<p>@leftmeshimmering: You have a good chance. Your GPA is above average, and your ECs are similar to mine. I also do a lot of art in my spare time and very few ECs otherwise. Getting that 4.1 is good because if you get initially denied for whatever reason, your appeal would likely be approved. There’s not much you can do in the month other than improve your essay.</p>
<p>During the preview, I’m not sure. There are guided tours I think, but I’m guessing they don’t cover all of campus. Nothing is stopping you from looking around yourself. There will be plenty of students to point you in the right direction if you get lost!</p>
<p>If you’re rejected, you are able to write a letter of appeal to ask the admissions committee to reconsider their decision. With UCSC, if you have decent statistics (and you do) a somewhat articulate letter would likely get you an offer of admission, even if you were initially turned down.</p>
<p>no need to bike ~ Walk!
if your going from college 10 to oaks then take the bus, everything else it should take around 5-10 mins to get to your destination.
Plus by walking its great exercise and promoting the freshman negative 15 rumor</p>
<p>I’m really interested in the arts, and thinking about becoming an art major. Is UCSC a good school for art majors? I’ve been looking at their website, and I’m getting a really good vibe from this school. I’ve completed my application and I’m just working on my personal statement. Just want to know anything you guys know about the art program, thanks!(:</p>
<p>What’s the difference between the different colleges? How far are they from each other? And how do I know where I’ll end up?
I’m a future psychology major if that’s relevant.</p>
<p>@AMParker: My roommate is an art major. She really likes the program, it’s just a pain to get into the pre-major classes. ): It’s one of the most impacted majors at the school.</p>
<p>@mashka92: Good? Bad? It all depends on the kind of person you are and what you’re looking for. Don’t ever believe that any one college is better than the rest. I know a lot of people dislike Crown but I absolutely love living here.
There are jobs through the college on campus definitely, not sure about off campus. I think your likelyhood of getting a job is somewhat dependent on your financial situation. </p>
<p>I’m not going to say a whole lot about the people, as each college gets some of every type. There are jocks in Crown and nerds in Porter, despite the stereotypes.</p>
<p>C 9/10 have the nicest dorms because they’re the newest, but that also means they don’t have much identity. There’s a reason they’re usually referred to as 9/10 or 19, they’re indistinct from each other.
C 8 also has really nice dorms, location is nice because you can see the ocean. Has a very suburban feel. Also not much identity, but their supposed focus is environmental sustainability.
Oakes is a bit of an oddball. Very interesting architecture. It’s probably the most ethnically diverse college.
Porter is highly stereotyped as an art college, and it’s very very true for this instance. The dorms are new (but not so nice, IMO), and one building currently holds the entire transfer student community.
Kresge is all apartments. If you want to be a frosh in an apartment, aim for this. There are paintings everywhere. Kind of like Porter it tends to be a art college, but a bit more general. Artsy rather than art, if that makes sense. Freethought and hippie-ish.
Crown is rather old so the dorms are so-so, and is also at the top of a giant hill (not like you won’t be tackling those anyhow, the campus is on a hill). It’s pretty heavily themed towards science so we get a lot of nerds, regardless of their actual major.
Merrill…hell, I live next to Merrill and I’m not really sure what goes down there! It definitely draws a diverse group, so it’s hard to define them in any way.
Stevenson/Cowell, quite similar. Old dorms. Draws a fair amount of jocks what with being by the gym, but there’s also a lot of lit students there. Cowell has a really nice view.</p>
<p>okay, this isn’t exactly a UCSC question but maybe someone can help me out here. i’m really hoping to get into UCSC, go for two years, then transfer to Cal, because i’d really like to go to a school nationally ranked in their politics department.</p>
