<p>whaaat mojo, you thought bart was ghetto? it’s really, really safe. and actually when friends of mine came here from japan they kept saying the bart was so clean!</p>
<p>Yikes! If you guys think the area around Berkeley is ghetto, you should see where I live right now. And I’m in the good part of the valley. Regardless of the school, part of the educational process is simply getting out more.</p>
<p>i didnt thnk the berkeley area was ghetto, oakland and all the other stops the bart made before you get to berkeley is!</p>
<p>oh, yeah, some parts of oakland are ghetto (some are upscale)… but… what city doesn’t have an industrial area as well as a nice area? if you take the bart on any of the other lines (like to rockridge, or to sf) the areas are really nice. there’s a good chance you’ll never go to oakland anyway as there isn’t a need unless you want to explore the scene there (and some parts of it are really nice).</p>
<p>bump!..</p>
<p>mjojo, yeah barts not ghetto. the view of outside from inside the bart can be ghetto, but those guys tag those walls on purpose so it gets seen. theres always going to be ghetto and nice parts in a city. i’ve lived and grew up in oakland for about 13 years. i never seen one criminal activity (like a car jacking, robbery, or shooting). it depends on where you live, and yeah, i lived on the nice side of town. bart’s not bad as you made it seem. it sure beats the hell outta boston and ny subway stations though. if you compare those, bart is waaay cleaner! plus, since you’re a guy, you shouldnt even worry that much…</p>
<p>msuvansi, you have till AFTER the fall you apply to raise your gpa by 3.8 cause you have to update your UC application in early january with your fall grades and the courses you plan on taking. good luck!</p>
<p>and having ridden both bart and the LA metro many times… i can say that the latter is way, way, WAY more shady and dangerous. once i was on the metro and there were a bunch of crazy ass fight club rejects holed up in a corner playing with switchblades. FTW?</p>
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Lived there, true dat!</p>
<p>I dont know! it just seemed dangerous! and it freaked me out when the bart stopped inside the tunnel! i thought it was going to be final destination 3 or something!! lol…</p>
<p>mojo, I heard at Berkeley you gotta beat someones @$$ the first day, or become someones b!tch. That’s the key…</p>
<p>After visiting Cal yesterday, I made the decision to go to Cal in the next Fall. I don’t find the Cal’s welcome day much helpful, but it’s time for me to make up my mind. I met a Cal grad who is a math major like me, and he really gave me some insights about my major at Cal. I need not to worry about the grade I’m going to get over there. I’ll just try my best, and a “C” will just be fine if I already gave my best shot.</p>
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That’s what my dad told me about his matriculation to the California Institute for Men, Chino campus. :P</p>
<p>Will my acceptance to UCLA be recinded if I get a 3.0 my last semester at CCC??</p>
<p>if your conditions of admission say 3.2, then yes</p>
<p>mojo if berkeley scares you then i’d say you SHOULD go there just so you can get over those kind of fears… it’ll build character or something.</p>
<p>^^ Condition of admissions say no such thing as, “keep your GPA within 3.2” at least in mine it didnt say that. So how can you tell what GPA they want? in mine it says to “maintain your GPA”. Is everyone’s diff?</p>
<p>haha, thats what i was thinking peep! I am still in the thinking process…im going to be visiting ucla on saturday, and then in a week or so i will try to make a decision.</p>
<p>If there’s anyone reading this who wants to transfer to Cal or UCLA next year, here’s some advice. Take one easy class that you know you can get an A in during your last CC semester. I’m taking 2 hard-ass classes, and I am super stressed right now trying to maintain that 3.0 GPA that my conditions of admission mandates. I’ve been doing physics problems for the last 6 hours and I think I’m going insane</p>
<p>^Guys! where the h@ll it says 3.0 GPA? I don’t see it!!! All I see is in my contract, “mantain your GPA” thats it.</p>
<p>whuuuuuzzzzuuuuuppp up everybody…just got back from a long weekend in the bay…
Rogue…sorry I didn’t see your post until tonight…yeah I was there…you couldn’t miss me…I was the blonde in the white blouse,vest and Cal blue & gold tie…stopped by Joy’s though and got a bunch of Cal gear…sorry had a little too mush Bacardi tonight…</p>
<p>OlieOlie…that’s a trip…I’ also from Washington…actually I was raised in Tacoma…I moved to CA several years ago…I love the campus at UW and I miss the Huskey games.</p>
<p>Hope you all had fun at the reception…allot of missing elements though…CalSo is much better because you pre-register for classes</p>
<p>As far as Bart…I always park in El Cerrito and ride into Berkeley from the other side as long as you don’t hang around Richmond or Oakland your fine.</p>