<p>I'm currently a freshman at UCR, undeclared. It's a fine place, but after doing some extensive research on UC Berkeley I feel like that is the college I would rather be attending, and I believe it better suits my interests (I'm undeclared, but I don't see a powerful major at UCR that I'm interested in).</p>
<p>So I was thinking I would transfer to a community college next year for financial reasons, and also since I know that the UC campuses give top priority spot to CCC's. However, would going to UCR initially hurt my chances of getting into Berkeley? Will they look at me transferring to CCC negatively?</p>
<p>It's a strange route to take, I know, but hopefully someone else out there has some experience. Thank you.</p>
<p>I recommend not waiting to start at a community college. If you can start in the winter or Spring do so asap. If you take the right amount of classes winter/spring summer fall 09, and winter sprint 10, you could potentially transfer in as a junior in the fall of '10 into ucb or any other UC without having wasting time or money.
The longer you wait the more classes get filled up.</p>
<p>hey, i was in a similar place as you last year. I went to UCSB and ended up leaving after my freshman year to goto a CCC. You really don't need to leave immediately if you plan out everything correctly. For me, i had already planned out my summer, fall, and spring classes at CCC during the beginning of the spring quarter. Just try to take as many GE classes and major pre reqs as you can. Whats your intended major?</p>
<p>I'm really not sure yet about my intended major. I'm not so much interested in the difficulty of moving from UCR to community college as I am interested in how Berkeley will view the move. Does anyone have any information on that?</p>
<p>all berkeley would look at when you apply is your gpa and the classes you took. it doesn't matter if you took them at harvard or cc, or ucr and then cc. your best bet in getting in is to transfer in through a CC, as they have more reasons to accept CC tranfers than they do students who are already at 4 year schools and have a place to finish a bachelor's degree.</p>