Hi guys. I am currently a junior and an opportunity for my family to move to LA has appeared. I need some help on whether or not moving in the winter is a good choice (especially because it is junior year). My schools that I really want to go to are Cornell, UC Berkeley, CMU, U Mich, or Georgia Tech. I hope to go into either engineering or Computer Science. (should be noted our school is kind of a Cornell feeder in our eyes )
My current qualifications/extra-curriculars/skills are
*GPA around 3.9 weighted ( I hope to bring it up to a 4.3 this year)
*740 BIO SAT , 740 MATH 2 SAT (will retake) , 1420 PSAT (taking again) , 5 AP comp sci
*Currently taking 6 AP’s (calc AB, Physics 1, Psych, Studio art 2d, Government, and language)
*Part of student government for two years in a row, maybe three(senator -> secretary)
*National Competitor for Forensics speaking
*Varsity Fencing (haven’t gotten a rating yet)
*Robotic competitions
*Software development
*Graphic Design and photography
*member of countless school clubs
*I also started a club(it was pretty bad)
At this point are my prospects better or worse if I move to LA?
LA = Louisiana or Los Angeles?
If your parents and you move to California more than a year before the California residency for tuition purposes date for California public universities and community colleges, you would be able to get in-state tuition and financial aid at these schools.
@ucbalumnus Gosh, I’d assume Los Angelos. @thekingofnom You need to add in California universities for CS if you go. They are too for CS and it would be a wasted instate tuition opportunity.
If your family is going to move, they need to do so soon. For you to be instate, you need to graduate from a Calif high school.
How will you stay in NJ if they move? Live with a friend or relatives? What impact will this havery on you?
@mom2collegekids @gardenstategal
The situation would work like this. My father would take the job either way. However I could live with my mother in NJ until I graduate, or we would all go to LA sometime during the winter.
Yes I was thinking about the easier in-state tuition and the higher instate acceptance rates. But I would also have to struggle more with recommendation letters and other extra curricular stuff.
Note that UCs and CSUs in California do not use recommendation letters for admission (other than UCB inviting some applicants to submit optional ones). The CSUs other than CPSLO have purely stats based admissions (within buckets defined by campus, major, state residency, and local area residency).
If you are like many NJ residents who want to go anywhere except Rutgers or other NJ state schools, moving to California early enough to get California residency for tuition purposes would be a desirable thing for you.
UCs don’t require recommendations, nor CSUs.
If interested in stem, it means you’d have 10 sterling public universities to choose from.
To see if you’re viable for UBC UCLA UCSD UCSB calculate your UC GPA. (You need a 4+ UC GPA for the first two and UCSD and UCSB around 4 ucgpa.)
What’s your EFC though?
Keep in mind that many