<p>I got graduated recently from highschool and had got accepted in one of the best universities in the region,but however i really wanna go to one of the UC's by getting in one of the CCC's.Moreover, do you think that this is a risk if i didnt get accepted in one of the UC's(I mean after i got accepted in a really good university) and is it hard to score high in the CCC's.In addition, Is the CCC Student Life is good?</p>
<p>P.S. Am outside the US</p>
<p>According to what an international student in my o-chem class said, he pays $3000 per year at CC and if he were to transfer to a UC, he’d be paying $50,000. I’m assuming that he’s not lying as I can’t find the information myself via quick google search.</p>
<p>I think thats is not true … an international student would pay aprox. 35,000$ pear year living on campus</p>
<p>I checked the UCB website for estimated costs for non-resident on-campus living. It looks like it adds up to $41,234 per year. Here’s the site:</p>
<p><a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/general.asp?id=26[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/general.asp?id=26</a></p>
<p>Using <a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/general.asp?id=26[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/general.asp?id=26</a>
Total: $28,312
**Non-resident tuition and fees add $22,670
Adjusted total: $50,982</p>
<p>Thus, he was not lying.</p>
<p>I stand corrected. WrenchFries is right. I replaced the in-state fees with the non-resident fees instead of adding… my bad.</p>
<p>=/ … i had some calculation mistakes :X … but what do you people think of the CSU’s for Undergraduate Bachelors are they good university system ??</p>
<p>Depends on your major. For instance, Cal Poly SLO is known for engineering.</p>
<p>My eldest son just started his sophomore year as a Geology major at CSU Sacramento which is very representative of the CSUs. The biggest problem he is having is getting into the lower division courses he needs to take as part of his major such as Calculus, Physics and Chemistry. I doubt he will be able to graduate in four years. The CSUs traditionally have received far less funding from the state than the UCs and with California facing a severe budget crises, money for higher education has been cut drastically and the CSUs have borne the brunt of the cutbacks. Many sections of courses have been cancelled resulting in students not being able to take courses that they should be taking as freshmen and sophomores until their junior or senior years. </p>
<p>As far as academics go, my son is using the same Calculus text that science and engineering majors at UC Berkeley use for his Calculus sequence. The Calculus based Physics text they use is just as rigorous as the ones used at any UC. The problem is that my son barely got into Calculus and still has not been able to get into a Physics or Chemistry course because so few sections are offered in these subjects and quickly fill up with upper classmen who have registration priority. He has just started the basic Geology course this semester since he was not able to take it as a Freshman even though it is the basic introductory course for his major.</p>
<p>Besides reduced funding another part of the problem is, and I do not want to seem cruel but the statistics seem to confirm it, is that lower division courses are clogged with students who are not really capable of doing college level work and will never obtain their degrees. At CSU Sacramento only 42% of entering freshmen eventually graduate with a bachelor’s degree and this is pretty typical of all other CSUs except Cal Poly SLO which has a student body more characteristic of the mid-tier UCs than the other CSUs. The average SAT combined CR and Math score for freshmen enrolling at CSU Sacramento is about 960. My son had a combined CR + Math score of 1260. While students with SAT scores of 1200/1600 or better nearly always manage to earn their Bachelor’s degree, students who score less than 1000/1600 generally lack the ability to earn a four year degree. The state believes that the UCs are elite institutions and has set high minimum acceptance criteria for them but also believes everyone should have a chance to go to a four year university so minimum admission criteria for the CSUs is set very low. The result is that there are many students who have little chance of ever graduating filling up the very limited number of openings available in entry level courses making it very hard to fulfill basic required courses. In hindsight, it would probably have been better to have started at a community college and fulfilled prerequisites there and then transfer as a Junior to a CSU by which time most of the students with weak credentials who started as freshmen will be gone.</p>