USC v. UC Berkley spring admission

ucbalumnus
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:59:26 +0000

From Irvine, you can easily visit USC’s neighborhood if you are concerned. There are also crime map web sites you can check.

You do not necessarily have to major in biology to take the pre-med courses. But pre-meds do want to keep costs down, since medical school is expensive. Biology or biochemistry majors also want to keep costs down, because job and career prospects at the bachelor’s degree level are not so good for these majors.

One semester of community college in the fall followed by seven semesters of Berkeley starting in the spring may save a bit of money. Use [Welcome to ASSIST](http://www.assist.org) to check course equivalency (if you want to take a sequenced course like chemistry or math at community college, do so at a semester system community college so that the course “boundaries” line up with those at Berkeley).