<p>Hello I will be attending a community college starting fall 2013 and would appreciate some help as to choosing which college to transfer too. The two colleges I was very interested in were Caltech and Harvey Mudd. I planning on majoring in computer science, however I love art and have been taking art classes since middle school and want to continue doing so. I also want to take sociology and political science classes. Naturally this made me lean more towards mudd however now Im not sure either of them are a good choice for me because neither seem very transfer friendly. </p>
<p>I should say from the start that I don't care about national prestige or rankings or anything like that (I think its all BS tbh) I want a college that will genuinely encourage me to learn. I don't want to choose a college just because of its brand name.
now Im quite frankly at a loss because Ive been looking at UCs and private schools but theres just so many options Im kind of freaking out. Any advice would be much appreciated. </p>
<p>P.S I live in California so a Cali school would be the best, though Im not totally opposed to out of state.</p>
<p>Last year Cal Tech admitted 5 out of 200+ applicants. [Common</a> Data Set - Caltech Financial Services](<a href=“http://finance.caltech.edu/Resources/cds]Common”>Common Data Set | Financial Services)</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd admitted 3 out of 120. [Common</a> Data Set | Harvey Mudd College](<a href=“http://www.hmc.edu/about1/administrativeoffices/deanoffaculty1/ir1/cds.html]Common”>Common Data Set | Institutional Research | Harvey Mudd College)</p>
<p>You do the math. If you will be attending a CCC then talk to your GC there about the path to the UCs and CSUs.</p>
<p>Definitely look at a broad range of schools in California and even outside. From your top two choices, you seem to be interested in smaller schools with an engineering focus. Look into the other [Association</a> of Independent Technological Universities: AITU](<a href=“http://theaitu.org%5DAssociation”>http://theaitu.org) schools which match that demographic as well as other smallish tech schools.</p>
<p>a lot of them do indeed look very interesting, i have to look into them more, but there are two problems with most of them. first i only intent on going out of state if i happen to completely fall in love with a particular college i would like to avoid it if possible but secondly and more importantly while i do prefer a smaller school setting i don’t necessarily want the focus to be on tech i want “academic diversity” the problem is that computer science and art/sociology/ect are usually on opposite ends of the spectrum.</p>