I am currently attending a California community college and I can get a transfer admission guarantee (TAG) for UC Davis, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. I will be eligable to transfer and start at one of these universities for the fall of 09 quarter. I live very far away from all three of these UC's. My dilemma is this. I could transfer to one of these 3 UC's and be broke for the remainder of my undergraduate education while acquiring debt from student loans. Or I could stay here and live with my parents thereby saving money, and transfer to a Cal State 10 minutes from my house and not be broke. What would you do in my situation?
depends on how smart you are. if you are the type of student who is nowhere near the avg matriculated MD student, u might want to keep your loans low in case you don't make it into a MD school. but if you are not, transfer, it is a better school with more opportunity for research and what not.
So if I am a strong student, I shouldn't really concern myself with the student loans and attend one of the UC's?
If I were you, I'd go to the Cal state. Save the money. There is no reason to take out loans for undergrad if you're planning on going to professional school, where you will need to take out massive amounts of loans.
go to the closest school to you id say your 3 options of UCs wont be worth the loans (but then again id say pick the cheapest option even if you were debating between other UCs) as long as you do really well at whichever school you go to (in terms of grades and EC's) no one will really care about your undergrad much (im assuming that's your concern).
UC is very cheap isnt it??my school cost over 40K a year for typical student. so you are lucky. good luck!
Charming. I'll have you know that while I don't know much about UCI, UCD and UCSD both have wonderful (albeit relatively very different) undergrad programs. I did the guaranteed admission thing to UCD and I couldn't be happier with my choice. They offer totally reasonable financial aid... maybe that will help offset the costs? It's only two years, remember. Around what...18K for 2 years? I don't know. It's a personal thing, but I love UCD and am SOO glad I didn't chose the closer, cheaper Cal State school(s). There are an abundance of premed resources at an undergrad with a medical school, so you can't go wrong with either three schools.
