<p>I commute to UCI and I strongly dislike it and I want to transfer to UCLA. Is it worth transferring? Im on premed route so which school is better. if uci is i will stay but if not i transferring. does it look bad if I switch schools, especially sinc uci is known as a med school.</p>
<p>What's wrong with UCI?</p>
<p>I think it's pretty obvious UCLA is a better school than UCI. It'll come down to if you actually can transfer or not because intercampus transfers are pretty difficult.</p>
<p>Going to a "better school" isn't that big a deal in medical school admissions, and the transfer up to UCLA would be EXTREMELY unlikely to matter to anybody. It all depends on why the OP doesn't like UCI.</p>
<p>UCI is a great academic school...but I don't feel it's the school for me. I've visted UCLA and loved the atmosphere and it has a very different feel in terms of layout and feeling like a more social school.</p>
<p>So... UCI isn't social enough?</p>
<p>I just really want to love my collge experience and I havn't had one at UCI</p>
<p>Depending on how long it's been, it sounds to me like you just need time to adjust to college. Transfers can be disruptive, and if I'm right, it just means you're starting the whole process all over again.</p>
<p>I'd give it time, if I were you.</p>
<p>Yea I was thinking to give it time but I had such a horrible experience with a few bio majors here. I never believed that people would do anything to get ahead and crush others but I totally believe it now. People will bring you down and discourage you implicitly or explicitly. I am very respectful and nice towards my peers, but unfortunately b/c some have seen my academic progress they see me as competition and I strongly hate that. Neither do I care about the academic performance of others nor do i want to compare myself to others, but it seems like people are always asking me my grades (one person even said "oh man" when i told them i got an B+ in my class in front of me; i would never tell that to someone, instead i would tell them good job if anything) i guess i know i go to a competitive school and people are always going to want to know how their fellow peers are doing but idk. One time a girl asked me what i got on my exam and i told her i got a C and then i decided to ask her (b/c it's not fair that people always ask me and i don't ask them in return) and she told me "oh i did horrible, i don't even want to say." in my head i was like "what, that's not fair if she asked me first and found out my grade, but when i asked her in return she didn't tell me. along hte quarter she was telling me (I NEVER asked or even brought about the subject) she was scoring below the curve yet by the end she told me she got an A in the class. I scored above the curve but managed a B. This isnt even the half of it. i know i shouldn't base my experience off of some of the scenarios i have encountered but it's so hard not to.</p>
<p>It sounds like it'll just take time to make a close group of friends. UCLA, as a large public, can also be pretty competitive in its own ways.</p>