Transferring out of UC Berkeley...

Transfer Students
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<p>Thank you for your response :slight_smile: I am now attending El Camino College locally and working 19 hours a week. I’m enrolled in 16 units right now, and I’m considering upping that next semester to make up for lost time. A part of me though wants to take it easier and just I don’t know, enjoy it more, but another part of me wants to hurry up and make sure i’m not behind.</p>

<p>I’m mainly lost on the transfer process itself now. I want to stay local in the LA area, and I was thinking of transfering to USC, Occidental, Cal State Pomona, Claremont colleges, CSU LB? I do want to stay away from the entire UC system though, just to stay safe I guess, though i’m sure UCLA is differen than UC Berkeley. I guess I’m struggling with picking schools because I’m still concerned about the “drop down” if you will in prestige. I honestly don’t think it matters, but I’m worried how it would effect my future in either grad school placement or jobs. But I guess this is things to discuss with my councilor once I have the opportunity to do so.</p>

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<p>Mocha: I’m sorry I didn’t notice the date. </p>

<p>You may have to pick schools based on cost. Transfers don’t get a lot of money, but if you plan on doing being a research assistant in grad school, you will earn pay for helping with research. Believe me-it doesn’t matter where you go to school, it matters what you do and how you go about doing it.
Consider SLO or Pomona. One of the grads of the hs tennis team attends SLO and loves it. She said its in the middle of nowhere but that somehow binds the students and staff. Good Luck, you’ll do well!</p>

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<p>I start at Cal Poly Pomona in a little over two weeks from now. Just fyi, no one calls it Cal State Pomona. Same for SLO. It felt like a very welcoming environment at orientation. I wouldn’t exactly suggest coming here though if you are going to major in math and want to do research. I think anything else is safe. I also live right by the Claremont colleges. Keep your head up. </p>

<p>It depends on what you want to do, but I think Cal Poly grads do better than most other Cal State’s. I know I want to enter biostatistics and want to have an edge by doing research in it, but there aren’t very many opportunities to that specific kind of research at Pomona. So, I am putting in a few applications for transfer as a senior and will see what happens because I desperately want to research during the year rather than pray and hope I get a summer internship/reu. I’d say this specicifcally applies to math majors (my dillema). Physics majors get a lot of research opportunities here as well as others but not really math. I’d say hold off on thinking about where to transfer to until you figure out what exactly it is that you want to do. You can’t go wrong with Cal Poly engineering (if you decide you want to get back on the horse again), hospitality, or architecture here. There’s a lot of other stuff going on here as well. Pretty sure a Cal Poly graduate will be looked on more favorably than most other Cal State grads. Pomona and SLO both have a good reputation with industry.</p>

<p>Not quite sure that UCLA is different than Berkeley by much. I can’t say that Pomona is the most social place. If you like partying and lots of beach fun, go to Long Beach. I can’t speak for their academics, but I personally know a master’s student there that loves it (history grad).</p>

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<p>Thank you for the detailed response. I think I’m going to jump back on the chemE horse so to speak, and try for cal poly pomona and csulb since those are the two that have chemE. Hopefully I can pull a good GPA in college and transfer. A big reason I’m thinking of csulb is because I can commute from home which would save money. I looked at usc and they have nanoenigneering as part of their undergrad chemE which seems interesting as well. However, I don’t know how well regarded USC’s engineering program is. Honestly, I just want to graduate and find a job really.</p>