UMichigan vs. UC-Berkeley?

strugglinguser
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:26:20 +0000

I will either attend one of these two schools, but I really am not sure which. Money isn’t that big of a factor, but Berkeley did give me a little more. I applied to Letters & Science at both, but I want to transfer into engineering (I was unsure when I applied).

UMich
Pros/Cons: Closer to home, easier to transfer into engineering, amazing sports scene, party scene is a little to Greek for me, lesser known that UCB, extremely cold

UCB
Pros/Cons: harder to transfer into engineering, lesser sports scene, great reputation, great weather, San-Francisco area

I am mostly worried that if I went to Berkeley, I would not be able to transfer into engineering (the major I want to do is also impacted) or that the workload would be simply unreasonably difficult.

Thoughts?

(P.S. I am planning to visit both)