<p>The Facebook group can be found here: <a href=“https://www.facebook.com/groups/655596324488384/”>https://www.facebook.com/groups/655596324488384/</a></p>
<p>somewhat of a follow up to my rant. Not saying that college is not important, but you young people need to hear what people in the “real world” has to say about what school you come from. I wish you all the best of luck and hope you will all become a great asset to wherever you may work one day. </p>
<p>This article talks about an MBA, but I feel it applies to BS/BA as well
<a href=“9 Lessons You Won't Learn in Business School | Entrepreneur”>9 Lessons You Won't Learn in Business School | Entrepreneur;
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I strongly agree with the article. Thanks for posting! :)</p>
<p>When I was entering college, we thought of “UCR” as the joke school. When you’re a transfer student, the range of UC’s that you consider “joke” institutions kind of becomes wider (if you’re a good student). Most community college students who are good students get into UC Berkeley, UCLA, or UCSD. I don’t know anyone else that went to anything lower in the UC system (not any friends I made in community college anyway). It’s not hard to get into mid-tier UC’s from community college. It is still however hard to pay for them. If they didn’t like/couldn’t pay for UC, most people went to Cal Poly SLO or Pomona if they were STEM. You get a comparable education from either Cal Poly.</p>
<p>I’m about to graduate from Cal Poly Pomona and it does matter where you graduate from somewhat for those first jobs. In certain jobs, it absolutely matters. For instance, investment banking. Other than that, as long as you come from a good quality school, you’ll be alright. Someone graduating from CSUN won’t have as many opportunities.</p>
<p>I’m not accepted yet, but I do think I have a good chance of getting into the graduate program at UC Riverside. I’m gathering my recommendation letters and finishing the application fairly soon. I will probably attend there if I get in (unless I get into UCLA), but it truly depends. I’d say if you’re taking out huge loans for undergrad to get a UC Riverside education, you can get just as good of an education if not better at a high-rated CSU. If you have plans for graduate school, it’s a little different. I would probably be more willing to pay more for a UC for graduate school than a CSU since truly UC’s are research focused. But CSU is fine if you want to get a good to great job and start working right after college. You can do research at CSU’s still, but the average UC’s endowment is usually larger. </p>
<p>poli sci major! hoping to one year transfer tho.</p>
<p>I will be happily attending UCR in the fall as a sociology major and hope to minor in political science. I have filled out my housing contract and look forward to living in Lothian. My brother goes there and will be graduating this year. UCR is a beautiful campus and a friendly environment. College is definitely what you make it. Be proud to be class of 2018! </p>
<p>I got rejected from all of the UCs I applied to (UCLA and UCI) except for UCR. I had like a 5% chance of getting into LA and was really hoping for Irvine. None of the CSUs I got in really appealed to me (csulb, cal pol Pomona, and Channel Islands) so I am going to UCR next year. I am pretty disappointed that I didn’t get into UCI, but I am still very lucky to get into a UC school. Most look down on riverside, but it just opened a medical school and I think in a few years it might be up there as a mid-tier school like UCSB UCI UCD (hopefully). I recently visited and it reminded me of a miniature berkley. It was a cute campus. I just really disliked the surrounding city (unusually sparse and boring?) definitely not a college town like UCD or UCB. I hate the hot
weather too (but I’m from Santa Clarita so I’m used to 100+ summer temp). People should take time to visit the school (beautiful surrounding mountains) and appreciate it. Please remember that this school is still ranked higher than most high-end csu’s. I’m majoring in chem and it’s chem program is still ranked higher than SDSU (a very top cal state). The only reason people belittle riverside is because there are 8 other schools you can compare it to (if that makes sense). Like “oh you’re going to UCR? Lemme guess, you didn’t get into irvine or LA?”) if UCR was it’s own individual school, apart from a system of others, it would definitely be regarded more highly. I hope that made sense.</p>