I’m applying as a Psychology major and I have been researching the 6 colleges so I can rank them in the app. So far, all of the answers have been pretty varied so I am not entirely sure which schools should be at the top of my list.
I am more interested in the arts and liberal arts courses than math/science, and am introverted. I love new buildings/dorms and I like a close-knit community rather than one where I have to make huge efforts to make friends (which I am terrible at haha). Good food/dining hall is important to me and location wise, I prefer something not too far from the main school.
What are your recommendations?
I think Muir would be a good choice for you. It also has chill GE’s as well as the possibility to take multiple art classes for GE credit. Also, Pines(Muir’s dining hall) has really good food.
Hi, I have a similar question. I have just read through the 6 colleges on the website and the only thing that really stood out was that Muir is close to the beach. Are there any other strong differentiating factors for the 6 colleges? My son will probably major in social sciences (econ, history, etc). Thanks.
They all have different GE requirements. Some differences are substantial, others are only slight.
Here’s how to describe the people at each of the colleges.
Muir - party people
Sixth - too cool/athletes
Revelle - historical pride
Marshall/ERC - far off/never see them
Warren - down to Earth/CS majors
I just wanted to provide a counterpoint and say I have never heard anyone describe any of the colleges like this in my 4 years at UCSD or the couple of years since (and I still have frinds who are students there). Even when we are purposely trying to stereotype them. I don’t know if I would give them much (if any) weight.
“I just wanted to provide a counterpoint and say I have never heard anyone describe any of the colleges like this in my 4 years at UCSD or the couple of years since (and I still have frinds who are students there). Even when we are purposely trying to stereotype them. I don’t know if I would give them much (if any) weight.”
@baktrax - so, how would you stererotype them?
To be honest, I wouldn’t stereotype them. There’s no common prevailing stereotype among the colleges, and no reason for there to be one. There’s no trend for the type of student that any college attracts (except, perhaps for people saying Warren has a lot of engineering majors, which at this point has become a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, in my opinion), and there’s no real difference in the housing that I could tell after living in four of the six colleges that would promote a certain personality type. I had friends in all colleges, and there was really no stereotype that I could tell. I think people try to act like they are very different, but they’re really not that radically different.
Generally - Warren, Muir, and Sixth have the easiest GEs. ERC and Revelle have a lot more GEs. Don’t know too much about Marshall. You’ll see a lot of STEM majors gravitate towards Warren and Muir because of how demanding their majors are; they want GEs that they can easily knock out in order to focus on their majors’ requirements. Revelle’s GEs are very well-rounded, and ERC as well - however, I believe Revelle’s GEs focus on STEM a little bit more than ERC’s GEs, so maybe ERC would be a good choice for you.
When it comes down to it though, your college doesn’t really matter if you’re looking into liberal arts… You’ll get a good mix of people in all of the colleges either way. Just choose the one with the least/easiest GEs.
As a psychology major it’d be wise to look into the college that lines up with the requirements that you have to take. For example if you don’t have to take calculus as a psychology major, don’t choose Revelle. Best of luck!