<p>I found it funny that not once did anyone ask who I was or what my name was. Anyone could have gone even if you weren’t admitted. I even rsvp’d for a special breakfast and they didn’t ask who I was.</p>
<p>@valerierose</p>
<p>You should join the Pepband! And also, I’ll be an RA for Warren next year so I could be your RA too. How exciting I know. Ha ha.</p>
<p>@$KingsElite$: That’s exactly what my dad said when we passed by the pep band. After 4 years of band in high school (+ 5 more in previous years), I think I’ll try to stay away from band for at least the first year so I can find my own forte. My school’s band program is gigantic and I’ve always been kind of defined as a “band person.” But who knows? Maybe my sax might be calling me after all! </p>
<p>I guess we all had different experiences with the tour. My RA was pretty happy about everything and she made jokes every once in a while. Some of the other RAs seemed pretty reserved. </p>
<p>The welcome session was just kind of dull and lacking of spirit. The people holding up the signs in the beginning were trying to make small talk but it kind of failed. I can see why some people loved the welcome session and why some hated it. The random statistics kind of killed it for me too. I kept thinking that they were at least going to address some of the statistics and was often distracted. The statistics about the C/O 2015 in the beginning was really not that necessary.</p>
<p>“But to me that welcome session wasn’t a ‘welcome,’ it was a sales pitch.”</p>
<p>Isn’t that the whole entire purpose of admit day? ;)</p>
<p>Anyone else feel that the campus wasn’t as beautiful as expected (as seen from pictures)?</p>
<p>As a future BioEng major admitted to Sixth, I have to say that Admit Day really forced me to consider UCSD a LOT more.</p>
<p>I have scoured this forum for information on 6th, and a lot of it is negative (bad dorms, too new, etc.) but what I saw from the students I met from 6th completely changed my mind. The students seemed united and happy to be there together, even though it was an awfully early hour of the day, especially considering it was Saturday. They seemed to enjoy the ge’s and I talked with a few engineers who said that the ge’s weren’t difficult to handle at all and that (at least in their opinion) there seems to be a tie between how many engineers are in 6th and warren. </p>
<p>As for the tour of the residence halls, they weren’t spectacular, but they also were not the monstrosities I expected from reading posts about them. There are several brown buildings around a central patch of grass that our guide said is used by most undergrads for frisbee or something of the like, and that this is where a lot of students in 6th meet each other. There is also a little laundry room and stuff that all of the buildings have to share.</p>
<p>A RA that I met during a Student Voices info session said that RA’s plan fun events for the people in their building throughout the year, and they try their best to make the requests of the people in their building happen . One RA was working on planning a party that would be held on the top floor of a parking structure because one guy in her building and quite a few of his friends asked for it. </p>
<p>The bioengineering portion of the day was spectacular in my opinion. There are several engineering clubs that I hope to join should I decide to go to UCSD (BMES, women in engineering, enginners without borders, etc.) and some clubs not related to engineering (habitat for humanity, for example). The session was nice. Lots of facts that I’m too lazy to list, but they essentially said that UCSD’s program is the best, most innovative and is one of a kind and that we were ■■■■■■■■ if we picked a different school. After the session, we got to tour the labs which looked amazing. Lots of high-tech equipment in buildings that looked great.</p>
<p>Synopsis:
Sixth is great. Students are friendly. Dorms are so-so.
Engineers are amazing and UCSD’s program is too.</p>
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<p>What do you mean by too new?</p>
<p>some people say that the college is too new and feel that graduating from 6th will have an adverse affect on their future prospects (grad school, jobs…). Fortunately the Dean of something or other said that what college you graduate from has no affect on this because, in the end, you are graduating from UCSD.</p>
<p>@chismoso: I love the campus and found it to exceed my expectations. Definitely better that UCLA and Cal in my opinion.</p>
<p>@biologeek</p>
<p>That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Try following the logic on that one. You pretty much take the same classes are everybody else from the other colleges, other than the one writing class. I don’t think grad schools admit you by the writing class you took as a freshman.</p>
<p>@biologeek:</p>
<p>I am a NanoEngineering major in Sixth, also female (I’m assuming you are, since you mentioned Women in Engineering). Perhaps we’ll meet each other! If you meet someone named Amber with the aforementioned attributes come September, that’s me. (:</p>
<p>Grad schools nor employers will even know what college of the six you were in.</p>
<p>@ KingsElite
I know, I was simply stating that that was a concern of someone I ran into while at admit day, and I posted it here just in case someone else had that same question.</p>
<p>@itsina
Hopefully! Maybe we’ll run into each other at freshman orientation. :D</p>
<p>Haha Kenny, you’re still helping the newbies out! Good stuff.</p>
<p>@biologeek</p>
<p>Oh I know. I wasn’t saying you were stupid, I’m just confused by the kinds of people that start these sort of rumors.</p>
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<p>^ Nice all taken by you?</p>
<p>Yeah. Only about half of them were actually on admit day, though. I wish I had gotten some pictures of the inside of the Warren dorms.</p>
<p>thanks for posting these, i forgot my camera 
just out of curiosity whats your major?</p>
<p>Technically Earth Sciences, but I’m switching to undeclared as soon as possible.</p>