# I'm about to Do It...I'm so scared

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-do-it-im-so-scared/42787>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 26, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-do-it-im-so-scared/42787 "2000-11-26T20:22:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mauve\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@Mauve\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauve_Dog)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-do-it-im-so-scared/42787/21 "2000-11-27T22:04:17Z")

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> \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \*  
> \*\*I want to go to Irvine, Riverside, or Santa Barbara, and hey, who DOESN’T want to go to Berkeley?  
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> Well, I doubt Berkeley will take me, so I’m not worried about that. Davis is too close to home (Can’t handle my mother anymore). So it’s basically between Irvine and Santa Barbara. \*\*

Just as an aside (and, hopefully something else to take your mind off of worrying about which one you get into), where you get your undergrad education is largely irrelevant. If you plan on getting a Masters or Doctorate, personally I’d save the ‘big names’ (Davis and Berkeley, for example) until then. A Ph.D. from UCB with a B.A. from CSU Hayward will mean a lot more to employers than the other way around…  
Berkeley also has the annoying policy of not accepting their undergrads into their graduate programs (this is true with many of their scientific majors, anyway; I don’t know if it holds true for majors in the Humanities or Arts, etc.).

Of course, if you _don’t_ plan to continue, go for the name 🙂

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**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-do-it-im-so-scared/42787/22 "2000-11-28T00:16:33Z")

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Well Mauve, I actually plan to go to Law School. I do know that Santa Barbara has a very good “pre-law” program, but Irvine is a good Liberal Arts school. I plan on majoring in English.  
From what I understand, Berkeley accepts 50% based on academic performance, and 50% based on Personal statement. Davis just uses an index (GPA plus test scores multiplied by some number).  
My GPA is not that great (weighted it’s 3.89) and my SAT scores were not very high, (1220), that’s why I’m worried.

Thank you everybody for your encouragement. I feel lots better today, though I’m still nervous.

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