<p>I'm sure you guys've seen many of these topics, but what I need is a little different. I really don't understand this process and am kinda clueless about it. </p>
<p>-First of all, does choosing "a college" impact your courses? I'm leaning towards comp sci, so could a person only fit at one or two colleges simply because they're the only ones with the person's preferred courses? </p>
<p>-Are these "colleges" actually geographically separated along with each college's dorms etc? </p>
<p>Overall, could someone provide some links or something where I can learn about the overall process and what it involves, and how these colleges and the people at them are similar or alike?</p>
<p>Finally, as for choosing, I'm Asian and leaning towards engineering so I'm pretty much the typical Asian lol. I like music and love video games, but I absolutely NEED to stay away from stoners, partiers, and really nerdy people. So far only College eight has reached me and I rather like the idea of their furthering Green tech etc, so how are the according to my preferences?</p>
<p>What college you are in only affects what core course you take. It’s a one-quarter writing class that has a theme dependent on the college you are in. Except Stevenson’s course is two quarters long, but it fulfills the second writing requirement too.</p>
<p>Yes. The colleges are separated geographically. Each college has a sister college that is right next door, but any other college will take a 5 minute walk to get to at least.</p>
<p>The UCSC website itself is pretty helpful. [UC</a> Santa Cruz -The Colleges](<a href=“http://housing.ucsc.edu/colleges/index.html]UC”>UCSC’s 10 Colleges)
Some colleges attract more of a certain type of people, but there is always a decent mix no matter where you go. Crown gets a lot of academics and geeks, Porter trends toward art students and people with a more liberal opinion of drugs, and Cowell gets more of the jock type because it’s by the gym. </p>
<p>College 8/9/10 are all fairly similar with no particular stereotype, and you’d do fine at them. Crown/Merrill is your best bet at avoiding drugs/parties. Speaking as a Crown student, there are some very nerdy people here, but it is not at all hard to find people who are casual about gaming/whatever else. Many people here are like you- they game, but they’re mostly here for the engineering community aspect.</p>