Ranking UCSD colleges

<p>=) Well said, ghostblade.</p>

<p>wow are you <a href="mailto:r3t@rd3d">r3t@rd3d</a>. how would grad schools NOT care about an applicant being well rounded? use common sense...</p>

<p>all those that disagree must be coming from colleges other than revelle. nice try</p>

<p>i wouldn't be tooting the horn if i didnt have proof that revelle does generally do better. on library walk i had a conversation with a johns hopkins rep and a usc rep for med school (the tables were right next to each other). i was complaining about hum and all the ge's revelle forces us to do, and both said that while "technically" the weight of which college in ucsd you came from isn't supposed to matter, they compared the extra boost of being in revelle like being a legacy to harvard. it assuming you have the grades to back you up, you obviously can't have a 3.0 gpa and expect to get in anywhere just cause youre from revelle. it is merely smiled upon and can be that extra kick to get you in the door. and with the competition these days, we need all that we can get. and they did stress the importance of well roundedness- maybe its just med schools that care and grad schools dont mind? who knows, these were just reps from the med schools. they said revelle forces you to be well rounded, thats what gives that extra boost courtesy of our dear Roger. a usc rep said verbatim "no one in their right mind would want to make a doctor out of a kid who can only excel in one area" and also something like being good at only 1 thing demonstrates a very narrow interest field, because if we look at a transcript and every class this kid took and got an A in is in one particular branch of study, it shows they didn't bother to think outside the box. and then he said "nothing excites me more than a biology major who minored in art history, or took greek classes amidst the sea of bio classes for their major" </p>

<p>i'm sure he was exaggerating, but the point is: well-roundedness is important, and can really affect the way admissions people perceive you as an individual rather than a list of pointy lettered grades. and Revelle can help with that whole well-rounded aspect of learning.</p>

<p>If like ERC has harder GEs, does that mean the smarter/better students are placed there??</p>

<p>^No. 10 char</p>

<p>wait someone mentioned that Revelle is good for pre-med students. Why is that? can someone explain?</p>

<p>What is a GE?</p>

<p>general education requirement. they’re college-specific. google for more.</p>

<p>Here’s what the provost of Muir said at Admit Day last year.</p>

<ol>
<li> Muir gets the most applications.</li>
<li> Muir has the highest GPA for admittees.<br></li>
<li> Muir college students had the highest GPA at graduation and got the most awards at graduation.</li>
</ol>

<p>The top floors of Tioga Hall have awesome ocean views. The new dining hall, Sierra Summit is great. Muir has a lot of spirit and activities. Go Muir.</p>

<p>^Yeah, but ERC dorms are nicer. Therefore, we win :D</p>

<p>^ sure erc has nice dorms, but u can hear through the walls. ull never get any privacy there. if u want a really good time and u want spirit and chillax ge, then you def. want muir! oh, and if ur lucky, ull get a nice ocean view, like me! haha</p>

<p>^The thin walls aren’t a big deal, trust me. And you get pleeenty of privacy if you want it.</p>

<p>Guys what should I rank as #1 and #2 if I wanna major in economics, don’t want a triple, and can get some decent food?</p>

<p>i want ot major in pharmacological sciences… which GE should i with??</p>

<p>@spatel23 - read post #107. we don’t have a pharmacological sciences major. you don’t need to think about your GEs until you get here, you’ll have enough college-mandated ones to busy yourself with that the electives can wait until later.</p>

<p>Is the college choice less important for transfer students than it is for incoming freshman? I’m going to be an incoming junior next fall (hopefully) and am wondering if that will change anything regarding many ge’s already being completed for which college would be the most lax and which would be the most strenuous.</p>

<p>@astrina
lol that was a typo… i meant Pharmacological Chemistry… which of course is a majorr (oopsie!)
as far as the GE goesi got that
but doesn’t warren do programs of concentration (pofCs)… and Area Studies as their GE reqs.?/im looking into warren, but my choices are ERC and maybe Revelle??</p>

<p>lol thanks astrina!!</p>

<p>yes, each college has its own version of the PofC (warren) or area of focus (revelle). but honestly, don’t even think about those until you’re actually assigned to a college. now is the time to spruce up your application to be UCSD-worthy, not to contemplate possible classes in a possibly college that you possibly might get admitted to. it’s senior year of high school - go have fun!</p>

<p>lol astrina!
im having fun but hte problem i them asking us which one college we want ot be in… its like so many choices, so little time lol…</p>

<p>i have a question though… if you belong to one college can you still go visit other colleges, if yes… how far are they from each college i guesss…</p>

<p>it is purely worded, i know, but i guess do each colleges have a certain distance from each other or are they next to each other??</p>

<p>have you looked at a map?</p>

<p>Spatel, all of the colleges are on the UC San Diego campus, within maybe a 20 minute walk of one another (just a complete guess, as I’ve only ever toured the campus). If you look at a map, you can see that the six colleges are kind of in a circle, with the medical center off to the East. Essentially, anyone in a different college as you is simply dorming at a different location on campus. You can attend classes together (other than GEs specific to a college, such as the writing sequences) and hang out together, you just can’t dorm together (at least for your first year, I’m not sure how on campus apartments work). I hope this helped :)</p>