Transfer from UC Berkeley

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I am a freshmen at UC Berkeley. Initially planned on studying Business at the Haas school of business, but a month into college I realized that there are so many different things I could learn and hence I am completely undecided about my major.</p>

<p>I find Berkeley very large in terms of class sizes and there is no personalized attention. Even attending office hours are tough since there are so many people who want to do the same. I therefore feel that I need to transfer as I believe I am the kind of person who learns better in a smaller environment.</p>

<p>I would appreciate if someone could help me out with this. I am a US citizen but an international student since I studied in India all my life. Have an ACT score of 32, Math 2 subject test of 790 and math 1 of 730 as well as good grades in high school. Have really good extra curriculars and a bunch of internships. I am looking for a smaller school where I can get personalized attention. I haven't decided on my major but am leaning towards economics but would like to experiment a bit with engineering and computer science. (Maybe create my own major). I would also like the college to have a certain amount of activity taking place on campus such as clubs, parties etc. The weather is not too much of an issue but I would prefer if it doesn't get to cold.</p>

<p>I was looking at Claremont McKenna. Could someone give me their views and suggest other schools as well.</p>

<p>Thanks a lot</p>

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<p>Aside from Claremont McKenna, you can also look into Santa Clara University which has good placement records at Silicon Valley offices, perhaps due to its proximity.</p>

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<p>What other places did you apply to when you were applying to Berkeley? Where else were you accepted? Are you still interested in any of them? If so, pick up the phone, call the admissions office(s) and ask what you would need to do to reactivate your application. Who knows, you might be able to shift to a new college/university for second semester!</p>

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<p>I was admitted to NYU, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA and UMich - Ann Arbor</p>

<p>All these college have the same problem of being large :(</p>

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Berkeley is a great place for your interests. Of course lower-division core freshman classes are large. Classes get a lot smaller as you move into upper division.</p>

<p>My suggestion would be to do CS in the College of Letters and Science and do an Econ minor.</p>