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I don’t go to UC Berkeley, but I did turn down UCLA for UCSD. It was a really hard choice, just ask anyone on this thread that was here last year. I kept changing my mind. I was so indecisive that I actually submitted SIR’s to both school. I later retracted my SIR to UCLA, but to be honest, I tried to resubmit it, however, UCLA said no.
Initially,I didn’t feel any regrets, but as the school year progressed, I started to regret my decision. There was a lot of drama during my first quarter. The police showed up to my dorm, I didn’t see eye to eye with one of my roommates, and we had a hard fallout with a “friend”. In terms of academics I had lost interest in my major, computer science. This was the thing that hurt the most since I had picked UCSD over UCLA because of my major. At that time I felt like I had missed out on my dream school over a major that I didn’t even like.
However, time passed and I met more people. Eventually, my roommate and I patched things up, and I also ended up growing closer to my other roommates. As I took more computer science classes, I regained the interest I had lost for my major. Every now and then I wonder what I would be like if I had picked UCLA, especially when the UCSD’s dull social atmosphere gets to me, and that will probably never stop, but deep down inside I know that I made the right decision for the long run.To put icing on the cake, I get really excited when I see all these high paying internships. So to answer your question, no, I don’t regret turning down UCLA.
No why would we? UCLA is like, 5th tier. Right @Cayton?
JK. But seriously, no.
@music1990
Agreed. 
These 2 schools are so different in atmosphere. Academically & notoriety-wise they are very competitive with one another on many majors. Some are clearly stronger at one than the other. However, they are so fundamentally different in campus vibe, atmosphere/setting, etc that I have a hard time imagining not feeling strongly in favor of one over the other after a visit.
^ Agree. Thats why visiting can have such weight in decisions.
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I knew UCLA wouldn’t be a good fit for me at all, so I don’t look back and think how life would have been had I gone there. Also, I like living in the Bay Area.