<p>Current students please give your feedback about UCI, how are the classes and the faculty, dorm etc?</p>
<p>Son is considering UCI for CS, thanks.</p>
<p>School hasn’t started yet, but I’m a freshman at UCI as a CS major and I’ll be sure to come back and tell you.</p>
<p>I really enjoyed UCI this past year even though UCI was not my first choice. There are lots of opportunities on campus that come with it being a large research university, I was able to start research my first year. There are TONS of things to get involved with, w/e you want. I have had some great professors(a lot better than I expected most of the time). One of the things that I never thought of before going to UCI but that I greatly appreciate is that the campus is organized in a nice circle with a great park in the middle! When I visited UCSD/UCD I thought I would go crazy because of the way they weren’t organized.
I am not a CS major, and most of those comments are pretty general. If you have any specific questions let me know!</p>
<p>I am a transfer student, and i went to summer school. </p>
<p>The classes are the same level of difficulty as the community college. I like the school, traffic is not as bad as LA. </p>
<p>There is no graduating limit cap which is nice.</p>
<p>@Art is Melodic</p>
<p>So UCI is pretty easy in general? In high school, i had a 4.67 GPA, ranked in top 1%, and passed all my AP tests, but I feel that UCI is gonna kill me. The only thing that really bothers me is competition because I know my stats from high school don’t matter here. I keep thinking that I’m gonna fail all my classes no matter how hard I study.</p>
<p>um… I did not say it was easy, I said it was the same difficulty as the community college. </p>
<p>Calculus at Berkeley will most likely be the same as Calculus at a cal state. Limits, derivatives, integrals all that good stuff will be taught anywhere. </p>
<p>If you study electrical engineering at a cal state or a UC you are pretty much learning the same things, otherwise they would not get recognized as engineers. </p>
<p>To be honest we are just paying more for the name of the school, the only difference is the amount of test we will get. My final was 50 percent of my grade, my midterm was 35 and quizzes was the other 15 percent. At the community college my finals would not be more than 30 percent of my grade. </p>
<p>The reason high school is easy for people is because they move sooooo slow and if you mess up on 1 test its no big deal. </p>
<p>So generally speaking two students who study the same subjects at different schools will most likely learn the same things and get tested on the same thing.</p>
<p>And we also pay more for the research opportunities, If your your good enough to be apart of.</p>
<p>and I thought it would be competitive as well, but to be honest sometimes you will be asking “How did you get into a UC?” </p>
<p>and you will remember how trivial high school was.</p>
<p>Don’t take this the wrong way, I like UCI and I am very happy there. Remember you don’t need a football team to go zot zot zot!.</p>
<p>I am a second (starting next wk!!!) year about to start! Personally, from what I noticed from others and the general population (except a few individuals) MANY (read–a HUGE majority) did not consider UCI to be a top/first choice. However, MANY (read–a huge majority, again hahah) have come to LOVE and accept the numerous opportunites that the campus offers. Being perfectly honest, the school is HIGHLY underrated. </p>
<p>I am a Aerospace Engr. Classes esp, the technical course (math/science) are curved, this means only a certain percentage of the class will get A’s, B’s etc. It can get very competitive in these courses. </p>
<p>I really LOVE UCI and I am honestly glad that the other schools rejected me. I honestly do not think that I would be as happy at Cal/LA (for example). The people here are amazing and really nice. I have made many new friends, and honestly can’t imagine going to another school. </p>
<p>PS Newport/Hunington are just a few miles away, the city is beautiful. The only thing I don’t like is that the weekends are rather boring at times, and not having a car can be annoying since buses don’t run late into the night… Also, the majority of the buildings are less then 10 years new, so the campus looks very new, and clean cut! Seriously, consider the school, its changed a lot since its opened!</p>
