<p>Well, pretty much title says it all, anyone else offered this? Cal and UCLA extended this offer to me, but idk if I am going to take it....anyone in a similar position, thoughts?</p>
<p>Yes, and not happy about it. It seems like a cheap ploy to get UC Merced more students with high stats. I guess it could still be worse. I'm been working on an experiment. If you got excepted to this wonderful experiment are you from the central valley?</p>
<p>nope, not from the central valley...whats this experiement of yours?</p>
<p>As you probably know UC Merced was designed to attract central valley students. That didn't go too well because many would choose an older/better school 400 miles away over UC Merced. I was curious to know if Merced might have offered encouragement to other UCs to offer any valley student on the edge this program.</p>
<p>I've been offered it. 2 years at Merced, but guarenteed to UCSD instead of Cal or UCLA. I might consider it, but Merced's too new to know what it's really good for. Only positive factors I see at Merced is its cleaniness and short walking distance from class to dorm. Other than that, it sucks being in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>I got one for Irvine and I live in the central valley. I'm probably not going to do it. I didn't work this hard in school to go to UC Merced.</p>
<p>I got one for Cal, maybe I will see you at ucm :-p</p>
<p>I got the same offer frm cal and ucla. I don't know wht to do.</p>
<p>I also got into uci,ucd,ucsb and nyu. i like ucla because it's near my home but</p>
<p>it it worth going to a school in the middle of farms.</p>
<p>yeap same here crazed, but the campus at nyu is the worst college campus I can think of (ummm its just a bunched of cramped city blocks>?) but i got into uci,ucd,ucsb...but each one is not a match for me in a different way (irvine=commuter school,ucd=just as many farms as merced,ucsb=ummm i dont want to party everyday...)</p>
<p>"yeap same here crazed, but the campus at nyu is the worst college campus I can think of (ummm its just a bunched of cramped city blocks>?) but i got into uci,ucd,ucsb...but each one is not a match for me in a different way (irvine=commuter school,ucd=just as many farms as merced,ucsb=ummm i dont want to party everyday...)"
Wow, if it wasn't for the NYU thing I'm in exactly the same boat</p>