Help with Ranking the Colleges

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>Hey everyone. So basically, I'm puzzled at the ranking order I should set in my app. Basically, I'm leaning towards a major in business/econ, med stuff(particularly pharmacy), or music (last resort). I've read a lot of the stuff posted before. But I don't know which college is best for the areas above. As of now, my rankings are the following: 1. warren 2. muir 3. erc 4. marshall 5. sixth 6. revelle. I just want to hear the different focuses for instance, I've heard that Warren is good for engineering. Anyways, help would be much appreciated. I'll be applying this month so I've already got my essays and most of the app filled out. Thanks!</p>

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<p>If you have a lot of AP credits, go with ERC. We have the best suites/dorms and we won like 8/10 of the awards on some UCSD magazine with best food, best bathrooms, best view, best college atmosphere and lots of other stuff.</p>

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<p>however, if you think about it, you probably should take into account for GE's. tho' housing mite matter, you don't want to be stuck in ur 5th yr at SD, trying to complete ur college's GEs. i would suggest MUIR, since it has the lowest amount of ge's and stuff;, giving u more time to work on ur major requirements.</p>

<p>housing differences between colleges are really minute, if you put things into perspective. pay attention to what each college requires of you, in terms of ge's; don't be caught up by minor aspects of each college.</p>

<p>just look at the four year plans for ur prospective majors and match it up with ur college's ge requirements.</p>

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<p>Sushi restaurant from this link, is it for ERC?</p>

<p>[url=<a href="http://hds.ucsd.edu/cafeventanas/photos.html#sushi%5DUCSD"&gt;http://hds.ucsd.edu/cafeventanas/photos.html#sushi]UCSD&lt;/a> Dining Services: Caf</p>

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<p>Please.....ERC has horrible GE requirements. You need foreign languange and take a silly writing class (MMW) that lasts a whole 2 years. Despite the fact that the dorms and buildings are newer, ERC is incredibly far from just about everything at UCSD. It's at the very top corner of the campus and isolated from everything else on campus except Marshall. </p>

<p>Best food? Honestly, food is almost the same at every single dining hall. ERC's dining hall lacks sandwiches, which is a real turn-off. ERC blows. Period. Don't let the new dorms lure you into the trap - it's like having sex with a hot model who turns out to have AIDS.</p>

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<p>Oh, that is a really good comparison. Right on the mark. Couldn't have said it any better.</p>

<p>P.S. - There are hot girls there ...</p>

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<p>Thanks you guys. By the way, where do i look at the four year plans for the prospective majors?</p>

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<p>if someone's doing premed w/ a major in the bio field, is it necessarily a must to go to revelle? b/c there's so many GEs</p>

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<p>so which ones are just better seriously. I know that UCSD students hate to admit that their house is not as good, but which ones are just academically better.</p>

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<p>HAHA mclovin. classic. so true. i would not be able to graduate from erc in 3 years without taking 5 classes a quarter a couple times. I'm in Muir and i can graduate easily in 3 yeaes and only take 3 classes.</p>

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<p>Well what you retards fail to know is that my AP credits have taken care of nearly ALL my GE's except MMW which isn't even THAT bad. We have the best public bathrooms, the best food at Ventanas, the best green to socialize and hang out and play sports, the best dorms, the best college experience (and all of this feats were in that one pamphlet that we won). We aren't far from everything, Sixth is. We're close to RIMAC and Solis. We win, you lose.</p>

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<p>Without calling you a retard, let me explain why your promotion of ERC falls flat on its face:</p>

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<p>It's hard to say bad it is. All we know that it is worse than any other college's required writing class simply based on how long MMW takes. Sure, maybe some people like MMW, but I think we can all agree that it is more ideal for colleges to force less classes on you. Forcing people to take a class that they may not like for TWO years is far from ideal.</p>

<p>Best food? Are you kidding me? I think I already told you that Cafe Ventanas doesn't have a sandwich bar. It's salad bar is also never fresh. Then Ventanas has the same grill (pizza/burgers) that every other dining hall has and the crappy daily specials that the other dining halls have too.</p>

<p>ERC is far from everything on campus that is actually useful for your education. Unless you plan to take your 4 years worth of classes all at Marshall or....RIMAC (lol)....ERC plain sucks when it comes to commuting to classes.</p>

