UCI v. CSUF v. CSULB

<p>I am a transfer student and am applying for Fall 2015, any advice is appreciated. </p>

<p>So far, I've decided to stay in Orange County. My boyfriend is going to go to CSUF, and we will plan on getting married in the next year or so. As for me, I'm still weighing my options on where to go. </p>

<p>I'm a biology major. as for career plans, I'm not into the med school track or anything like that, I want to be a stay-at-home mom when I have kids someday, and rejoin the workforce when they are grown enough (or find a good career that lets me spend lots of time at home). So as for careers, I may just work at whatever company, later get a master's or something like that. I've considered going into teaching, becoming a genetics counselor, or dental hygienist too. But haven't settled on anything. So I'm just pushing ahead with my biology degree. </p>

<p>For the past 3 years I have been at a Community College. I have a 3.42 GPA, and at the end of spring semester, I will have completed my year of Calculus, year of O Chem, Cell Bio class, and Genetics class. I finished my Gen Chem year during summer, and have completed 61 Units so far (I will have more 26 more when I finish my classes in spring.) I also have units from AP Tests (Stats, Bio, Human Geo, Macroecon, Gov't, English Lit, English Lang, European History, and U.S History) that I didn't count yet. </p>

<p>I'm going to apply to CSUF, CSULB, and UCI. I don't know what my chances for them will be, but assuming I get into all, I'm trying to decide which I will choose. I'm eligible for financial aid, and I'm pretty sure I would qualify for UC's Blue and Gold (my parents make <40k) but I don't know how marriage (whenever that will happen) will affect my financial aid. </p>

<p>Which campus will be the cheapest? Where can I finish the quickest? Which university has the best biology program? </p>

<p>Sorry for the long spiel, thanks for reading and the comments/advice in advance!</p>

<p>If you are living at home and eligible for financial aid, your costs will likely be close to the same for all of those schools.
UCI is a better school for a hard science like Bio so, that would be my first choice - though the others are fine.
I think you are a good candidate for all 3 though and would encourage you to apply to them all and see what happens. You are probably eligible for the TAG (transfer guarantee) at UCI, Look into it here:
<a href=“http://services.admissions.uci.edu/admissions/tag.html”>http://services.admissions.uci.edu/admissions/tag.html&lt;/a&gt;
Nice work so far and good luck.</p>

<p>I think they are all commutable.</p>

<p>TAG deadline is 9/30!</p>