<p>so it makes no difference to the admission or experience i’d have going to a religious uni?</p>
<p>What can you say about San Diego State’s business programs?</p>
<p>your best matches seem to be the same as mine
USC, USD, and UCI. out of the three usc has the best school hands down, however it is harder to get in to and the city…is the ghetto.
USD is expensive and its ranking/rep is very similar to UCI.
I do not know what your talking about saying the UCI campus is bad, its an awsome campus in an incredabily clean city. Its also the cheapest of the three…hence it is my first choice.</p>
<p>kk. thanks for the feedback. i only got the info about UCI from this forum, so maybe im wrong! thankss!! more feedback is always nice!</p>
<p>any more feedback from anyone??</p>
<p>UC Irvine just started their undergraduate business program last year. They are accepting only 15 transfer students next fall (2010) and not sure how many freshman applicants. </p>
<p>UC Riverside I was considering a bit too until I realized that just because it has UC next to the name doesn’t mean it’s good, and it’s in Riverside hah.</p>
<p>CSU Fullerton just built a brand new business school, it’s pretty sexy and it serves as the biggest business school in California. But, it’s a commuter school (unless you are one of the 800 who live on campus, I guess). </p>
<p>CSU Long Beach has an impacted program, but I think that’s just because people want to live in Long Beach. </p>
<p>It seems that money / where in California isn’t really options for you, just the best (but not Berkley best). I’d say USC, or San Diego, or somewhere that will give you the 4-year experience in a populated city.</p>
<p>kk thanks. ya good anaylsis of those schools.</p>
<p>ya im thinkn USC, and then san diego. also probably cal poly slo and santa clara. if i could get into one of those id be happy. thanks man.</p>
<p>also, are there any 5 year MBA / ba programs that could work for me?? i think u usually get experience and then do the mba, but are there anything like that that could work??</p>
<p>UCLA and Pepperdine, google is your friend btw :). Forums take long and can be inaccurate, just search the school websites or google “5 year MBA [school here]”</p>
<p>I’m not sure if you are a high school student, but i’m guessing you are if you say weighted in the first post. and I haven’t read every post in this thread, but here’s some of my utterings or points.</p>
<p>Have you considered transferring? If you aren’t lazy or haven’t taken any college courses at a community college, you start off with a new slate, take new courses and build up that gpa.</p>
<p>Its definitely difficult to transfer to Haas, but most people don’t make the right choices when choosing their course load when they try to transfer. If you plan carefully you can get a 4.0 at community college, and start some own independent projects, business wise or your own interest and you’ll be able to transfer to Haas, USC, or any other business school in california. UC Irvine just opened a business school, which I think could possibly do well in a couple of years. Seriously, consider trying to transfer and taking courses at a community college, don’t worry about the stigma with your friends or whatnot and if they give you crap then they aren’t really looking out for your best interests, if you have the work ethic, then you can go to community college and transfer to any top business school in California, I’ve read a lot of posts and seen quite a few people follow this route and be successful</p>
<p>Good Luck</p>
<p>One thing I would like to add is if your worried about social life and costs Pepperdine is a very flat choice. People think oh malibu! its the beach and the greatest place on earth! NOT. I’m on campus three days a week and as a local I know the town/college very well…it sucks. You could probably not even pay me to go “here”. The social life is not dead…its non-existant. If you want a real beach town with fun Santa Barbara or San Diego are much better choices with legit schools. I hate to talk **** about my own city, but its the truth.</p>
<p>^ I’m going to second what this guy said. Pepperdine is very religious. Its beautiful location is definitely wasted on an extremely weak social life.</p>
<p>ok thanks guys. im considering community college. but i heard its super crowded now and with budget cuts its gonna be really hard to take classes there. i tried to take a class over the summer there and EVERY class it offered was full. also, 2 years is actually a REALLY long time and im not sure if i quite have the work ethic. i think i’ll just go with the not top tier (USC & Berk) i’ll try USC. but pretty sure i’ll get into a couple of: U San Diego, Santa Clara, U Miami, Cal Poly SLO, and I’d get a good social and academic experience there. if i dont make any of those. i would consider community college over say sdsu or asu or something like that.</p>
<p>thanks, yeah i dont think im gonna apply to pepperdine. and you just confirmed it. SB sounds awesome, but they dont have the business major. when you say san diego, do you mean ucsd, usd, or sdsu?? hahaha</p>
<p>any more advice is always welcomed. 
thanks guys.</p>
<p>UC Santa Barbara or UC Santa Cruz? The UC’s are getting hard to get into, but you have a great shot at them. I think you would like USD also. Santa Clara is good and well respected. You could even venture to Colorado and apply to Univ of Denver - Daniels school of business.</p>
<p>thanks marcus. well i like those schools. i went to camp at ucsb and i loved it and maybe that could help me get in. but both dont have business majors… they just have business econ, which from what i heard is mainly all econ with a few accounting courses, and completely different that a typical business degree… im considering them thouugh. thanks</p>
<p>I wouldn’t recommend USC anymore because of the costs. It’s getting consistently more expensive by the year, and its undergraduate business program / etc. doesn’t simply stack up against Berkeley in my opinion. </p>
<p>But it depends on what kind of business you want to do. If you’re more financially based in terms of accounting, economics, etc - go to Berkeley. They have one of the top finance programs for undergraduates in the nation.</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna would be 2nd best after Haas. It is very selective though.</p>
<p>Why hasn’t SDSU been mentioned? Aren’t they one of the better undergrad business schools in California? Especially when it comes to the public universities.</p>
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And just in case you don’t know, the business economics major will be phased out by the Fall 2011 quarter. It will be replaced by a new major called “economics and accounting,” which just requires a few more accounting courses than the old business economics major.</p>
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<p>It’s in a whole different league than the UCs. Job prospects would not be nearly as good. The OP would be better off going from a CC to UC or at a private like SCU if he can afford it.</p>