<p>UCSD is a fine choice, just please do not go to SDSU.</p>
<p>^ Why do you hate SDSU so much?</p>
<p>… that pervades these boards. </p>
<p>The most important thing is that you find a place that you feel most comfortable, and you seemed to have found this at SDSU.</p>
<p>Here is [Calbar membership](<a href=“Attorney Demographics”>http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/demographics.aspx</a>) for undergrad institutions, page about 1/3 of a way down:</p>
<p>1 Univ of California at Los Angeles; CA 20,060 8.65 %
2 Univ of California Berkeley; Berkeley CA 17,796 7.67 %
3 Univ of Southern Calif; Los Angeles CA 7,180 3.10 %
4 Stanford Univ; Stanford CA 6,927 2.99 %
5 Univ of California Santa Barbara; CA 6,757 2.91 %
6 Univ of California Davis; Davis CA 5,456 2.35 %
7 Univ of California San Diego; La Jolla CA 4,903 2.11 %
8 Univ of California Irvine; Irvine CA 4,059 1.75 %
9 San Diego State Univ; San Diego CA 3,325 1.43 %</p>
<p>Neither SDSU nor UCSD are as prodigious as UCLA and Cal in producing attys, but that’s because both of the latter seem to draw more who want to be attys, and there’s a strong community of pre-laws off of which to feed at those two. </p>
<p>Doesn’t mean you can’t be an atty by attending SDSU which isn’t noted for this, a school which is noted more for those who just want a bac degree and become professionals thereafter, but be sure to study hard even when those around you are more into partying… work harder than everyone else. </p>
<p>There isn’t a whole lot difference, ~ 1,500-1600, between UCSD and SDSU’s membership, being fairly comparable sized institutions wrt undergrad enrollment.</p>
<p>Granted UCSD is A LOT more science-oriented than SDSU, but this doesn’t seemingly apply to you, unless you wanted to major in, say, chem, and then go to L school. UCSD is certainly a lot stronger in the sciences.</p>
<p>I admire your seeming wanting to save money, commute, etc, which will come to be a large benefit when you graduate with no debt at all from SDSU. And aren’t they offering you significant merit?</p>
<p>I disagree with Sentiment also, wrt humanities and other social sciences being “easy As” at UCLA.</p>
<p>Maybe your mind is more geared towards the non-Econ, English, history, types of perusal. </p>
<p>A lot of students at UCLA consider Econ fairly easy but some of the others painfully harder, more time consuming.</p>
<p>History and English, say, take loads of reading and writing, often with 10-15 books required for each of these classes.</p>
<p>
Yes, switching to Econ would be very detrimental to your GPA. Econ courses are mostly graded on a loose curve at around B or B-. Your GPA will be nowhere as high as say a History major.</p>
<p>On the other hand, economics majors tend to have better job and career prospects than history majors, so that may give a better “plan B” if you do not get into law school.</p>
<p>… who started as frosh in 2003:</p>
<p>UCSD:</p>
<p>History Majors 3.21
Other Social Sciences Majors (Inc. Econ) 3.17</p>
<p>UCLA: </p>
<p>History Majors 3.25
Other Social Sciences Majors (Inc. Econ) 3.19</p>
<p>This information isn’t given for SDSU. </p>
<p>Tyler (OP), when you state that you felt more comfortable at UCSD, I imagine this was among the UC’s, but that you felt most comfortable at SDSU among all?</p>
<p>English (& Lit) Majors same class which entered 2003:</p>
<p>UCSD, 3.34
UCLA, 3.35
Cal, 3.48</p>
<p>Cal: </p>
<p>History, 3.46
Other Social Sciences, 3.33</p>
<p>The English major at UCLA has a trio of weed-out classes the English 10 Series, and UCSD and Cal might have the same. It’s a really accelerated courseload that surveys all the biggies in English Lit. English is no cakewalk. I don’t think History is either, but that’s just my opinion.</p>
<p>Frosh class entering, 2003, graduated with these means:</p>
<p>UCSD, 3.21
UCLA, 3.30
Cal, 3.36</p>
<p>I’d be interested in knowing how many of the respondents on this thread have graduated college and are into the next phase of their life… in other words actually know what they’re writing about.</p>
<p>I have, and FWIW:</p>
<p>SDSU: nice campus, big time football and basketball, great party scene, beautiful city
UCSD: just read the dozens of comments on students review dot com . Nuff said
UCLA: like SDSU’s bigger brother, much more Ph.D. focus</p>
<p>Of those three, I’d put UCLA and SDSU as top choice, with UCSD last. I do think your GPA will be igher at SDSU, but I also believe adcoms will make an adjustment of .2 or so – whether formally, or subconsciously.</p>
<p>The risk is that you’ll arrive at SDSU and “settle” for half A, half B. That would impair you significanly in applying to grad school. You really would need 3.8+ from there to be competitive for law school, assuming equivalent LSAT scores from both. The unanswerable question is whether the academic experience at UCLA will enable a higher LSAT than that at SDSU.</p>
<p>@duninla why do you think that UCSD is not a great campus to attend? Form the threads that i’ve been readin it is extremely based on academics, like every college should. yes it is good to have a social life but it seems the social life at SDSU has consumed any chance of academics. And UCLA does offer the best of both worlds but I really don’t want to leave San Diego. So I think that the prestige and academic atmosphere at UCSD is alluring. </p>
<p>Why is it that everyone on cc says that your 4.0 in high school will turn into a 3.0 that your stuggling to keep when you go to either UCLA or Berkeley? That chart above shows that it is the most difficult to maintain a good GPA at UCSD. I’m confused?</p>
<p>Tyler:</p>
<p>what is your financial situation? Will you be covering 100% of your college costs by yourself, i.e., no help from your parents?</p>
<p>If no help from your parents, how can you afford to even pay for UCLA?</p>
<p>How is it that UCSD is so much less expensive? Will you be commuting from home?</p>
<p>Assuming a lot of debt if you are prelaw is not a good idea, so the $$ numbers can easily outweigh “better” social life.</p>
<p>It’s a mistake, it’s silly and its a ridiculous notion if you really want to go to law school.</p>
<p>I thought this thread title said “burning down”. And if that’s what you really meant then yes, it’s definitely a bad idea to burn down UCLA, UCB, and UCSD 
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<p>But it’s also a bad idea to TURN them down. I just don’t get why you’d do it.</p>
<p>No, I actually agree with you OP. If you really, really want to go to law school, then you should go to SDSU. On the other hand, I don’t think it would be too much harder to get a pretty high gpa from UCLA and go to a nicer school.</p>
<p>OP, Are you afraid you won’t get high GPA if you go to UCLA? I do hear lots of stories of students who got really high GPA from high school but are getting Cs at the lower UCs like UCI and UCD.</p>