<p>I will be doing the community college route to get into UCBerkeley (fingers crossed). I live kinda between West Valley and De Anza but I am closer to De Anza. I want to go to West Valley because it is Semester, smaller, apparently better one-on-one attention with professors and a pretty campus (De anza is ugly in my opinion) however De Anza is closer (I will be taking a bus), has better transfer rates to all the UC's including Berkeley, and I can get into the honors program right out of high school instead of waiting a semester like at West Valley. What do you think I should do? any opinions or comments would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>But I can imagine enjoying West Valley whereas De Anza I feel like I will suffer for those two years. My head says De Anza, my heart says West Valley.</p>
<p>If you want to be challenged in math and science (depending on which professors you take), go to De Anza. I'm a De Anza student also, but I didn't dare take physics with Professor Newton at De Anza. Instead, I take physics at Foothill and usually, nearly half of my class are De Anza students!</p>
<p>Usually, the better math and science lecturers are the difficult professors who have low ratings on ratemyprofessor.com. The easier professors are usually the ones that are poor lecturers. I take a mixture of these depending on my quarter courseload.</p>
<p>haha what if I dont want to be challenged in Math and Science. I am planning on majoring in something in Humanities, most likely History or Literature.</p>
<p>At De Anza, I've taken history and a few other humanities classes for GE requirements. I took mostly evening or online classes though and the students aren't quite engaging during the discussions. I'm one of them, lol.</p>
<p>this is probably completely biased bc im a foothill/de anza student, but the honors program & choosing to attend foothill/de anza was probably the best academic decision i ever made. </p>
<p>I'm a commuter myself so I can't really say. There are a lot of students hanging out on campus when compared to Foothill though. Walking around campus, it seems like De Anza has much, much, much more students than Foothill. I haven't been to West Valley, I only know a few students who took physics there because they couldn't hack it at De Anza and Foothill.</p>
<p>I've bussed(sp?) from San Jose to De Anza and Foothill before. It takes me 1.5 hours on the 25 bus from San Jose to De Anza. It takes another 25 minutes on the 23 bus from De Anza to Foothill College.</p>
<p>I only bussed for a month before I gave up and fixed my car. :)
It's not too bad, I would have continued to bus but it hurts my neck to look down and read a textbook on my lap. (3 hour round trip each day, 5 days a week = lots of study hours lost if I don't read)</p>
<p>Im about to be starting the physics sequence for engineering. Is the physics good or bad at de anza. If it is bad, are people saying that because it is a very tough subject or due to bad teachers? Thank you.</p>