Undergraduate Business Schools in SoCal?

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<p>So I have had what one may call an epiphany. After writing a paper for my First Year Experience class at my current university, I was told I should look for something more challenging. My average grade is a 105%, and since I recently got back a final grade of 136%, I need something different. I was accepted to two schools back home, but I decided to follow my dreams as a freshman in high school, to go to California.</p>

<p>There are multiple reasons why I want to do so, including: job placement, business programs, rigor, etc.</p>

<p>That being said, I wanted to be in the Los Angeles area. I have acknowledged that some of the best business schools may not be in this area, so I am open to all schools in California, but this is my list that I currently picked out.</p>

<p>Occidental
Pepperdine
Loyola Marymount
UC Berkley
UCLA
UC Davis
SDSU
Whittier
University of San Diego
Cal State Los Angeles
Chapman
Cal Poly</p>

<p>Any other recommendations?</p>

<p>I finished high school with a 4.1, many interesting ec's and wonderful job experience.</p>

<p>Most of these schools are reaches financially, but what is your opinion of these business schools? My overall goal is to defer both offers from back home (as a safety net), go to community to take classes to fulfill my humanities or other non-business credits, and then wait to hear back from some or most of these schools. I don't expect to be accepted to all, but I am allowed to be a dreamer, right? </p>

<p>I am not looking for a chance, I just would like your input on these business programs.</p>

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<p>That is quite a list. If you’re talking business schools in So Cal, USC needs to be on the list for sure. </p>

<p>I would remove CSULA from the list, nothing against CSUs, but probably stick with SLO, SDSU, LB or CSUF. I don’t believe UCLA has a true undergrad business program (MBA is top notch). Not sure about Davis either. </p>

<p>OOS with good stats, you may find the privates aren’t any more expensive than the publics. </p>

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<p>For business, USC and the UC’s are strong. I agree with the above post on USC and the CSU’s.</p>

<p>With regards to the UC’s, only UC Riverside, UC Irvine and UC Berkeley have undergraduate business schools. You cannot be admitted to UC Berkeley’s Haas Business as a freshman. Haas admits only juniors and is very difficult to get into. Most Haas students are applicants from either UC Berkeley or community colleges and it is even more difficult to get in from somewhere else (i.e., another UC, CSU’s, other colleges). UCLA’s business economics is top notch and is an alternative to the UC undergraduate business schools. Some of the other UC’s such as Davis, Santa Barbara, etc. also have business economics similar to UCLA’s. It is true that you being OOS, the UC costs may be almost equivalent to USC’s private college costs. It might be about 10K less than USC’s, which runs around 60-65K.</p>