<p>I was wondering who else was going to UCSC? If you are, please write here!</p>
<p>WOW!!! I'm very happy to be attending there!!! I have a 3.182 GPA, 1090 SAT, no extra curricular, no AP's until my senior year (calc AB, Physics AB). I might not be the perfect student who has a 4.0, but I sure enjoyed highschool to the fullest extent possible!!! </p>
<p>For all those who worked their asses off, pulling an all nighter, I truly feel sorry for you. You might be going to a name brand school, but the education we will recieve will be the same! </p>
<p>ANYWAY, so who else is an upcoming banana slug here? lol</p>
<p>congrats on getting into ucsc its a good school. But i do have to argue that the education we will get will be the same, I myself have heard from UCLA and am waiting on a few Ivies and privates, although UCSC is a great school I think the networking from a private and the name recognition of UCLA or another school outweighs UCSC. But anyways congrats.</p>
<p>transferjoe, I would agree that the name recognition DOES outway UCSC, but I doubt that the education system matters much. If you plan to major in Mechanical Engineering, they arent going to be teaching you false information at both schools.</p>
<p>I have two children at UCSC now - one graduated Saturday but has a summer job there, and another who just finished her sophomore year and will attend the summer session. And I graduated from UCSC in 1971.</p>
<p>The optional written evaluations are reputedly (from posts on the old UCSC forum) a great help for science and engineering undergraduates in applying to graduate school.</p>
<p>UCSC has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, proportion of "adjunct" (not full-time career track) faculty of all the UC's, and offers a lot more hands-on work & opportunities for undergraduates than most UC's. This is absolutely true for the performing arts, film and many of the sciences plus engineering. Some majors are dreadful - English is probably the worst.</p>
<p>IMO UCSC is the best place in the state for undergraduates in the performing arts. A sophomore had a singing role in Don Giovanni a few weeks ago. A young man from my children's high school who had just finished his freshman year had a speaking role in summer Shakespeare two summers ago.</p>
<p>My daughter was a walk-on freshman stage manager for the largest production in the student-run dramas (Chataqua) in the spring of 2004, and did so well she was drafted into the Shakespeare program at the start of the fall 2005 quarter - she hadn't applied.</p>