Thread: So, about college for you older guys...

Originally Posted by Cherry Flavored Pez

The reason I aim for Berkeley is because it's a good place to start a career in pharmaceutics. Engineering is my second choice.

Look CFP, let me be blunt, since you may not have gotten the message yet, and if you want to do well from this point forward you need a realistic perspective on your situation, and your attitude is one of over-weening hubris:

Of course Berkley is a good school to start a career in many, many fields. On the other hand, being a professional basketball player is a good way to make money, as is being a movie star.


With near certainty, you will NOT get into Berkley, and if you really wanted to attend Berkley you should have started 3 years ago when you were a freshman in High School with good grades. I mean, if you really want to go to Berkley, then by all means make a serious effort, but don't set your heart on it. Also, make sure you look for and apply to strong alternate schools so that you don't screw yourself over in the end by not being realistic.

Over the last decade, admissions to every university have become more and more competitive, and at this point students that are by far stronger than you are the norm for even less regarded state schools like UMCP. Things are even worse at the top tier schools such as Berkley: their admissions are so swamped with exceptional students that they are looking for any reason to cull students from the selection process, and you give them such reasons in spades.

One last thing: do you think that people with pharmaceutical or engineering degrees from SDSU don't ever get careers? Of course they do.

Would it be possible to transfer from a state school like SDSU to Berk after only 1 year?

I have no idea, but again I wouldn't count on it.

Originally Posted by Cherry Flavored Pez

. The reason I'm doing so poorly is because for the life of me, I just can't do homework or projects. Or won't rather. This will change

What are you doing to ensure that it will change? Are you getting outside help to help you improve you study skills? Are you reading books about how to improve your habits? etc.

This is another reason why I find your idea of getting into Berkley so shocking. You have fundamental problems with simply doing the work assigned to you in classes and are failing classes because of that. How can you not understand that Berkley is not the school for people like this? And what's more you will be miserable surrounded by super over-achievers. I mean, I probably would be as well. It's bad enough in podunk little UMCP.