It is very easy to transfer between American universities. US President Barack Obama also transferred from the School of Humanities to Columbia University for undergraduate study, and then entered Harvard Law School. The diversity and flexibility of transfer between American universities enable different students to find their own different learning paths and obtain suitable educational opportunities.

American universities are as diverse as American society, and different schools have different orientations and are suitable for different students. And students can transfer between different schools. This seems to be an unimaginable world in China, but it can be easily realized in the United States.

In China, it is almost impossible for junior college students to change majors even if they transfer to other universities for undergraduate studies. Under the baton of the current college entrance examination, what you pass is what you pass for life. The college entrance examination is like a big sieve. Putting people with different grades in isolated containers and labeling them as society makes students unable to turn over and makes all students look like the same mold, making it difficult to highlight their own characteristics. The transfer between American universities also provides many domestic students with opportunities to study in the United States.

But in the United States, there are nearly 4,000 universities, each with its own orientation. There are community universities that provide vocational education and basic education for freshmen and sophomores, liberal arts colleges that focus on undergraduate elite education, teaching universities that aim at career development, and research universities.

For the universities in California, the universities in the university system of California are all research universities, such as UC, Berkeley, UCLA and so on. The 23 universities in California State University system are all teaching-oriented universities, such as San Francisco State University and San Jose State University.

There is a saying in California: if you study well and have money at home, go to Stanford (a famous private school); If you are good at reading but your family is not rich, go to the University of California, Berkeley (a famous public school); If you study in general but your family is rich, go to Southern California (private TOP 30); Generally, if the family is not rich, they will go to California State (public teaching university).