<p>go see UCLA,
then consider what is best for your major. UCSD for Biological sciences in general...but UCLA's also excellent.</p>
<p>I'm undeclared right now, but I plan to go pre-psych. Both schools have excellent psych programs, but I'm also worried that UCLA's is too impacted. I still feel soooooo lost =-(</p>
<p>P.S Thanks for all the help tho!!! At this point I'm leaning more towards LA...but I'm def still waiting til College Welcome at LA and Admit Day at SD!
P.P.S. Any word on when SD acceptances are out? They might make it easy on me and reject me =-/ Who knows?</p>
<p>What kind of psych are you interested in? UCSD has absolutely top cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and experimental psychology in general (The guy who wrote Phantoms in the Brain teaches there), but it doesn't have clinical psychology, while UCLA does.</p>
<p>I'm most interested in behavioral and/or social psychology. I'd like to be an MFT or a psychologist specializing in children and family.</p>
<p>ooooo and also (not to sound superficial and materialistic) but UCSD's suites are prime. I fell in love with the set-up (particularly ERC's 2 yr old spacious suites!) When I went to see UCLA my friend's dorm in Sproul was nauseating. I really like the suite set-up. Does anyone know if any of the new halls at UCLA are suite style? I figure dorms are only the first 2 years tops...so I could get over the icky dorms at LA =-(</p>
<p>Well since you can't train for either of those in undergraduate anyway, you have to go and look at the course catalogs and see what appeals to you. You can get a great background in psychology at either one. The biggest difference that I know of is that UCSD's is a lot more biologically and physiologically based than UCLA's. In addition you may want to call up the admissions offices at both and ask about the psychology programs at each if you haven't; they do take questions like that, or at least tell you where you can get answers.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm considering UCLA for music and I'm checking out the dorms too. It looks like Sproul is one of the nastier ones, though I hear that the social experience is great, whatever that means. In addition to the residence halls though, there are also suite style halls and residence plazas, which are kind of a cross between the two. I've heard that Sunset Village (a residence plaza) in particular is nice.</p>
<p>Here's the UCLA on-campus housing website, though it doesn't have much information about the new halls (apologies if you've already seen this): <a href="http://www.housing.ucla.edu/housing_site/oncampus/index.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.housing.ucla.edu/housing_site/oncampus/index.htm</a></p>
<p>i want to major in biology and go on to med school, but right now im leaning more towards to UCLA. this doctor that went to UCSD told me that if i dont get into UCSD, i should go to UCLA. but what if i do get in? do any of you think it would be stupid to pick UCLA over UCSD as a bio major?</p>
<p>thank you! thank you! thank you! that housing info is great! makes me not dread dorm life as much! pretty cool that you got in for music erlkonig...my friend got denied and she ranks 1 in our class =-( where else are you thinking about going?</p>
<p>No problem! =) Glad it helped.</p>
<p>UCLA looks like a good fit for me since I've heard great things about the music department and my other interests include film, digital arts, and journalism. The places that would provide UCLA competition if I were to get in would be Johns Hopkins, Yale, and Harvard, but those are all of course major long shots. Maybe I'd look at Northwestern and Oberlin if I got scholarship money, but since I'm in-state for UCLA it would have to be a considerable one to match up and I'm not sure I quite have the qualifications to get that sort of deal.</p>
<p>erlkonig, there's a lot of suite-style living dorms at ucla. check them out:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.housing.ucla.edu%5B/url%5D">www.housing.ucla.edu</a></p>
<p>UCLA, because I'm biased.</p>
<p>with the whole housing sitch at LA...can freshman only live in the residence halls? or can they live in the suites and plazas (granted they are willing to shell out the bucks?) The suites, plazas and houses look so nice...I had no idea!</p>
<p>yes there are many freshmen that live in many of the different types of dorms. the freshmen presence is actually lowest at Sproul Residence Hall (about 10% of the entire hall... because this hall is popular with 2nd years). not many freshmen live in Saxon or Hitch suites either because they don't know enough friends to share a suite together. there are a lot of freshmen living throughout de neve and sunset village though, as well as in the residence halls (most notably hedrick and rieber). </p>
<p>also, not all returners are willing to shell out the bucks... nor do all returners want to live in suites or plazas.</p>
<p>UCLA 'cause its near a huuuuge baskin robbins.</p>
<p>thx kfc4u...are you a ucla student? what would you suggest to an incoming? and for everyone else inquiring about UCLA housing...my friend gave me a website...she's a 2nd year and she says prices should go up about 4% for 2005-2006</p>
<p>yea im a ucla student. i've written some dorming suggestions for incoming freshmen at the ucla forum. if you have more questions, let me know!</p>
<p>Anyone know how UCSD ranks as a grad school? do UC undergrads generally leave the UC system for graduate studies?</p>
<p>UCSD has a very good medical school
but UCSF also has a very good one</p>
<p>UCLA's med school isn't too shabby either (or am I mistaken?)</p>