<p>Hi, </p>
<p>I was accepted to Berkeley's engineering college as undeclared and UCLA's college of Letters & Sciences life sciences undeclared. </p>
<p>I am interested in engineering, but I'm not 100% sure that I want to major in engineering. I also plan on going to grad school, but I am not sure whether or not I want to continue engineering in grad school or try go to go med grad school.</p>
<p>Also my parents are suggesting that I go to UCLA because I live in SoCal and they think that having a 6 hour drive is too much of a hassle to choose Berkeley over UCLA.</p>
<p>So which school should I go to??</p>
<p>If you are not sure whether you want to major in engineering, and don’t have a strong personal preference for either school, I’d go to the school that your parents want.</p>
<p>If you are worried about a six hour drive once in a while in order to attend one of the top institutions in the world and top 3 in engineering, then maybe it would be best that you attend the closest community college to your home.</p>
<p>this will solve all of your “traveling” problems.</p>
<p>I know of someone who left from berkley’s engineering program because of how cocky a lot of students are. Apparently a lot of students at the school are extremely competitive when it comes to classes, which is fine, however he says it’s to the point where most of the students dont want to help you, and will even try telling you the wrong things just so you screw it up.</p>
<p>Just food for thought</p>
<p>Remember to keep your plans flexible. You will find out a lot about yourself once you start college. One of my son’s friends at UCLA was an engineering major Pre-Med. He figured that engineering would be a good back-up career in case he didn’t get into Med School. He earned a super high gpa in all his classes, and got several medical school admission offers, but turned them all down and decided to stick with engineering. Why? Because he liked the cameraderie of the UCLA engineering students. So he instead got a Master’s in engineering and is now happily employed at a high paying engineering firm. </p>
<p>Good Luck to you wherever you decide to go. :)</p>