“The internships I do during my undergrad years will be extremely important when applying to these highly selective jobs and I won’t have access to these opportunities at UCI.”
You can get those internships while at UCI. A friend of ours had a kid from a Midwest college spend a summer interning at Microsoft for an obscene amount of money. They aren’t picky where you come from if they like your resume.
In an earlier post you said you were going to grad school. Now you’re saying you’re pursuing a “highly selective job”. Guess what? You can do either of those from UCI.
If you’re so down on UCI, why didn’t you stay at Riverside?