Community College to UC Berkeley

StephenD
Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:54:54 +0000

Hi everyone!

This is my first post on College Confidential! It is nice to meet all of you and I’m looking forward to the conversations ahead!

I am in the graduating class of 2014 and want to plan my road to UC Berkeley. I live in California and my plan is to go to a community college first and then transfer to Berkeley. The dilemma though is that my city only has 1 community college and with a population of 250k, classes are impacted. The complaint current students there have is that they aren’t able to enroll in classes they want and it takes them longer to earn the 60 transferrable credits.

I want to avoid either case. I am currently in search of a different community college out of city. I am looking for an area where the demographics, standard of living, recreation, and opportunities are most suited for a college student. So I would like your advice on 2 things: 1, I would like to know in your opinion if this is feasible if the financial support I will recieve from my parents are minimal and I must generate the income to pay for bills, personal expense, tuition, etc. on grants, financial aid, and as a working student; and 2, what community colleges, cities, and places in mind do you have that I can start looking in to.

I understand that moving to a community college that is not near my home will be more costly, but the probable consequences of taking my chances at my local one and not recieving the classes I need are much higher. Please let me know what you think!

Thanks for taking your time!

Stephen