Hey guys thanks a mil~ That helped alot! Now I am only waiting
for my appointment and fly by July to check out the city.
I heard that Pasadena has more latinos and that area is not as
safe as the west LA. Is it true that SMC is easier college to do
well in compared to PCC? easier classes etc. I know about the
large overseas chinese community living there, jackie chan and jet
li lives in Pasadena.
If you guys could choose between PCC and SMC, which would you
choose and why? Considering better transfer prospects (U
michigan,NYU, UCLA, Berk,USC), livable area, safety, education
quality, student life, etc. Would appreciate your answers as I've
never been to California. Cheers!
First of all... You need to stop being a racist .
Then you need to ask yourself......
What do you want to MAJOR in for your UNI DEGREE.
Which STATE you want to reside in.
Are you going for the TOP UNI ? Like Harvard, MIT, CALTECH,
Yale, Princeton ? Or are you just interested in the University in
the state of your choice ?
If you cannot answer these very important question to narrow
down the search, then it will be VERY difficult for others to
advise you.
For CC selection.. as long as you MAKE SURE that CC has an
transfer ARTICULATION AGREEMENT to the UNI of your choice. You have
almost a free rein to the location to reside in.
The standard of transfer is determined BY the UNI . So it does
not matter which CC you go to. They will all transfer AS LONG AS
you scored WELL in ALL YOUR EXAMS and THE UNI ACCEPTED YOUR
ENROLLMENT , so MAKE SURE you choose ONLY the TRANSFERABLE courses
!!
Is there any reason why you chosen PCC or SMC, why not San Diego
or Orange County Colleges ? Why Southern California instead
of Northern California ?And why California instead of Washington
?
If you have specific requirements like staying close to Asian
community.. that will be your limitation to your residence and
choice of CC. Remember USA is a VERY big country. CA itself will
take you more than 10 hours to drive from North to South, there's A
LOT of Asian community in CA.
If you just want huge Asian Community on the West.. then San
Francisco has the biggest number of Asians. Then there's also
Washington and Hawaii .. LOL... too much choices !!!
After you have selected your school nearby your "limitation" ..
then you consider which part of town you want to live in. All
cities are livable.. if it's NOT livable.. nobody would be crazy
enough to live there !
Rule of thumb. The closer you are to the ocean .. the better it
is. The more Inland you go in California.. the cheaper the
housing.. and the higher the lower income density.
The more metropolitan and closer to ocean , the more
expensive in living cost.
Each states has several cities, within it there's good and
not so good neighbourhood, and it can be just a street away from
each other. LOOK AT THE Neighbourhood SCHOOL RATINGS in THAT
neighbourhood. Typically the better the rating.. the nicer the
neighbourhood.. and the higher the rentals.
Here's a simple reference for Education rankings.
US NEWS Education
When you come to USA.. ALWAYS keep an OPEN mind.
you WILL experience CULTURE SHOCK.
And you WILL realise a lot of thing are DIFFERENT to what you
are used to in tiny Singapore.
