<p>This is something I have been considering. I've only applied to UCSD, LA and CAL. I got into UCSD but my dream school has always been CAL. I know I have a real good chance at CAL, but if I don't get in this year I might consider staying at my cc for another year to try again. Any of you guys would consider doing the same?</p>
<p>What’s the financial aid offer for UCSD? Did you get into UCLA? If you have a decent financial aid offer from UCSD then I’d probably go there. Berkeley may be your dream school, but personally I think you’d be a fool to pass up a good opportunity like that just because you really want to go to Cal. If you didn’t get that great of an offer from UCSD I’d be a bit more understanding though.</p>
<p>I will seriously consider staying another year at the community college, because I only applied to USC, UCLA, and UCSB. At the time, I thought I wanted to go to USC. I was only applying to a couple UC’s for the heck of it. Now looking back, I should have applied to Cal and UCSD, and davis. Hopefully I will get into LA though, that would be a way better route.</p>
<p>I’m definitely staying if I get rejected from Cal.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine going anywhere else.</p>
<p>^ Have you visited other UC’s?</p>
<p>Pardon me, but don’t you think this sort of attitude seems close-minded?</p>
<p>I agree with beardy, it seems extremely close-minded. What a waste of time staying at CC just to take another shot at getting into your undergrad program of choice. Why even waste the money applying to other schools then? </p>
<p>UCSD is a great school in a great environment, but I think you’re just stuck on the prestige factor of Berkeley, which doesn’t really matter until grad school anyway.</p>
<p>I would say stay another year only if you were able to do something along the lines of TAP where you have a 90%+ ish chance of getting in. </p>
<p>Even if you did stay another year and brought up your GPA, there’s still a good chance you may get rejected again thereby wasting that extra year you stayed in CC. </p>
<p>If I was in your position, I would only stay if I was almost positive that I would get in.</p>
<p>beardy,</p>
<p>If his dream is to go to cal, let him. This doesn’t make him close minded. If he is so dead set on going to cal, he probably has his reasons.</p>
<p>agreed with erikuh. what if you don’t get in your 2nd time? :(</p>
<p>best of luck!</p>
<p>I respect his decision, but each of our biases differ according to what each of us is willing to sacrifice.</p>
<p>I too have a dream school but am not willing to postpone my education in hopes of being possibly admitted into it.</p>
<p>Good luck however.</p>
<p>I’m not saying UCB is better than all other schools.
I have personal reasons (mostly financial concerns) to stay in the Bay Area which vastly outweigh any advantages that other UCs could offer. Berkeley is the best fit in my case.</p>
<p>I narrowly missed the TAP deadline because I didn’t even know UCB offered TAP. :(</p>
<p>Same here. I only spent 1 year in CC, so it won’t hurt me as much to stay another year. I will just have to improve my GPA and probably work more, which I wanted anyway.</p>
<p>I’ve been accepted to Davis and Irvine so far, and UC Irvine offered me some decent amount of FA. Though CAL and UCLA are my dream school, I wouldn’t mind going into UC Irvine either.
I really don’t know what to do if I don’t get accepted to CAL and UCLA next week : (</p>
<p>If you get rejected this year, what makes you think you wont get rejected next year (especially if you’re applying for an impacted major)?</p>
<p>It seems like any decent gpa has a shot at a non impacted major(3.4+) Adding a .1 to your gpa won’t be that significance, if anything it seems like transfer admissions will be more competitive in the future(if all those students who started attending cc because of the recession follow through and transfer)</p>
<p>You could do a lot in a year to improve your chances.</p>
<p>My problem is that I don’t have enough ECs.</p>
<p>wilco i actually did this when i got rejected from my goal school last year, in the meantime ive switched to a non impacted major, and added some ECs under my belt, and im hopeful for this year.</p>
<p>Im actually considering the possibility of staying another year as well in case i dont get into UCLA. For me, staying another year wont be a problem since i am currently trying to skip one year ahead of my class. And if i stay another year, I can take it easy. Probably go study aboard somewhere. </p>
<p>But that’s IF i dont get into UCLA. hope for the best!</p>
<p>Schools with high prestigue like UCB have a lot of students with “The Princeton Syndrome”. These are students who work so hard to get into a school and then once they are accepted begin to slack off and then fail out. These are people who just want to bragg that they are attending “insert awesome sweet-ish school here”. If you apply for UCB this year and get rejected while being accepted to another great university like UCSD but turn it down because UCB is your “dream school” how does that look? Not saying you are this person, but my guess is if they see this they could assume you are turning down a great education just for UCB. It shows getting an education is not your priority, going to UCB is. Without a really good reason for this decision I feel UCB would see you fitting into that “Princeton Syndrome” category and you would be phrucked! :(</p>
<p>Well, to my fairness, I’m working my butt off so that I can relax at a 4-year. I intend on staying at whatever UC i transfer to for 3 years since that is when my class stays on track for (I’m Class of 08). </p>
<p>Princeton syndrome? nah, more like I just want to enjoy my life before it’s too late.</p>
<p>^I’m thinking the same thing…but I’m also double majoring.</p>
<p>Luckily most of the classes I need for my film major seem like crazy fun/interesting.</p>
<p>You should also consider the maximum amount of transferable units you are allowed to take.</p>
<p>And I agree with liek0806.
There’s no guarantee that your grades will improve significantly OR if it will even matter. If financial opportunities allow, go to your “second” dream school. I don’t know about you… but for me another year at CC would be so dreadful.</p>