<p>So my high school years didn’t go the way I would have liked them to. I only got accepted to UCR and I got waitlisted to UCSC but they took no one off the waitlist (should’ve applied as Undecided Humanities instead of Undecided Business so I have to live with that regret for now). I only applied to UCs, I wasn’t allowed to apply out of state. I sent my SIR to UCR but I’m not feeling going there. My parents are discouraging me from going to a CC and transferring to a better UC such as Davis. They will let me do that but my mom is being especially negative about it. She basically wants to get rid of me, wants me to have the full college experience of dorming and make friends. What’s complicated is that I want to work in the medical field, like be an optometrist or opthamologist but I want to major in business or the like while taking the required science class for med school so that I can get a higher GPA. I know it doesn’t matter where I do undergrad, that it will be easier to stand out and get a good GPA at UCR, and that since they just opened up their own medical school, and that it’s good for those interested in the health professions. People keep telling me that UCR is a good school. However I’m just not feeling the school and this isn’t based solely on rankings, it’s the feel. It’s hard for someone like me who’s from the Bay Area to transition to Riverside, it was UCI, UCLA, or UCSD it would be easier. The campus is nice but I don’t like the surrounding area. I can’t even connect well with the other students who will be going there. I just don’t think I can live there for four years. And I’ve heard the CC option is a bad idea if you want to be a doctor unless necessary because medical schools want you to take those science courses at an actual university not a CC plus I would have to take courses for the major and it all becomes complicated. I’ve also heard about UC intercampus transfer and if I stick with Riverside I would be willing to work hard, get involved, and get a competitive GPA but transfers from other UCs are prioritized lower than CC transfers and that also becomes complicated. However I would be willing to transfer to any other UC except Merced, even to UCSC so if anyone can talk about this process that would help greatly too.</p>
<p>This situation is causing me a great deal of stress right now. I’ve been depressed since I got the waitlist rejection from UCSC. What really hurts is that other kids at my school who did worse than me, had lower test scores, and not as many ECs got into UCSC but I didn’t potentially because of a major choice. I know they say they don’t consider major but if you look at the stats it seems that they secretly do. Everyone is excited about graduating while I’m just upset and it hurts more to hear others talk about college. The stress is affecting my eating and sleeping habits and causing me to sometimes cry myself to sleep. Right now I am both enrolled at UCR and at my local CC so it’s a matter of choosing which one to withdraw from so could someone please give me some advice.</p>