<p>@Heisenberg5522. I’m curious as to what credits from Chapman were deemed unable to transfer. Did USC at least allow for you to have credit for your general education requirements? Under the Trojan Transfer plan, for instance, aspiring students who are accepted as Freshman are given a specific course plan to take in order to qualify. What did they not agree with in your Chapman curriculum?</p>
<p>Also - are you at all happy with your experience at SCA now that you are graduating? Were you actually able to make connections during your time there? Or is that part of your unhappiness with the system? Just curious.</p>
<p>Didn’t read your thread, just saw you were interested in entertainment & SCA and assumed you were in film… It’s very rare to see someone from Chapman to USC who wasn’t a film major. At any rate, USC doesn’t accept much transfer credit from certain schools, film courses or not.</p>
<p>@Heisenberg5522 How would you say USC compares to UCLA or to CalStates? I am looking for tight connections with professors and small class sizes. Also, should I chose a school based on its presige on just having, say USC or UCB or UCLA on my diploma, does that really matter in the long run?</p>
<p>@Heistenberg5522 I’m pre-med considering USC and Cal. What do you think if the costs are the same for me? </p>
<p>@AspiringStudent Having read your posts, and having graduated from USC undergrad and now living in the bay area, I would say go to Cal easily if your top priority (By far) is pre-med, you will feel more at home.</p>
<p>However, if you are less than 90-100% sure about pre-med, you may have a more interesting decision ahead of you:</p>
<p>If you are interested in Composition, looking pretty, football, frat parties/sororities, huge variety in types of people, big sprawling city, the ghetto, and the entertainment industry, go to USC.</p>
<p>If you are interested in international relations, free-spirits, hippie culture, academic prestige, boba, public transportation, homeless people, wider campus area, etc. go to Berkeley.</p>
<p>From a purely financial perspective, if you live in California, USC is technically giving you more money because it costs more :P</p>
<p>You may also want to see who the professors are, etc. though as an undergrad, your interaction with them may not be of highest priority.</p>
<p>@Expressiveness that was insanely succinct and helpful! thanks 
i actually visited USC again today to sit in on 2 Freshman Science Honors classes, and was quite disenchanted. The teachers were quite poor, and in the chem class the students were rather apathetic, distracted, and unmotivated. It really took away the enthusiasm I had toward USC, and now I recall the 400-student bio lecture at UC Berkeley that was somehow more stimulating than the 60-student one I attended today. o.O
I suppose what was pulling me toward USC ultimately was the laid-back atmosphere and provision of exclusive experiences such as Thematic Option, Freshman Science Honors and the University Residential Program. I don’t know though…Regents at Berkeley is looking more appealing now 
I’m likely going the premed route, but if not, I’ll possibly pursue biomedical engineering. Yeah I don’t like the homeless people aspect but I guess it’s something I’ll have to get used to if I go to UCB.</p>
<p>^ you do realize that this is the very end of the long semester of classes. Students at this point are gearing up for finals and I know my pre-med D has had it with classes. She is hardly as interested now as she was weeks ago. It happens. However, you should definitely go where you feel the fit is best, especially if costs are relatively equal.</p>
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