<p>I can’t answer about that major since I have no personal experience, but I can say something about the commute.</p>
<p>Don’t do it. Seriously. Find a way to live on the Santa Cruz side of 17 unless you have zero choice. If you live in San Jose, you must know just how bad 17 can get. The traffic is ridiculous and accidents happen more often than they should. I have had it take an extra hour (so nearly two hours) to get over 17 once because of an accident that slowed traffic down (but was not one of the ones that shut it down completely, thankfully, like I saw a few weeks ago).</p>
<p>You will spend too many hours of your day sitting in traffic on 17 unless you are fortunate enough to consistently obtain a schedule that allows you to travel at typically low traffic times, but even then there can still be traffic when the idiots decide to ignore the posted speed limit and cause accidents.</p>
<p>In fact, if you can swing it, live on campus. Village is super cheap for transfers since it does not require a meal plan (or didn’t last I checked). Campus is up on a hill and isolated from the city itself.</p>