UCSD vs Community College

ericbadmon
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 11:46:16 +0000

Are you pre-med? I ask cuz if you are it doesn’t matter how prestigious your college is for med schools. At least certainly when you’re comparing the difference in prestige between UCSD and UCLA.
I’d go to UCSD, but only if you’re contempt with staying and graduating there. Cuz if you absolutely want to transfer and you feel like you’re gonna have tough times sleeping at night without that UCLA/Cal degree, CC is your best shot.
It’s much harder to transfer from UCSD because:

1. It’s MUCH harder to have a 3.8+ GPA at UCSD than it is at CC. But when colleges look at the apps in the transfer process they’re pretty much weighted the same

2. CCC students get priority

3. You’re already at an elite institution so they see little reason to have you go there. From talking to people who transferred from UCSD to LA, they have said that they had to highlight a reason why they want to leave UCSD, basically articulate on something that they would find at the target college that they wouldn’t find at UCSD
Hope this helps but honestly I, along with many others, would just go to UCSD in your situation. It is a very good school and SD is a beautiful place