<p>I wish to major in Economics and eventually pursue a career in Investment Banking or Private Equity after attending Business School.</p>
<p>I have been accepted into the following:</p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Barbara (Honors)
UC San Diego (Muir College)
UC Irvine (Regents Scholarship+Campuswide Honors Program)
UC Berkeley (Spring Semester)</p>
<p>Please give me any insight, thanks!</p>
<p>UC Berkeley is the only one of these schools that has a national reputation. The rest of the UC’s (aside from UCLA) have strong reputations in California, but aren’t terribly known across the rest of the country. Only you can judge to what extent this is important – perhaps you want to stay in California.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley, hands down. I currently attend UC Santa Cruz, and the program is terribly lacking compared to the one offered at Berkeley. However, correct me if I’m wrong, you need to reapply to the Haas School of Business at Berkeley during your sophomore year.</p>
<p>investment banking or private equity after MBA, or do you mean you seek to pursue those after your undergrad education. </p>
<p>if you expect to get there my doing an mba after your undergrad at a uc, go for the cheapest out of ucsd, ucsb, uci, and ucb. </p>
<p>if you expect to get there directly out of undergrad, then go for UC berkeley, wait until the spring, take a couple of classes at a community college for the fall so that when you get to berkeley you would have already fulfilled requisites, that would boost your gpa up.</p>
<p>I’d definitely go to Berkeley. Spring admit is not big deal. Unless Irvine is way cheaper and money is tight, then you could opt for Irvine. But Berkeley if you can.</p>