Need responses on help on making college decision ASAP!

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Originally Posted by serialk11r

Then there's the people from here who don't have good grades (mind you this is still talking about above average), and quite a lot of people can't even find jobs. It makes me shudder to think of what would happen if you were to drop yet another tier down in terms of school...If you're motivated, which you seem to be, then you don't want the brand name of the school to bottleneck you, and that's extremely likely to happen at the UCI/UCD level. Unfortunate, because some people from those schools are really smart, but the world is messed up like that.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
But yeah, I know that. Not sure if any of you have read Ayn Rand's work (or completely disagree with her ideas), but I think if more people read The Fountainhead, there'd be less of "name recognition" and a more holistic review/approach.

Originally Posted by Racecomp Engineering

Also...don't panic. Don't put too much pressure on yourself to follow some path you or your parents laid out for yourself when you were 17 (or younger). Your goals might change and that's OKAY. Make sure you have a good time and enjoy the full experience.

- Andy

Thanks for the advice.
I liked all of my science classes in high school, especially chemistry. Chemistry was just something that I understood, even though 90% percent of my class didnt. I didnt like math that much, which may present a problem for me if I go through with engineering and taking pre-req math classes in general, but I know if I put in the work, everything will turn out fine, no matter what I do, engineering or not. I'll at least have the chemistry knowledge to start cookin' some meth.

Originally Posted by calmtigers

California job market is insane but also booming in terms of petroleum industry. Hope that helps!

Yeah, hopefully whatever internships/networks I score in NY are "translatable" into California. I absolutely love that place. San Francisco is da bomb diggity.

Originally Posted by blackhawkdown

After reading the OP post. I am getting a sense that this is what he is scared of. I also get a sense that he already knows what he wants to do and what school he wants to go to. So I will just leave it at that with this picture. I think we are wasting our energy typing in this thread.

Maybe I'm interpreting what you're saying wrong, but you're being a bit condescending as well in your post, but I'll ignore that.
You're kinda right. I really wanted to go to California, but my parents and I would have to pay off over $160k in loans. I didn't want to put my parents through that, considering my sister only graduated last year at UConn.