I went to UCI in middle school to live there for a week; I liked it, and the labs and classrooms were nice as well as the campus, and the food was great. HOWEVER: I’m considering a match/safety school and want to shoot higher than that. The biggest reason, however, is that I want to get out of Irvine. Irvine is safe and quiet and all, but it’s sequestered from the world and quite frankly is boring after I’ve lived there for 16 years.