<p>I'm a senior in High School and was looking at my options for what college I should attend this coming fall. I didn't do so well in high school giving me a GPA of 2.9. I want to major in Economics or Business Economics and the colleges that I have gotten into are:</p>
<p>CSU Long Beach
CSU Fullerton
CSU Northridge
CSU LA
University of Houston
University of Redlands
Arizona State University</p>
<p>I wanted to know if any of you had suggestions for on whether I should attend one of these universities or go to a CCC probably San Fran CCC since this CCC has more applicants that transfer from there to UC Berkley? Please let me know and thank you ahead of time(:</p>
<p>I would go to community college to save money, if you don’t get good financial aid; however, if you like one of the schools that accepted you, GO!!! :)</p>
<p>Did you apply to any UC’s?
There is a difference between UC’s and Cal State’s.
UC’s are research-based and Cal State’s are teaching schools.
If you would like to go to UC Berkley, I would suggest going to a CCC first. This will allow you to save money and improve your GPA. Econ/ Biz Econ majors are <strong>extremely</strong> competitive. You should shoot for a 3.85 GPA minimum. IMO, UCB is the hardest UC to get into, so you really need a stronger GPA.</p>
<p>CCs local to a UC or CSU are more likely to have courses that are exact articulation matches for the courses at that UC or CSU (see [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) ).</p>
<p>For example, Laney and Diablo Valley CCs near Berkeley are among the better ones for taking lower division CS courses for the CS major at Berkeley. Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo matches Cal Poly’s courses better than most CCs.</p>
<p>CSU Long Beach is a really great school. Why don’t you major in business there? UCs don’t really have business majors and the ones that do are extremely impacted. Transferring from a ccc is not going to be easy, especially for business. You’re chances to actually transfer to Berkeley are pretty low. I would go to a CSU and major in business. You really can’t go wrong with that choice.</p>
<p>The Chronicle and The Examiner aren’t even worthy as lining to litter boxes across the Bay Area, let alone as papers of record.</p>
<p>As a CCSF student I have to say what the media reports is a lot of ********. Administration, especially the puppet recently installed by Head Puppet Ed Lee, is nuts. The teachers and level of difficulty in classes are both challenging. </p>
<p>That said, if you’re not from SF, it’s damn expensive to live her right now. Rents are skyrocketing.</p>
<p>emprex brings up a great point. My CC happened to have UCB TAP and it helped me a lot. Its a great help if you are eligible. Also, your HS GPA won’t matter. CC you start fresh. But if you’re shooting for UCB, you really need to make GPA a very high priority! Good luck!</p>
<p>In my honest opinion, go to CCSF. I was pretty reluctant to attend CCSF at first, but I quickly realized the amount of flexibility and opportunity that is offered by the plethora of diverse classes you can take there.The classes are really cheap, and you will have free reign to explore your interests at your own pace. There are many worthwhile and challenging classes that are offered at CCSF that aren’t offered at 4-year universities. (I strongly recommend you take Prof. G. Boyd’s classes if you’re even remotely interested in computer science.)</p>
<p>Miraculously, I have had little trouble in obtaining the classes I needed/wanted, (despite what the media says,) and I am now on track to be a competitive applicant at UCB, UCLA, and UCI for Fall 2014 with IGETC, my prerequisites, and Honors courses completed by spring 2014!
By the way, I’m a two year transfer with 0 AP credits.</p>
<p>CCSF was a great opportunity and learning experience for me. I can honestly say that I am glad that I chose to attend college here instead of SIR’ing to a UC when I was in high school. (well, I probably missed a great social life :(… )</p>
<p>And as zimzam mentioned, I highly doubt that CCSF will close down any time soon.</p>
<p>if not CCSF, Skyline college is pretty good too? I know someone got into UC Berkeley from Skyline college with a 3.3 last year. And my friend told me at skyline, it’s easier to get classes too. I heard CCSF classes get full very quickly and it’s hard to sign up for the classes every student needs but yeah I’m not sure. Again, go to any CC would definitely have better chances of getting into a UC. you def won’t need a 4.0 gpa or even 3.5 and could get you to a really good UC. Plus you could do TAG (but not for UC Berkeley though) if you would like to apply to other UC like UC Davis, Irvine…etc for back up plans.</p>
<p>I want to be a math major and am enrolling for summer, I guess credit classes for science are easier to find but im more interested in electives whereby a lot of interesting classes are not available. Care to fill me in?? Seems like all CCs lack the interesting elective classes in their schedule even though they do have them in their brochures…</p>
<p>I’m a Cognitive Science/ Computer Science major.
What sort of elective classes are you particularly interested in? It’s true that there aren’t many fascinating classes offered during the summer, but there are many introductory classes offered that can potentially get you interested in a particular field. CCSF’s computer science department is very good in my opinion.</p>
<p>As for math, I found it difficult to enroll in Calculus I in Fall 2012, and I ended up being placed on a waitlist for an evening class at the Chinatown campus. I decided to not to take Calc I that semester due to schedule constraints/location and am taking it now instead. That was the only incident where I faced enrollment issues.</p>
<p>Ouch that’s bad isn’t it, its important to take a math every term(cal I,II,III) so as to complete prereqs yea?</p>
<p>i’m interested in music(ear training), marine biology(particularly aquarium which only orange coast college provides). other then these, I feel contented with the other IGETCs even though Im kinda fascinated with scriptwriting which some colleges offer.</p>
<p>Then again I guess I can take these courses after I transfer to a 4 year college…</p>
<p>cool, Im interested in being a math/comp sci major, though I’m more interested in mastering C++… read from forum its best to take java instead if u wanna enter cal??
What comp sci modules did u take?</p>
<p>I’ve taken both C++ and Java, as well as Unix Shell Scripting! I’m currently taking intermediate C++ (CS110B.)
Really, I don’t think that the language preferences of the schools you want to transfer too is all too important. The skills you learn from one language (variable declaration, arrays, functions/methods, loops, etc.) can all be fairly easily transferred to another language you want to learn. The only difference is the syntax (or grammar) of the code.</p>
<p>I highly recommend that you take Professor Boyd’s CS160A/B classes if you want to learn a lot of interesting things about computer science! I found them to be more in depth and challenging than the “traditional” programming classes.</p>
<p>nice… can’t wait to be there and get involved. </p>
<p>but I just got off the phone with a agent which represents De Anza in my country. Will see how it goes. I’m just worried of being stereotyped and housing matters like homestay(read some good and bad news online) or hostel etc. .</p>
Plus you could do TAG (but not for UC Berkeley though) if you would like to apply to other UC like UC Davis, Irvine…etc for back up plans.</p>