what should I do with all the competition in California?

Transfer Students
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<p>I admit, I'm undisciplined when it comes to school work. </p>

<p>The problem is that the competition is fierce in california and after spending few years in a different state, I need to move to California to be there for my mom. </p>

<p>I'm hoping of transferring into a decent school in cali but with my grades after couple years at a state university, I don't think it will happen, so I feel hopeless and clueless in a way. </p>

<p>I applied to transfer from out of state for fall 05 but they are big reaches in my opinion. I guess my choice would be to go to a community college and retake all the main courses and take additional courses.. then reapply. I'm turning 21 this year... can't believe I'm already this old.</p>

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<p>Most of our K-12 sucks. I think we are second worst after texas. But our UNiv are great. GO figure.</p>

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<p>Well u shouldn't feel hopeless.</p>

<p>I know people getting into Cal states w/ a 2.0 from a City college.</p>

<p>Stats schools in cali give priority to CC students.</p>

<p>ur age is meaningless. You still have the majority of ur life ahead of u.</p>

<p>Moving to be w/ ur mom is admirable thing to do.</p>

<p>Just work on ur work habits a bit. Go to assist.org find the right course w/ the nearest CC and u'll be transfering in no time.</p>

<p>good luck.</p>

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<p>thanks for your kind words highschoolda</p>

<p>My mom's dream was to live in california as soon and she moved there recently, but with the high costs of living and my mom being a single parent with low income and no formal education, it's really hard for her to make it out there. She calls me often wishing that I come live with her and finish school there. I'm moving in a couple months, REGARDLESS of whether i'll be able to transfer into any school or have to start over... so I'm a bit concerned of what I'm going to do or where I'll end up.</p>

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<p>this might be random.....but a survey conducted by the United States Department Education places Massachusetts as the "smartest" state in the entire country. California is the second to last worst state as highschoolda postulated.</p>

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<p>Governer Arnold is only making it worse. </p>

<ol>
<li><p>He took out a bunch of money from education budget, promised to put it back. Now he is breaking his promise.</p></li>
<li><p>Raised cost of CC to 26 per unit</p></li>
<li><p>doubled cost of CSU</p></li>
<li><p>Teachers are still extremely underpaid. A starting teacher at LAUSD earns 39K w/ a bachelors. How can u live off that? I think teachers should be able to buy houses and have govn't pay a part of the mortgage.</p></li>
<li><p>Proposed a 700 dollar cut Fafsa- Arnold did.</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>"Most of our K-12 sucks. I think we are second worst after texas. But our UNiv are great. GO figure."</p>

<p>There are 6.3+ million students in California public schools and only a small percentage qualify for the UC and CSU systems.</p>

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<p>Gubernator Ah-nooold is a pain in the a**.</p>

<p>My K-12 school district (well it's not so much mine as it is my younger siblings') had to close an elementary school and a middle school this year (the previous academic year was those two schools' last year). And another elementary school in the district is closing after this academic year.</p>

<p>I don't wish to pretend to be knowledgable about how much money there is in California right now, or good or bad the economy is... I guess I'm just waiting for a leader - be it here in CA or in the White House - who will make education his/her top priority (over defense, at least). It's sad, really.</p>

<p>But higher education in California - stellar. We have CalTech, Stanford, USC, Cal, UCLA, among many other universities... all great schools.</p>

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<p>The California Teacher Association pushed for a proposition which would have bankrupted countless school districts and shut down hundreds of school. They don't have the students interest at heart either. </p>

<p>Raising CC is a good thing, and it should be raised more, California CC is well bellow the national average by thousands of dollars per year per student.</p>

<p>California isn't in the bottom 10 for K-12, you stupid if you think we are second worst after Texas. </p>

<p>California teaches are not underpaid, they have the highest salary even when yout ake cost of living into account the average salary for a California teacher is around $60,000, and in large districts teachers earn on average over $70,000 a year.</p>

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<p>I got into Cal Poly, SDSU, and UCD from out of state.... so there is hope</p>

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<p>You admit to being undisciplined...thus, you have answered your own question. You need to prove to that you deserve a "decent" school.</p>

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<p>VTBoy wrote: The California Teacher Association pushed for a proposition which would have bankrupted countless school districts and shut down hundreds of school. They don't have the students interest at heart either. </p>

<p>What proposition is this exactly?</p>

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<p>The healthcare bill, it would have cost schools billions. The Association of California School Administrators said it would have bankrupted school districts, and caused schools to lay of countless people, and shutdown many schools.</p>

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<p>Arnold did raise the cost per unit but we really shouldn't complain CA has among the lowest cc tuition rates in the country</p>

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<p>VTboy....I did not write or "think" that CA is the second worst right before Texas. I just mentioned to what was conducted by the survey.......</p>

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<p>VTBoy: Do you have any links to back up your statements? I've always heard CA had close to the worst k-12 schools in the nation. In addition, a relative of mine is an elementary school teacher and she claims that new teachers start at around 36,000 and veteran teachers have a max salary in the low 70's. This is in the high-priced Bay Area as well.</p>

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<p>VTBoy, </p>

<p>Comparing standardized test scores which the whole nation takes, California scores second worst to Texas. </p>

<p>There is a huge shortage of teachers mostly b/c of the low pay.</p>

<p>The #s that u posted are ridiculous, if a teacher would make that much, we would never have shortages.</p>

<p>I heard the average salary for a teacher in cali is 43K.</p>

<p>U can look at a sampling of how much each teacher makes in one of the better school districts.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.smmusd.org/web/certsal/tchsal.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.smmusd.org/web/certsal/tchsal.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I went to a public school in cali for my sophomore year of highschool then moved out to MA, california highschools are terrible, even the supposedly good ones. They don't do much in the way of preparing students for the rigorous coursework found in most UCs...cutting more educational costs in primary and secondary schools is really going to start taking its toll on the university system. My publich highschool didn't even prepare me for the private one I joined as a junior in Massachusetts</p>

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<p><a href="http://egusd.k12.ca.us/district/budgetfact.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://egusd.k12.ca.us/district/budgetfact.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Average Classroom Teacher Salary, 2001-02 $67,860 </p>

<p>That is 2001-2002, today the number is over 70K a year. This school district is poor too. I had a teacher in high school, and my school was the poorest school in this poor district, her pay was 6 figs.</p>

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<p>I have no idea where Elk grove unif district is. </p>

<p>But the biggest school district in Cali and in the US is LAUSD, which pays 37 for first year teachers and average salary is 43 K.;</p>