<p>You just have to keep your grades above a 3.0. I actually failed a class second semester of senior year. I’m talking an “F”.</p>
<p>Weighted or unweighted?</p>
<p>weighted 10char</p>
<p>Hey! im back! midterms and papers was a killer. haha
Thank you to all who came to the Discover Days, and to today’s Highlander Day! It was truly great seeing everyone and hearing all of your questions.</p>
<p>re: iamjustin
UCR offers apartment housing for 2nd years and above. So if you want to live at Bannockburn and Stonehaven, you cant be a 1st year. The some parts of the plaza might offer private housing, but I know for sure stoneheaven and and the rest that are mentioned on the housing brochure are via UCR Housing and abide by the 2nd year and above rule.
The Resident Halls (dorms) are recommended for first years because it helps you network and meet new people, and the whole first-year college experience really isn’t complete without the dorms.</p>
<p>Great! glad you can help us!
I’m going to attend UCR and already submitted the SIR.
How many units is required for freshman to take? What is the best residence hall?
How do I find out my NetID and password for the housing contract?
Thank you so much!
PM with your answers.</p>
<p>I have some questions for MehediMD. 
I went to Highlander Day today!! It was a really great experience! Fun!
You are a Chemistry major right? Well, I’m going to major in Biology. What are some core science classes that I must take as a Freshman? Will I have to take Organic Chemistry and General Chemistry? What is the difference? Also, are Freshman allow to get into labs their first year at UCR? I heard that you have to do a lot of practicing with the lab equipments before the professor will let you actually do the lab. Is that true?
Thanks!</p>
<p>Hey Mehedi
i believe you were my tour guy on the Discovery Day on the 18th. It was some awesome tour. Only downside of the discovery day was that it was blazing hot haha.</p>
<p>Hi Mehedi!
Can you tell me about Special Interest Housing?
Would you recommend it? What are the pros and cons of doing this?
I want to know before i submit my housing contract :X
Can you also tell me the difficulty of the BREATH classes? I’m sure they’re all different but generally comparing to the AP classes in highschool.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Oh one more thing!
Also it says </p>
<p>“A CNAS Scholars Learning Community is located at each Residence Hall building and all rooms are same gender.” </p>
<p>Does that mean EVERY room in the hall are the same gender? Or are the genders of each room just same gender but you have rooms with both male and female?</p>
<p>Thanks again :]</p>
<p>I can’t answer anyone’s housing questions because I don’t live on campus, sorry! Anyone here commuting?</p>
<p>twilight_girl09 -
To be considered a full-time student and qualify for financial aid, you must enroll in at least 12 units each quarter. Some freshman take 3 classes/12 units during their first quarter so they won’t be overloaded with work and it’ll give them a good chance to set their GPA (it’s more difficult to raise a low GPA). It’s suggested that you take 15-16 units after that each quarter so you can finish in four years. But it depends on how you want to pace yourself; some people go into their fifth and sixth years.</p>
<p>Jaesango -
I responded to your other post (about class difficulty at UCR) in more detail, but it depends on your strengths (writing, reading, making long arguments vs. numbers, problem-solving, memorization; amongst others) and which professor you get.</p>
<p>How does honors classes differ from a regular class? What are some advantages of taking honors courses?</p>
<p>tehlunatic -
Honors classes are reserved for those in the honors program. If you enroll in a lecture-discussion honors course, the discussion will be taught by the professor rather than a teaching assistant.</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard from my friends in the honors program, the classes aren’t that much harder. They just expect you to be serious about your work (whatever that may entail). But my friends in the honors program are really motivated and were in high school honors, so I guess what matters is drive and having higher academic expectations of yourself. They’re doing pretty well. If you’d like, I could ask more their more detailed opinions.</p>
<p>The advantages that I like of the Honors Program are:
- Priority registration for classes. Enough said.
- More opportunities to actually know your professors. It’s hard to make yourself known to professors because it’s a large school, but not entirely impossible. It takes more effort on your part to actually talk to the professor often. I’ve found that it’s easier to do this with smaller classes. I think the honors program makes that easier because the classes are often quite smaller to begin with.</p>
<p>This is all about the University(-wide) Honors Program, which is split into Lower (First-Year and Sophomore) and Upper Divisions. I’m not sure how the Upper Division program is like. Individual departments may have honors programs. A friend of mine isn’t in UHP, but is in the Political Science Department Honors Program and has to write a thesis.</p>
<p>twilight_girl09 - What is the best residence hall? </p>
<p>I would say East Lothian is the best Residence hall.