<p>I don't know about the ERC green area, and I admit that your dorms/bathrooms/etc. are way better. But honestly, who comes to college to live in a nice 15x15 room and enjoy the finale of your digestive system? We come here to learn, and if it takes you half an hour to walk to your chem class in Revelle, then your living situation sucks. Period.</p>

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<p>Yea, that's the only thing you use to justify your garbage, especially about the food which I already explained is not true. And since you pathetically cling to this silly pamphlet, let me ask how exactly was it objectively determined that ERC won any of these things? Did students vote? I can't imagine students of other colleges supporting ERC, so I guess ERC students were more inclined to vote simply because they desperately needed something to show for their horribly lame college.</p>

<p>But you seem to be devoid of the ability to comprehend counter-argumentation, so I'll speak to you in words you can understand:</p>

<p>Suck it.</p>

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<p>Yeah? Well first of all, let me reveal myself as IRAN.4. Second of all, that silly pamphlet was campus wide, not ERC sponsored. Yeah our GE's suck, but it's up to the applicant and his AP credits. And I don't know about your obsession with sandwhich bars. I'm happy with my pasta/burger combination. As for walking to class, I don't walk. The only class I walk to is MMW and that's at Solis. Other than that, I use campus loop shuttles so bite me. ERC FTW</p>

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<p>Ummmm Cafe Ventanas has a salad bar LOLOLOL</p>

<p>Okay anyway. ERC is really not bad at ALL. The GEs are not that bad. If you are a non-science major especially but even if you are a science major. </p>

<p>The math and science requirements are easily taken care of because most majors require some sort of math series and a chem series. (And if you are non-science you can just take some fun classes like AIDS and Society and etc.).</p>

<p>MMW lasts long but you learn a lot (really really a lot!) and the first three classes basically easy As anyway. The papers you have to write for MMW help you with writing for other classes too.</p>

<p>Regional specialization is not a big deal because in the end, I'm having a lot of fun learning about my own culture and history and I know that without its being a GE I wouldn't have done it.</p>

<p>Language I admit can be a ***** but so many people I know are already bilingual or took classes in high school so it's usually not a problem.</p>

<p>I think our GEs are really good at doing what General Education requirements are supposed to do: open us up to other fields and give us a broad education.</p>

<p>I personally never take the shuttle because I love walking around the campus but plenty of my friends do take the shuttle and don't really complain. And anyway after two years you live off campus anyway.</p>

<p>Oh also, Cafe V not only has a salad bar but the food is actually usually good :) I'll admit Summit is really good too (but more expensive) and OVT is fantastic but it's so close that I feel like OVT is our dining hall too.</p>

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<p>GASP! You win. </p>

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<p>...and probably only people from ERC gave half a nut sack. Do you honestly believe people from other colleges would vote for ERC and not their own?</p>

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<p>ERC gives people less choices when it comes to what kind of classes you want to take, even if AP credits may skip out of them.</p>

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<p>...which you can get at just about any other dining hall on campus. Wow, you're making us jealous.</p>

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<p>Shuttles are slow and sometimes refuse to pick people up when they're full. I wish I could see the day you are late to your midterm because the shuttle was MIA or too full to pick you up.</p>

<p>And jm0407, I never said that Ventanas didn't have a salad bar. I said Ventanas had a salad bar that wasn't fresh. Please learn to read better.</p>

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<p>ERC is pretty nice but to say ERC is the "BEST" college is plain silly....... most ERC students hate MMW anyways....</p>

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<p>OOPS I meant sandwiches we have sandwiches :)</p>

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<p>When these are your justifications for why your college is the best, well, i think we all see the flaw in that.</p>

<p>Anyways, to the OP, i don't know that much about warren's (your current #1) GEs, but i know that muir's GEs are very flexible. The only bummer is the Muir writing forced classes that can't be taken as p/np, but those last only 2 quarters verses ERCs 6 quarters.</p>

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<p>Yeah well when I'm about to take a dump, I kinda appreciate the fact that the bathrooms are in clean condition.</p>

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<p>OMGZ are you stupid? The almighty pamphlet said that ERC won the category for bathrooms. My god, you're an idiot. /sarcasm</p>