misconception here. You’ll get the same attention at Haas undergrad as you’ll get anywhere including Olin, or maybe even more. And, quite honestly, it is amore prestigious degree than that of Olin’s. </p>
<p>This is not even a close call. Go to Berkeley – it’s the better school, better brand power, better placement to BB, better and larger social and alumni network in the business world in the US or outside of the US, and it’s in California, the better State.</p>
<p>really? does anyone else have any ideas? the thing i’m worried about for berkeley is not getting into the haas school though. i feel like if i went to berkeley and didn’t get into haas, i would definitely regret having gone there.</p>
<p>If you wont get into haas you’re most likely going to end up at econ and Berkeley econ > Olin.</p>
<p>you guys all have the same questions. answer from a different thread:</p>
<p>Whatever, getting into Haas is easy. Basically everyone I know who actually tried to get in got accepted, even a guy with a 3.2.</p>
<p>I would say the deciding factor is that you’re not completely sure of what you want to do and Berkeley is going to give you much better options in basically any major you could pick. I thought I was going to apply to Haas when I first got here but ended up double majoring in MCB and Econ, which are both top 5 programs at Berkeley.</p>
<p>So if you don’t know what you want to do, go with Berkeley for better overall options. If you do know you want to do business, you should expect to be able to get into Haas and should go with Berkeley anyway.</p>
<p>mercy93 - let me add some context to the decision about priority registration at UCLA versus regular status at Cal. </p>
<p>Here is what the bottom line experience will be like for you, based on what students really experience going through their four years. </p>
<p>Most students are able to graduate in four years, getting into the classes they need, under the regular registration priority system. </p>
<p>You won’t always get into the classes you wish to take in a semester, but generally with some flexibility (e.g. take another one you need now, do the class you missed next semester), you will get into the ones you have to.</p>
<p>You won’t always get the more desirable times, when a class is offered at multiple times. In your early years, you will go to a lot of 8AM classes because registration timeslots are based upon seniority, in the main. </p>
<p>Sometimes you will be waitlisted in the class and will not clear into the class until 1-2 weeks after it starts - however, you just attend the class from the beginning in anticipation of officially joining a bit later. This leads to some anxiety, but results are usually good for any reasonable wait list position.</p>
<p>About 10% of the max class size ends up clearing from a waitlisted class each semester, on average. If the waitlist is much larger than this already, then students shift to plan B - register for another class that you will need, or that satisfies one of the remaining UC/Cal/college/degree requirements, trying again next semester for the class.</p>
<p>Summer session is a way to jump into some classes that are pre-requisites for other work and that have given you challenges during regular semester registrations - pretty likely that you will take a class at least one summer while at Cal, which can be a “plan C” to deal with registration headaches. </p>
<p>You may have an elective class that you are passionately interested in attending, but that is in high demand. Once you prioritize registration for your degree requirements and other needs, you may not be able to get into that desired class. </p>
<p>Similarly, out of the hundreds of classes that could be used to satisfy various general and breadth requirements, some will be highly appealing to you, some will be acceptable, some will be uninteresting or high work/low value, and some will be positively distasteful to you. You may not get into your most appealing choices in a semester, but usually can get into an acceptably interesting one, or at worst case into an uninteresting one. Rarely would you feel forced into taking a distasteful one, and there is always ‘plan B’ to shift that requirement to a later semester and take on some other need instead. </p>
<p>Bottom line - with regular priority, most are able to move through their four years, get what they need, get good enough choices in classes to be satisfied with their Cal experience, get into some amazing classes, and have a workable even though not ideal schedule each semester. </p>
<p>Priority registration would alter this to increase the predictability of what courses you will take in particular semesters, to increase the desirability of your class times and days, maybe give you 1-2 days per week with no classes at all, improve your chances at taking any particular class you desired, and eliminate the anxiety of having to waitlist and/or juggle plans around to deal with filled classes.</p>
<p>Priority registration is a luxury - not needed to get done on time nor to have a great undergrad academic experience - but does have real benefits. Since it probably won’t change outcomes for you, such as time to graduate or degree you can complete, it isn’t a strategic advantage but it is a plus to put on one side of the ledger, just as location or facilities, or which mascot you prefer or sports team are all plus or minus factors. To me, it is not enough to make the decision clearcut, but it is something that needs to be weighed in the overall balance.</p>
<p>thanks for the great response rider730. that really cleared up a lot for me in terms of the difference between priority registration and regular registration.<br>
i think it’s also important to mention that i want to go to law school after graduation so i’m not sure if that’s a big factor in the choice i should make. (ex. it’s harder to have a high gpa at berkeley v. wash u maybe?)
and i was also wondering if there’s really much of a difference in private v. public schools. is wash u a better school than ucb because it’s private? or does it really not make much of a difference?</p>
<p>Did you ask any current students about the effect of budget cuts? Private schools aren’t necessarily better but generally the better endowed private schools don’t need to pinch their pennies nearly as much as public colleges.</p>
<p>If money isn’t an issue, I say go to WUSTL. It’s where Stanford was 25 years ago. When you are in mid-career it will be a mid-top ten college. Would be top ten now if not for east coast provincialism. And if you don’t like it there you can easily transfer to UC. Transfering the other way not so easy.</p>
<p>Only negative is that alumni influence tends to be regional. Beyond 100-200 miles there doesn’t tend to be much of a concentration of alumni. But from college grads I’ve asked, most have said that alumni contacts have had NO influence on their careers.</p>
<p>academically though, is wash u better or ucb / ucla? because in every ranking that i look at, ucb and ucla are both ranked higher than wash u (ex. the Times & us news world ranking of schools)</p>
<p>^berkeley, ucla, wash u. </p>
<p>now image that there are noticeable gaps between those commas. </p>
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<p>does that sound like something a business major should be saying? where’s your risk-loving spirit? your fiery passion for competition? 
nothing ventured, nothing gained. + 50% (25% if you want to get all theoretical on me) isn’t <em>too</em> bad…</p>
<p>If you want to go to law school, I’d go to wash u… Better relationships with professors and it’s probably easier to get a good gpa there</p>
<p>Successful people take risks. Go to Berkeley.</p>
<p>@OP, also consider where you’d be the happiest. Happy people tend to be successful people.</p>
<p>^ Happy people can also get fat and lazy. You need drive and competition…get out of your comfort zone.</p>
<p>yeah, sure: this is my future we’re talking about! i’m not going to take a stupid risk that doesn’t end up paying off in the end. (to ucbchemegrad)</p>
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…ok…
…oh god.
… do you even know what the word “risk” means?</p>
<p>to be honest, even if you DID get into haas, if you walk into an interview (that haas will hook you up with) with THAT mentality, you’ll be laughed out of the room.</p>
<p>so what business concentration/industry are you looking into? a “safety” one? one where all risks are rewarded? which one is that? we live in this cool country called America. people fail every day. it’s pretty neat though, cuz people still take risks even though they know the odds are they’ll fail. why take the risk? b/c of the <em>potential</em> of high returns. don’t put your $ down unless you’re ready to lose it all. i don’t think you’re ready to lose anything to be honest. imo, don’t go to cal. </p>
<p>best of luck pal.</p>
<p> imo.</p>