Why do people not go to....?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - GENERAL
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<p>I know a few seniors at my school who were accepted to SD, Davis, Irvine, etc… Instead of going to these schools, they are choosing to go to a Community College. Why? I know they want to transfer to Cal or UCLA later on, but cant you just do that from Davis or something? Isn’t it better that way? I understand the money part, but putting money aside, is it not better to go to a ‘UC’?</p>

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<p>It is much easier to transfer from a community college into the UC of your choice. It is reportedly very difficult to do a UC to UC transfer.</p>

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<p>UC to UC transfer is not that hard.</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-general/689081-one-biggest-myths-cc-uc-uc-transfers-have-no-chance.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-general/689081-one-biggest-myths-cc-uc-uc-transfers-have-no-chance.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>But they also may want to save a lot of money.</p>

<p>Yes, there is a transfer myth about UC to UC, but they will take transfers from CC's first.</p>

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<p>1)Saves money
2)They must really want to go there badly
3) Or they could be lying to you and really got rejected from the other UC's</p>

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<p>^ Yeah I believe all three of those. </p>

<p>I just found it shocking that they would turn down a good school's. These kids had like 2100 SAT's and 3.8 GPA's. </p>

<p>Do people go UC to UC? Or UC to a better college (non UC).</p>

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<p>It may look more appealing for grad schools etc to get a higher level education your first and second years instead of just spending your last 2 years at a UC. </p>

<p>Just makes more sense...</p>

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<p>um yes people transfer from UC to UC but I doubt people transfer to non UC schools like Harvard and Stanford because of these transfer policies of these schools.</p>