Only East Lothian and Pentland allows you to control your own A/C TEMP.
A&I and West Lothain, the A/C’s are controlled by your RA.</p>
<p>Pentland allows more privacy in general like the restrooms which are very private, but it is also very socially dead. Most people from pentland have to go to other dorms for a more social atmosphere.</p>
<p>Also the dining halls are at the A&I and Lothian dorms. So if you were to live in Pentland, you would have to walk to the other dorms to get food.</p>
<p>So it depends if you are a more private person or if you want to meet new people easier.
I would say if you are more private and keep to yourself and like to be that way, go for Pentland. I you are friendly and want to make friends go for East Lothian, A&I or West Lothian!!</p>
<p>iamjustin - How are the apartments on campus?
I am looking into Bannockburn Village & Plaza Apartments and Stonehaven Student Apartments </p>
<p>Bannockburn Village is very close to campus like literally across the street and it is very very cheap for the price, but it is very old. I dont know much about here because not many of my friends live here.</p>
<p>All the other places like Plaza Apartments and Stonehaven Student Apartments are around 10-15 minutes walk to campus, some allow you to take the shuttle/trolley to campus.</p>
<p>Most of the people that live at Stonehaven are Sophomores that came from dorms last year. It is pretty nice and comes furnished and prices are around $550 if you share a room with someone and around $900 when you have your own room.</p>
<p>Some Plaza apartments near campus are Sterling & UV Towers.
The Plaza apartments are good because there are lots of eatery places nearby. For Sterling, the restaurants are right below the apartments, while for UV Towers they are in the same plaza as the apartments. Both of these places come furnished. Prices for a Sterling single room will cost about $700 and prices for UV Towers Single will cost you around $800. You share the apartment with 3 other people for these apartments. You can take tour of the apartments to check out the rooms yourself.</p>
<p>(Note: Prices were when i was visiting those places last year, so they might have gone up .)</p>
<p>“A CNAS Scholars Learning Community is located at each Residence Hall building and all rooms are same gender.” </p>
<p>Does that mean EVERY room in the hall are the same gender? Or are the genders of each room just same gender but you have rooms with both male and female?</p>
<p>@MehediMD</p>
<p>I am a transfer student, not an incoming freshman. Do you have any further commentary about the apartments on campus? The student life in them? etc.</p>
<p>^ thanks bobaboi. </p>
<p>My biggest concern is I want to still have some sort of interaction with ‘student life’ if that makes any sense. I don’t necessarily want to live in the dorms because from what I have heard that is pretty much a freshman thing and then after their one year they move onto apartments or whatever it may be. </p>
<p>The UV Towers and Sterling are privately owned apartment complexes near the campus right? My fear is if I go that route that I am going to have to try and hunt down some other students to share a place with while on the other hand the ones that UCR owns/runs I can just apply for a room and they’ll provide someone for the other room right?</p>
<p>iamjustin,</p>
<p>You can still have interaction with student life by participating in student clubs that you have interest in or join a fraternity.</p>
<p>Yeah UV Towers & Sterling are both privately owned, but they also random you with other people if you don’t know anyone else, so you wouldn’t have to worry about someone else’s lease. You have your own lease contract with the apartments and pay directly to them.</p>
<p>two quick questions:</p>
<p>1) How are the intramural sports at Riverside?</p>
<p>2) On average, how many professors actually teach as opposed to TA’s?</p>
<p>random question:</p>
<p>If we have a car cover for our vehicle, can we use it to cover our vehicle when parked in the housing parking lot?</p>
<p>Pirsquared,</p>
<p>1) for intramural sports, you set up a team with a group of your friends. Im only familiar with basketball. They have different leagues for basketball. One is a fraternity league, one people below 6’’ and another one is anyone allowed.</p>
<p>2) In all of my classes, the teachers teach the lectures, but TA’s teach discussions, but I’m a business major so the sciences might work differently.</p>
<p>Sky-Raptor,
You have to have a permit to park your car. I’m guessing u could have a car cover, but the parking services might lift it up to check if you have a valid permit.I remember a few people having car covers in the dorms. Double Check with the parking services first! Im not too sure of my answer.</p>