<p>Hi, I am not sure which forum will be the most appropriate one to post but here's my situation.
I got accepted into Cal's College of Environmental Design for Fall 2007, not so lucky with USC. My goal is to get into an undergrad business school. If I attend Cal, I will aim to apply for Haas for junior year, acceptance rate is about 60%. I don't know if I should do that or attend a community college (Mt. Sac.) and transfer to USC's Marshall (I think the acceptance rate is around 60% too). I like USC better because of its trojan family network and near LA. But my parents think I am making a big mistake turning down Cal and going to a community college, I need some advise to get back on track.</p>
<p>Go To Cal!!!</p>
<p>why did you apply as environmental design? Um, well, since its obvious that anything near env. design is not in your best interest, then i would suggest either going to Cal and just taking general ed classes (+ classes required for haas), OR going to a cc, get the general classes out of the way by paying less than you would at cal.</p>
<p>Go to cal, just switch majors if it isn't what you want.</p>
<p>barklee >> usc</p>
<p>what if I attend Cal and take the required courses for Haas and Marshall and see which one I got accepted to? Is it going to help me if I transfer from a top UC to USC?</p>
<p>If you're a tree hugher, a neo-hippie or a radical left-wing and like a lot of utopia, go to CAL, otherwise anywhere else would be better.</p>
<p>Go to Cal, apply to Marshall and USC during your soph year. Courseload difficulty from the school itself is a factor that all adcom's will consider (duhhh). </p>
<p>Cal isn't necessary very liberal, i've heard it's very apathetic actually. I've got many friends at Cal who are right wing conservatives, along with left wing liberals. The similarities between both? They don't get into much political action, they're just bumblin along with their school, work, partying, etc.</p>
<p>walnut, I thought of that before, I think I am going to follow that route.</p>
<p>Go to Cal. Marshall does not come close to matching Haas...</p>
<p>Well the two business school have different approaches.</p>
<p>Marshall is a 4 year program and uses "concentration" approach where they teach you the basics of all areas of business (real estate, management, MIS, finance, accounting, economics, etc) for three years and in your last year you choose one area to focus on and concentrate on that one area (sort of like your speciality).</p>
<p>Haas is a 2 year program and uses the traditional Business program. They teach you a bit of everything and does not focus on one specific area. </p>
<p>If your goal is to learn a well-rounded education where you get to learn every aspect of business, go for Haas.</p>
<p>If you have a specific area of interest, go for Marshall.</p>
<p>but it comes down to where you want to work. </p>
<p>Nor Cal = Haas
So Cal = Marshall</p>