{"id":91,"date":"2015-02-12T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:11:12","slug":"choosing-a-university","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/transfer-center-links\/choosing-a-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding on which university to transfer to can be overw<span class=\"style3\">helming, but choosing the &#8220;right fit for you&#8221; can make the difference in both your overall experience and your overall success at the four-year campus.\u00a0 It&#8217;s important to consider many elements such as size, location, majors offered, culture, and faculty.\u00a0 The link to the handout below will provide you with a step-by-step process for considering all the criteria which are important to you, and will also provide you with resources for finding schools to match your priorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steps for<span class=\"style3\"> choosing a university include the following:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Decide what is important to you when it comes to selecting a university<\/li>\n<li>Fill out your top criteria for the ideal campus<\/li>\n<li>Rank the criteria that are most important to you<\/li>\n<li>Research individual universities that meet your criteria<\/li>\n<li>List the universities that meet your criteria<\/li>\n<li>List the top three choices and tour each one<\/li>\n<li>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/126\/2015\/02\/Choose_Your_Transfer_University_072009.pdf\">Choosing a Transfer University Handout<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/126\/2015\/02\/Decisions.Decisions.pdf\">Decisions-Decisions: Choosing between the CSU &amp; UC systems<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding on which university to transfer to can be overwhelming, but choosing the &#8220;right fit for you&#8221; can make the difference in both your overall experience and your overall success&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/transfer-center-links\/choosing-a-university\/\">Continue Reading<span> Choosing a University<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"parent":55,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45686,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/45686"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/transfercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}