UC Berkeley vs. Full Ride to CSULB

rxnnjcbs
Fri, 18 Apr 2014 02:30:57 +0000

I’m leaning towards Berkeley but the benefits of the full ride at CSULB are pretty great: tuition and dorms are free, priority registration, $200 towards books each year, automatic acceptance to the honors program, exclusive access to the president’s scholars center, personalized advising, and campus student parking privileges.

That being said, Berkeley is an awesome school, and I’m pretty tired of living in Long Beach. I’m already turning down USC and Carnegie Mellon because they’re just too expensive. I feel like Berkeley has all the benefits of a prestigious school without having to pay a ridiculous amount. I’m still really conflicted though because CSULB is throwing a lot of money at me…

Can anyone tell me about getting your classes at Berkeley? Is it extremely impacted/will I probably take more than 4 years to graduate?