<p>DA,</p>
<p>You disagree with me just to disagree. You visit a campus once and you are an authority...wow..that's amazing.</p>
<p>Sadly, you aren't really disagreeing with me, you are disagreeing with students that have been there as students or lived in that area for years. I am just giving a voice to those that have not responded.</p>
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This school is borderline of an absolute joke. Internet service provided by housing is beyond crap. The people have the same kind of manners as animals do. I cant recall how many times I've been woken up at 4am by hooting and holering by these inconsiderate animals.</p>
<p>If you are expecting to head to an education institute to work hard and better yourself, not for money, but because of your passion for the subject, then UCR is not for you. If you have that kind of motivation, then avoid UCR, because it will crush every last bit of any passion that you might have. The people, the environment (can anyone say stinking ****hole right next to a freeway?), the spirit, this school lacks everything except for a few good professors here and there.
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The biomed UCR/UCLA program is a complete scam!! Do not let this happen to you as it to me! This whole deal is about tricking bright student into going into this sorry excuse of a university, and treat you all like crap. The program used to limit only so many people into the biomed major, and only people who were admitted to the major were able to apply to their 7 year med school deal with ucla. Trust me, 24 is not a number you want to gamble your college education over with. They got greedy this time. Now they allow everyone to apply to the 7 year program, and dumped the whole biomed major. This just makes your chance of getting in even less. The education at ucr sucks, professors there are too busy with their research than the quality of your education. I had many experiences in which professors would allow their office hours ran completely by the TAs becuase they just don't care. The so call biomed office is like a fast food drive through. They don't have real offices where people walk in to talk to advisers. They so call "advisers" sit on a chair all day giving you "over the counter advise" and gives you no answers to your questions in which you don't already know. You just go there to pick up your pin number, and they tell you is to have a good day. There is no one to talk to when you need advise becuase no one in ucr care enough to give you any good advise. Non of them are paid enough to do a good job, so why bother. Good luck trying to get them from upper classmates becuase everyone is too competitive to give you any. All people do there is count the number of people left in the program as they go by each day. Just think about it, 24 spots out of thousands. Don't waste your life in this dump. Even if you didn't get into a UC, just go to a cal state. Trust me, if it is too good to be true, it probably is. Med schools do look at which college you go to. UCR is definitely not what you want to put on your application, and no, it is not better than a cal state. I don't know about other majors, but if you want to be doctor, don't go there.
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this university is a lame crummy "the heavens opened up and a pile of poop was excreted in the inland empire and UCR formed" type place. The only way I can logically justify the good comments on this place come from undergrads that are simpleminded people in a laughable major here like business or that the undergrads are sleazy, immoral, Bubbalike frat guys or skanky sorority girls who drank so much alcohol their brain cells are comatose.This place has truly ripped me off of my money. Comin to look back on it, I dont think Id go here even if the education was free.
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acquiring knowledge at ucr is solely for practical job application purposes and not for higher learning and personal intellectual growth. averages on midterms and finals are laughable. it is a science and business centric school and the art department has a miniscule presence on campus. arts in general. don't expect to find intellectually daring minds here. ucr is a college designed with the sole intent of destroying all your ideals regarding college. It's not a magical land of mature people, it's a fantasy land where perpetual high school kids live independently from their parents for four years. It's inhabited with a mixed batch of pituitary cases and shallow cellphone brandishing moroons who have no interest in learning. The eclectic interest of the typical student at UCR lies in the following activities: never attending classes, failing nearly everything, drinking themselves retarded, gaining base knowledge on how to unreflectively acquire a decent paying job in order to attain some materialistic goal bred from a californian upbringing, and if they get lucky, turning impressionable freshman girls into emotional wrecks.
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<p>I could list other quotes, even fairly positive ones, but they are in the minority. Face it, UCR is a CSU in UC clothing.</p>