<p>I recently received admission from UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Northwestern. I will be studying economics/mathematics or business economics at these universities. At the moment, it's very difficult for me to choose among these schools. I would love some help. The following criteria are important to me:</p>
<p>applying to graduate school (I intend on going to an elite graduate school), social life, cost (I'm from California), sense of community, athletics</p>
<p>Any help would be amazing</p>
<p>Post your question on the regular UCLA forum. This forum is for potential freshman like yourself. Probably not the best people to advise you. My daughter is a sophomore at UCLA. Great education, great social life, athletics as well as beautiful campus and weather.</p>
<p>I got into both UCLA and Cal too, but ended up getting rejected from Northwestern. I was sad at first, but after visiting the campus (I’m from California too) I realized that even if I had gotten in I would have never gone there. As amazing as a school it is, visiting definitely helped with coming to terms with the fact I didn’t get it. </p>
<p>I don’t know if you want more of a big school or smaller school, but that makes a huuuuge difference and is a pretty big factor. UCLA and Cal both have around 25,000 undergrad students whereas Northwestern as around 3,000. Most of Northwestern’s classes have 20 people or less, which some people love the idea of, but not me. Their campus, which is beautiful, is incredibly small too. It’s only 1 mile by 3/4 of a mile. They said you can walk from one end of campus to the other in around 20 minutes. Not to mention their weather is completely different from California’s, northern or southern. </p>
<p>You could always go to Cal or UCLA, which are both amazing schools, for undergrad, and then go to Northwestern for graduate school which I’ve heard has a great business econ graduate school.</p>