<p>Hey thought I'd let you guys know, (incase there are any other transfers milling around this topic) that I heard back from UCM a few hours ago and got in as a History major. No real plans to go there, they were one of my saftey schools, but getting in is still a good feeling.</p>
<p>In couple years, it should be top UC. I saw it myself and wow, one of the best campuses in california.</p>
<p>I didn't even apply, it feels too risky applying to a school that could potentially become the next UCR. Even if it did suceed, it would take a lot of time.</p>
<p>I think it'll be a great UC evetually, but once again, it's going to take a while... I applied mostly because I became perinoid while doing my apps, and convinced myself I would get in nowhere.</p>
<p>i just wish i got in so i can swim in the in-door pool</p>
<p>I really wanna know. Is anybody considering or planning to attened merced?</p>
<p>i dont think itll become a top school... i mean.. location, location, location. its in the middle of hickville. on the road to UCM, i drove past a house with a COW in the front yard.</p>
<p>i saw the lake and it looked really nice, it looked crowded even though there weren't any students. i went at the end of summer 04, and they were still building it so i couldnt take a tour. </p>
<p>from their engineering majors, it reminds me of UCSC, how they try to have engineering majors "of the future"... no mechanical eng, no civil... </p>
<p>along the road going there i counted like 8 different churches, must be a really conservative, religious community?</p>
<p>i dont think itll become a top school... i mean.. location, location, location. its in the middle of hickville. on the road to UCM, i drove past a house with a COW in the front yard.</p>
<p>i saw the lake and it looked really nice, it looked crowded even though there weren't any students. i went at the end of summer 04, and they were still building it so i couldnt take a tour. </p>
<p>from their engineering majors, it reminds me of UCSC, how they try to have engineering majors "of the future"... no mechanical eng, no civil... </p>
<p>along the road going there i counted like 8 different churches, must be a really conservative, religious community?</p>
<p>My friend is and he sounds chill about it. They just had a big article about UC Merced in today's edition of the LA TIMES.</p>
<p>I got accepted... but I'm going to SFSU, reason is that the college will be too small, I like the big city and closeness to already developed things.... anyone talk to anyone in Merced? we talked to some and I felt like I was in an area where the college could raise the avg. IQ 20 pts.</p>
<p>^^^ hahahah yeah hickville i guess</p>
<p>If UCM had a grad school/med school, i'd attend after graduating from Berkeley.</p>
<p>It wont be a top UC anytime soon; UCSD took 30 years before it went to Tier 1 and back then, there weren't any budget problems.</p>
<p>However, UCM will be top tier if UCLA and Berkeley decide to do the right thing and privatize, so more funds could be allocated to the lower UC's. The higher UC's would be better off as well, since both have the capability of raising huge amounts of money.</p>
<p>I would consider UCM if UCLA rejected me...... I want to become a high school teacher or prinicipal .....</p>
<p>i think the biggest factor in choosing merced over other schools is how much of it will be completed before september.</p>
<p>Anyone attend the April orientations (last weekend and this weekend)? </p>
<p>I'm wondering what's on the "drawing board" to be completed within the next year - and whether that's discussed at all in orientation.</p>
<p>i think its a really good school and after looking at other schools, i'm starting to like the "everything about a big school" in a small school type of setting. so its one of my top three!</p>
<p>well the reason it wont become a top school soon is because there letting so many students in to try to reach full capacity, they are taking lower gpa's to fill up.</p>
<p>actually, in some of the classes the student ratio is 1 to 11, and the professors do teach, not the TAs. In my personal opinion, the small classes that uc merced offers make learning much more enjoyable and exciting. Whole classes even set up study parties, meetings for breakfast, lunch, dinner ect. </p>
<p>Honestly, the professors at UC Merced are some of the best professors. A great percentage of the professors come to Merced after teaching from Berkeley. A big chunk of the professors have taught at Stanford, and some have even taught at Oxford. Not only that, but they're extremely nice! and very accessible. In fact, a friend of mine is taking independent study and being taught by a professor in the library, and he's getting two credits for it. Another fellow freshmen student, actually a handful of students, are going to be doing research with some of the professors this summer in applied mathematics and some are doing research at the sierra nevada areas (mountains). Its a chance to become recognized! The professors are easy to talk too, I know some of them personally. Its not uncommon for a professor to ask the student to be an aid or do research for him/her.<br>
As for the clubs, UCMerced does offer a great number of clubs, but it has a lot of room for more. Its actually easy to form a club.<br>
And the library is awesome! its huge, its about four stories tall. the library even has its own little private rooms that small study groups could study in. and each one is equipped with classroom size white boards and markers, and about five comfortable chairs and a table! tall cielings too, white, cool (comfortable chilly temp) rooms that the voice kinda echoes in. So if you need to study physics or just to show off your skills in physics on the whiteboard with some friends, for example, i recommend these rooms. Most of the time, one (or more) of these rooms are vacant. </p>
<p>Nice chairs, whiteboards, small classrooms, cool dorms, parties on thursday, clubs, accessible and brilliant professors, and research opportunities.....
a lot of fun and sure makes learning a hell of a lot more enjoyable.</p>
<p>its a very chilled school.<br>
And also, they do have a cafe down stairs, and a great dining commons....
i would really consider going</p>
<p>...i kind of wish I had applied now..</p>