<p>I'm a transfer student coming from a California Community College. I'm looking to get into the most highly respected undergraduate program I can, preferably at a UC, though I understand CSUs may be a better choice for me. I would prefer to stay on the West Coast, but am willing to go anywhere but the south to get my education.</p>
<p>Stats at Transfer:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.5
Extracirriculars: 2 years Student Government; Local and Regional Phi Theta Kappa officer; At-Large Senator, Student Senate for California Community Colleges; member, officer of multiple clubs.</p>
<p>Eric, you couldn’t go wrong with Berkeley. If you want eventually to go to grad school, or even if you don’t but you are a serious student, you will benefit from being at an institution that has fine graduate programs. Motivated undergraduates can learn a ton from graduate students, who are only a few years ahead of them, and from the programs that are typically aimed at grad students (an ambitious program of visiting scholars, for instance, is much more common at a university with a PhD program than at a LAC). And don’t write off the South if there’s an excellent program there. As an anthropologist, you should know enough to discount regional stereotypes.</p>