If you are a non-resident in California, then your transfer funding is probably limited because funding is largely acquired via California taxpayers. There isn’t much.
Wow, insulting the State’s residents is not a good way to begin a school career. It’s uncool of you and shows that you are really naive and have no idea about the State’s students/residents preparation for the UC’s.
See if you can follow this rational line of thinking:
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There are a finite number of seats at the UC’s.
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Berkeley has to reject thousands of students who qualify per SAT scores and perfect GPAs because there just isn’t the room for all the hundreds of thousands of students who want to attend from all over the world.
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Berkeley has waitlists and often, they may not take anyone off of the waitlist. So, you end up with a bunch of students who decide “all or none” and attend a local CC to try to get into Berkeley for their last 2 years.
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Additionally, the cost of living in California is very expensive and many middle class students’ families cannot afford to pay housing or BAY AREA rents near Berkeley, so their students attend CC for two years and then save money by attending Berkeley for the last two years. (It’s now about $3500 per month x 12 months.)
Our son attended Caltech. During the summer, he took courses at the local community college (California). He met kids from Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley, Pomona, Harvey Mudd, etc. who were on break but wanted to get ahead of the general education requirements at their respective schools.
Your comment is immature. Attending Berkeley, with those narrow-minded thoughts will make you a very lonely person since you seem to believe that you will be better than everyone else there. Husband (Stanford) hires EECS students from Berkeley. He’ll sniff out the “holier than thou” attitude. They play “nice” in the real working world in California.