<p>so...
in UCD posts, they have this thread asking which colleges did people pick UCD over......I just got curious about which college choices are people dropping for UCI....</p>
<p>I'm pickin UCI over UCD, Cal Poly SLO, UCR, San jose state...for comp science </p>
<p>wat abt u guys??</p>
<p>uc davis, ucsb are the two main ones.</p>
<p>Daughter not going to UCSD,UCD,Cal Poly SLO,USD,Santa Clara (All BIO), USF Nursing. Nursing Science it is for UCI.</p>
<p>Cal Poly SLO</p>
<p>uci over la, ucsd, usc, berkeley</p>
<p>Shoefactory:
Why?
What are you studying?
and can I have you Berkeley or LA spot?</p>
<p>yeah I'm curious why too! Why uci over ucla or ucb??</p>
<p>over ucd, cal poly slo, and sjsu for computer science. (loved the uci campus while on tour)</p>
<p>i got a scholarship.</p>
<p>Here ill just paste my pro and con note from facebook.</p>
<p>"I got into ucla, uci, cal, and ucsd. I don't want to go to cal and sd though so its down to uci.</p>
<p>I'll list pros and cons and feel free to comment. Oh yeah, and ill be a biomed engineering major for uci and a biochem major for ucla. I'll be premed for both.</p>
<p>UCLA
+ prestige
+ might be more preparing for mcat
+ more people i can relate to
- frikin small dorms
- hard to get high gpa
- hard to get research positions
- hard to get recommendations</p>
<p>UCI
+ 8.5k scholarship guaranteed for 4 years
+ honors program (which includes honors dorm, priority registration, and a "class" that sets you up for research)
+ 4.0 here i come
+ more relaxing, more time
+ 3.5x larger campus than ucla (larger dorms too)
+ easier to get recs
+ easier to get research (they have a lot of programs, esp for honors kids)
+ more time to study for mcat
- less prestige
- too easy?"</p>
<p>studying bio, switching to BME</p>
<p>is UCI really that easy?^^^</p>
<p>i might go to uci so maybe i'll see u all there!</p>
<p>haha, ShoeFactory you make UCI seem like a breeze. I have to personally agree a bit as a freshman though, haha. A lot of freshman tend to make mistakes or not care (which is completely normal in every other school). I do put a lot of work to keep my GPA as high as possible. I was able to almost pull off a 3.5 (I got a 3.49 =[ ) on 18 units last quarter but it was quite some work since I'm still learning how to study! Well...it was actually because of stupid writing. I hate trusting TAs to grade your essays. They vary too much.</p>
<p>Its not a breeze, but itll be easier than LA and cal.</p>
<p>I just have to hope i get an A in writing and all the sciences will be fine.</p>
<p>I passed over:</p>
<p>UC: Riverside
UC: Merced
UC: Santa Cruz
UC: Santa Barbara
UC: Davis</p>
<p>Cal Poly SLO, University of San Diego, UC Riverside, Sonoma State</p>
<p>Passed over UCLA, UCSD, and University of Redlands (who offered my a bunch of $$$ but is just WAY too close to where I already live...). Simple reason: they offered me more money. Longer reason: They offered me more money, I'm in the Honor's Program, guaranteed 4 year housing. And they offered more money.</p>
<p>ShoeFactory - I'll give you $1,000 if you graduate with a 4.0 from UCI. You make it sound like it's easy. Every year there are maybe 3 or 4 people out of thousands who graduate with a 4.0. One of my friends actually pulled it off...she's graduating from Johns Hopkins med this year. I have another friend who pulled it off in Poli Sci and she's doing a Ph.D. at Harvard now.</p>
<p>And I disagree that UCLA will give you more prep for the MCAT. I think that MCAT prep is more up to you than the school. Of all my friends who took it, the lowest score that I know of was a 33 and the highest was a 40 (the same girl who got the 4.0). But I think these people probably would have gotten the same scores regardless of where they went to school, where it was UCLA, MIT, or Cal State whatever.</p>
<p>As for me, I went to UCI over Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, USC, Notre Dame, and Brown. I was also in CHP and don't regret it for a second (maybe except for Saturdays in the fall where there's no football team to root for). I'm currently a grad student at UCLA, where I have tons of classmates who went to undergrad at more "prestigious" schools. But we all ended up at the same place, so UCI was a great choice for me.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon, it was a really tough choice for me. I was rejected from Stanford, Berkeley, and UCLA and I really wanted to go to California. </p>
<p>I'm majoring in Computer Science and Japanese; I know Carnegie Mellon has a better Computer Science program, but in the end my decision came down to where I thought I would be happier. I liked everything about UCI better than CMU, the only thing that I liked about CMU better was the prestige, which I thought was a superficial reason to choose a college.</p>
<p>the lack of 4.0's are usually because of what class?</p>
<p>and what you said really makes me feel that uci was the best choice.</p>
<p>snozle: Screw Carnegie Mellon :P.</p>
<p>Hey ShoeFactor, I agree with alicantekid. I've always heard from my cousins in med school and friends shooting for med school that nothing but yourself can prepare you for the MCATs. From what I've seen so far, the same goes for GREs. I'll end up doing nothing for GREs. I need to start studying by next year =. Also, the lack of 4.0s is due to UCI not having grade inflation. Remember an A- means a 3.7. The curves I've seen so far for lower-division permit about 17% of the students As and that doesn't mean a flat A - it includes A-'s. The professors here do not want to give out As like other schools. For example, the physics department has a policy that each class must have a 2.38 +/- 0.5 GPA average. That means the average can be a 1.88, which is a C-. Most teachers like to make the median a C+/B- though. You'll see more when you get on campus. </p>
<p>alicantekid: Let him go for now =]. He's just an incoming freshman. He'll learn for himself haha. By the way, what was your major at UCI and what are you studying at UCLA?</p>