Transfering to U.C. From CSU or JC Easyer?

Question

well i got accpeted C.S.U. .... but i dont know if i m going to be accepted to UC... so should i go to J.C. than transfer to U.C. or go to C.S.U. than transfer to U.C. and why

Answer 1

Michael B went crazy on this one.

I'll tell you easily that your best way is JC because you will spend a lot of less money. Your opportunities of transfering are the same though. If you have over a 3.0, you will have assured admission into UC Davis, Irvine, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Riverside and Merced. If you have a 3.3 honors you'll have assured admission into UC Los Angeles and UC San Diego, and a 3.6+ will definitely get you into UC Berkeley. Again, it is just a matter of how much money you want to spend. The whole University to University transfer being hard is nothing more than a myth.

Answer 2

I know this isn't a popular point of view, as it appears that the overall stigam has reached all the way down into the high schools. But, where you go should be determined by what you want to do with your life. UC's have a wholly undeserved reputation for being better schools.

On the whole, UC's are academic institutions aimed at producing academics pursuing higher and higher degrees - for those that go into research, teaching (professors), and anything else philosophical or anything else almost purely academic.

CSU's are aimed more at producing academics that can integrate more easily into workforce. As the head of a Civil Engineering Consulting firm, the engineers we get from the CSU system virtually plug-in to our business; sure they need to be trained, but we spend less time on the common sense stuff, like reading drawings and dealing with clients. Those students we do see from the UC (few and far between), seem to have trouble putting together simple reports based on current standards - if left to put together reports based on what they learned in school, they do fine.

Junior College is a good option in California, mostly depending on what you want to do. I went to JC, and my first year at a 4-year engineering school (really my 3rd year) was ridiculously easy - the JC almost prepared me too well. In California, a JC is just a less expensive alternative these days.

In short to answer your question, if you desire to go to the UC, for whatever reason, it might be better from a JC. There is just a different philosphy in the CSU system. Once you go to a CSU, a UC is a different bird. I did have friends that graduated from CSU and went on to get advanced degrees from the UC system - but those people are few and far between.

Just before I got into this field, I was briefly interviewed for a position where I was told "a degree tells us you know how to learn; we will teach you how everything really works". And they were right. For now, college is just a means to an end - a year out of college, no one will likely care which school you went to, nor what your grades were.

Good luck.

Answer 3

JC.

Much easier to transfer from a JC than from another 4 yr college. However, most people attending JC's never make the transfer. Hard to stay disciplined that whole time. It's definitely a risk, particularly to those who don't have great study habits.

Answer 4

Which ever one has the better English department might be the
EASYER choice.

Please don't tell me that these are colleges you are referring to.