<p>Same, I was going to go to SD but got into my last choice college so I decided on UCI after visiting the campus. After going to orientation, I really think I’ll like it there this year. The environment is pretty different than the other UCs since so many buildings are new, and that really helps the image of the school imo, like when I look at all of the new shiny buildings in China compared to the old ones here in LA.</p>
<p>UCI was not my first choice, but after two years I take pride of attending this university, enough such that I didn’t bother to apply to transfer despite having a 3.90 college GPA back then.</p>
<p>I’m a second year Aerospace Engineering major and I enjoyed my first year at UCI. I tried to get involved during my first year while balancing my classes. A lot of people say that it’s boring at night, but really, it’s not! The things that students do on campus are pretty secret, meaning that you really have to get involved on campus to enjoy life at UCI. Granted, there are parties and stuff, but if you’re in clubs, there always an event going on where you can mingle with people and learn new things. I remember someone said about UCI that the students make things happen. You need to get out there and get involved because things won’t always come to you.</p>
<p>Classes-wise, because I’m an engineer, a lot of my classes were heavily curved, especially physics (50% is a C+). Don’t worry about the competition and all those horror stories about how everything is cutthroat. Just focus on your own studies, make sure you learn the material, and ask for help when you need it. Take tutoring and go to office hours and that way, you will succeed.</p>
<p>My dorm was kinda boring because I lived in an academic wellness hall (or something of that sort) and people were usually in their dorms all the time, studying or hanging out with people within the dorm. Not a lot of people got really involved and people just did their own thing. Not exactly the best dorming experience in my first year but I’m not really complaining. </p>
<p>If you have any more questions or concerns, PM me and I’ll gladly try to answer your questions :)</p>
<p>I like it</p>
<p>admissions and FA Though</p>
<p>I don’t like it</p>
<p>Thank you all for replying, son is a high school senior, and wants to be in CA we are OOS - US citizen applying from abroad. He is applying to USC and SCU.</p>
<p>We live in Asia now so he is used to having many nationalities around and he enjoys it. So I gather he will feel at home there!! </p>
<p>How is the faculty and the student body. UCI seems to be getting difficult to get in and with sons B/b+ gpa I am not so sure that he will get in. I hear stories of people getting into UCSD and not UCI!! Is that true?</p>
<p>A friend from LA is moving to Irvine so its a safety blanket for us that there will be a person to help out nearby.</p>
<p>If any of you have any direct experiences about the CS Math or Physics courses please let me know, thanks.</p>
<p>i hate it.</p>
<p>a lot of asians. sorry i’m asian myself. but i like diversity. i feel like an odd one out ironically, and i don’t wanna make friends w/ neone. LOL i sound super pessimistic. HAHA.</p>
<p>To tricky donna:</p>
<p>what classes are you taking? </p>
<p>hit up the math and science department with all the latinos.</p>
<p>But aren’t there a lot of asians no matter where you go in CA? Even UCB has a high percentage…</p>
<p>^ yeah, totally. They have like 41% Asians there (don’t quote me on that)… and you’re going to find a lot of Asians everywhere. California is full of immigrant diversity. </p>
<p>This isn’t directed towards anyone specifically, just in general, I get real tired of people saying they don’t like UCI (or any other college) because of too many Asians. I was guilty of saying that once (and yes I AM Asian too), but after I came to UCI I started truly realizing that it didn’t matter. What does ethnic diversity have to do with individual diversity? Every person I met was most likely Asian but I stopped noticing a LONG time ago because what I would notice first would be how they were as a person, what their personality was like. It’s college now, and it’s time for people to grow up a little and open up their minds.</p>
<p>^ Agreed, and by asians you mean Korean, thai, vietnamese, chinese, japanese and Indians right? So that by itself is a huge diversity.</p>
<p>We live in Asia, we love it here!</p>
<p>Any updates on the budget front - cuts/pullbacks etc.</p>
<p>so i just had my midterms… </p>
<p>UCI is not for the faint of heart.</p>
<p>^ really? how so? plz explain im looking into colleges soo how’s uci?
particularly biomajors?</p>