Which school should I transfer to if I get rejected from Haas at UCB?

Transfer Students
1

Hello everyone,

I’m a business administration major (focusing in finance upon transferring) who is applying to UCB, UCLA, UCI, UCR, CSU Long Beach, Cal Poly Slo, and USC. Haas is my dream school and although i do have pretty competitive stats, lets face it, there are no guarantees (if you wanna check out my stats head over to my chance me thread for haas!) So if I did get rejected from Haas, which school should i attend assuming I get accepted everywhere else. It’d be great if you guys can make a list from 1-6 with 1 being the “GO THERE NOW!” and the 6 being “meh”

So for example:

  1. UCR
  2. UCLA
  3. UCI
  4. CSU LB
  5. USC
  6. Cal Poly Slo

Thanksss!!

2

I would wait until you have acceptances in hand. Which other school do you prefer? USC, UCI and SLO would be my other top choices.

3

I agree with @Gumbymom, USC, UCI, and SLO are the next best schools.

Particularly, USC’s business school is quite great. I bet if you do a bit more research you’ll like the school more.

4

They don’t admit into Haas directly. You will have to apply to Haas in your sophomore year at UCB.

5

All the schools you list are fine but, very selective and I don’t know your stats so. it is a pointless exercise. I mean, Stanford and Harvard are pretty good too. What if you don’t get into any of them?

BTW - SDSU is a glaring omission from your list - and on-par with UCR for selectivity.

Post your stats for a more focused response.

6

@NCalRent

I’m missing 2 classes for SDSU unfortunately!

Here are my stats:

Major: Business Administration
GPA: 4.0. Honors List
Major GPA: 4.0
IGETC: Will be done spring 2018
7 Course Breadth: Will be done Spring 2018
Pre-reqs: Only macroeconomics left which will be done this coming semester (Fall 2017).
Fluent in 3 languages
ECs: Investment Club member, AGS (honors society) member, Tutor for Calculus 2 and below, led math jam workshops for a whole week( A program that helps students do better on their placement tests to jump or prepare for a certain math class), interned at a financial services company during tax season while taking 17 units, Working on volunteer hours (should have 50+ by the time I apply), was amongst the 100/700 total applicants that got selected for the UC Berkeley summer experience program 2017. Candidate for Valedictorian for Sp18 commencement, SPMP

7

Given your interest in business major, I would look at Santa Clara University and University of San Diego. Both do well when it comes to job placement.

8

As someone who got into Haas Fall 2016, my #2 was Cal Poly SLO. I didn’t apply to USC or UCLA and I wasn’t interested in econ. Though the other UC’s I applied to were econ (I didn’t apply to UCLA … or USC). I was only interested in business, but not in the other UC’s that offered business.

Cal Poly is a great school and a great program and it made the most sense for me as my #2.

9

@briank82 what was the supplemental application for Cal Poly Slo like? Similar to Haas?

10

Can’t remember. I don’t even recall there being one. Was over a year and a half ago. Sorry.