<p>After reading the extremely negative "Transfer out of SD" thread, I'm feeling not so happy about this school. </p>
<p>Also, I will admit to knowing absolutely nothing about the school. </p>
<p>So, can anyone say anything good about it? Feel free to include your negative feelings too, though.</p>
<p>A couple instances is enough to change your mind? So if I said I love this school would it balance that out a bit? (Cuz i do and all lol)</p>
<p>heeey, if it isn't TienIsCoolX. How's Sixth College treating you? I'm in Sixth too remember? I think we're both in apartments right?? ( I am lol) I still don't know who you are.</p>
<p>Anyways, UCSD is a good school academically and socially. (Socially maybe?) Some people claim that it's socially dead on weekends because "40%" of students leave campus on. But honestly, it's really what YOU make out of it. </p>
<p>As for girls and guys. Well, I feel bad for the girls because the guys are kind of really ugly. And all the girls are much much much prettier than many people say.</p>
<p>But seriously though, it depends on how you want to spend your time. Given that this is in fact UCSD, it's pretty balanced that you can have fun safely (meaning academically okay).</p>
<p>Other than that. I like this school a lot. Some people don't like the 6 college system, but hey. You don't need a shiz load of half a$$ friends. The one's that you become best friends are probably goin to be close by you anyways. So I guess it makes you get a nicely knit family? but yeah. That's all. Have fun. Come to UCSD, and be proud to be a Triton.</p>
<p>P.S. Sorry we don't have a football team. Just think of it this way. We never have to put up with losing ^___^;;.
((we're undefeated tritons))</p>
<p>Hey man, yeah I second what he said, esp about the "You don't need a shiz load of half a$$ friends. The one's that you become best friends are probably goin to be close by you anyways."</p>
<p>I'm in Muir btw lol, but yeah, I'm having a great time too, good to see you are TheOneZ</p>
<p>there are multiple threads running along these lines -- just head back into the archives for a more complete picture :)</p>
<p>(i love ucsd. i wouldn't have gone anywhere else. and now that i'm in grad school on the east coast and getting frostbite every morning on the way to school, i miss ucsd even more.)</p>
<p>No, UCSD is a horrible place to be. The sunshine is blinding, the proximity to malls and transportation to social venues across San Diego will make your grades fall precipitously, the white sand beach across the highway is ugly, the school's reputation as a life science and engineering powerhouse just means that competition is going to be 10000x harder than other schools, the campus, with its Geisel library, is just so ugly you won't be able to concentrate on having fun or studying, and the food is so bad you'll starve yourself rather than eat. </p>
<p>If that's the kind of advice you've been reading on the forums, thats a sentiment shared by an entire maybe 1% of the school. But the catch is, there's probably 1% of people at Berkeley (make that 50% actually), 1% of people at UCLA, and 1% of people at any school in the country, that feel that way. On forums, those people just tend to be the loudest. The only way to see whether or not you'd be part of that 1% at UCSD is if you visit. For every "negative" listed, someone's bound to find 5 other positives, and so forth. If you have the ability to visit the campus, that's a much better way of making a decision, although I can tell you from visiting UCSD, knowing people that go there, and living in SD that it certainly doesn't warrant all the negatives that some people tend to associate with it.</p>
<p>YAY! Thanks for the responses guys! I definitely deserved those reprimands. I will definitely visit. Thank you.</p>
<p>Dude, there's a plethora of good reasons why UCSD is bomb!!
If you're a science major, this IS the college to go to!!!
It's my dream school!!!!
Can't wait to go there next year!!!</p>
<p>Yup. It's a pretty nice school in my opinion. </p>
<p>I rejected Berkeley EECS for this.
And quite frankly, I don't regret it one bit.</p>
<p>Yay for peppers for using statistical analysis.</p>
<p>peppers, can we just tag that post you wrote and force-feed it to the next fifty people who ask if UCSD sucks? because i'm getting tired of defending my school every other month to people who refuse to look through the archives... :)</p>
<p>hey stefany,</p>
<p>i am a freshman at SD right now in muir and so far i been having a great time. the thing is you HAVE to make an effort to meet people if you want to get involved. There is tons of clubs that alot of people dont know about on campus because they dont look. classes are pretty tough but after a while you get used to it and manage your time better. yes...some of the campus buildings are ugly.....especially muir dorms but you cant beat the sunny days we got! definately consider it!</p>
<p>UCSD is an all-around great school. It's in the top ten public universities in the nation, has an unbeatable location (San Diego, Tijuana, beach within walking distance).. what else could you ask for?</p>
<p>UCSD isn't perfect. But no school is perfect.</p>
<p>one thing that could be asked for is school spirit.</p>
<p>that gets old</p>
<p>School spirit is boring. I get so tired of seeing the words "UCLA" emblazoned on everyone's sweaters, and the same 3 colors (blue gold and gray) on virtually everything >_>;;</p>
<p>yes, but school spirit speaks to students' pride/sense of belonging at the school. you wouldn't say that's important for having a good undergraduate experience? or put it this way: given two schools that are comparable in all but school spirit, which one would you rather be at?</p>
<p>D transferred to UCSD from LMU this year and loves it.......</p>
<p>But realistically schools never will be comparable in everything</p>
<p>well, i was speaking hypothetically. i know no two schools will ever be the same in everything but school pride. but you didn't answer my first question: wouldn't school spirit make your undergrad experience better? cuz i certainly don't see how it's going to make anything worse. (ok, i know that's reworded and a bit different from the original question, but i think it's asked better this way.)</p>
<p>and look, i'm not saying ucsd isn't a good school and all. i'm just trying to be objective and to get an objective answer.</p>
<p>and what's LMU?</p>