<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>First off, congrats on getting in! I know the wait was long and grueling, but it was worth it.</p>
<p>I just wanted to use this thread to answer any questions you guys had about UCSD and John Muir College in specific.</p>
<p>No question is taboo so ask away.</p>
<p>can you change college…like my first choice is muir college, but i got my second choice which was revelle…which is better?</p>
<p>Well, you can change college, but after your first year and even then, you have have to find someone who’d be willing to make a switch with you so the ratio is 1:1. Most of the time it doesn’t work since people end up falling in love with their college and dont want to change (in other words, you’re pretty much locked in to Muir).</p>
<p>As for which college is better, I’m going to give you the most political answer I can: Every college has its strengths and weaknesses. In the case of Revelle, if you’re a pre-med, a lot of the classes you need to take and GEs overlap. That being said, Revelle is a pain when it comes to the HUM series (their writing course) so it becomes difficult over several quarters cause you have to take 3 or 4 of them.</p>
<p>As for Muir, its pretty flexible. A lot of the GEs may seem random, but there are such few of them that you can easily manage to do both GEs and your Major requirements and Pre-med and possibly graduate in 3 years if you wanted. However, while Muir’s GEs are pretty basic and somewhat easy, it has Muir 40 and 50 (the writing courses). While they aren’t the hardest on the campus (MAE from ERC is), they are pretty difficult and time consuming. A lesson I’ve learned is that its easy to get a B but hard to get a C or an A.</p>
<p>So thats it regarding the colleges and stuff</p>
<p>Hows the housing at muir</p>
<p>darn!! i really wanted to get into muir…seems like its the more competitive ones…</p>
<p>You guys are super lucky this year cause you get 3 years of guaranteed housing b/c of the new apartments.</p>
<p>Now the main dorms are Tioga and Tenaya. Not going to lie, they look hideous on the outside. And even inside, unless you kind of decorate or something, it looks like a prison wall. After that though, everything is amazing. Muir has a unique system, the house system. Essentially every two floors is broken down in to a mini community called a house. In each house you have 8 suites (4 guys and 4 girls) and 2 HA (House Advisors). They’ll give you more info about that at Admit Day and/or orientation.</p>
<p>Point is, the housing system is pretty nice. Plus there are the new apartments (which look amazing) so you can look forward to that too</p>
<p>Does Muir have its own cafeteria or something? If it does, how is the quality of food?</p>
<p>^Every college does, and I think Muir’s is the best because OVT (Marshall’s dining hall) has been letting me down this year.</p>
<p>Pines (Muir’s dining hall) has decent food sometimes (like steak), but I think the prices are definitely higher than the other dining halls.</p>
<p>I am really excted that I got into muir. The intramurial sports are among all of UCSD and not simply Muir college right? Also, is Muir anymore fun than any other college, because that is what I have heard.</p>
<p>^IM sports are between all colleges.</p>
<p>@adl0816</p>
<p>I will admit that, sometimes the prices seem a little high, but at least the food is usually good.</p>
<p>IM Sports are handled by the Recreation department of UCSD. However, Muir does have its own IM league each quarter for 3 sports: Intertube Waterpolo, Dodgeball, and Flag Football in Fall, Winter, and Spring quarter respectively. You just participate with your house and then compete against the other houses for the championship.</p>
<p>And adl, college is as fun as you want it to be. Muir does put on a lot of events and activities as a college and as a house (look above to see what a house is). If you want to have a good time, just get out there and be social and I can guarantee you’ll have a blast</p>
<p>I was accepted into Muir College for Political Science; however, I’m a transfer student. The only thing that affects me is the general education, correct? As a transfer student, i believe I’m only able to be housed in The Village?</p>
<p>^You’re right.</p>
<p>I was admitted into John Muir. How competitive is getting into the college? I simply chose it as my first choice because it had the least requirements.</p>
<p>^Muir is most selected as people’s 1st choice, so not everybody is going to get it.</p>
<p>@MickJagger…</p>
<p>I was talking to the Res Dean Pat D-something (no one knows how to spell her last name… i doubt she even knows how to). She said that this year about 75000+ or so people applied to UCSD (I believe thats what she said) and just under a third of those applications had Muir as their first choice. That should give you an idea of how popular it is</p>