<p>How close are you to the area, amsstory? A trip to Sac costs us $60 in gas alone. My wife made the trip yesterday for a job interview and scoped out some neighborhoods. $#!% is getting real!</p>
<p>If we do manage to close on a house that’s bigger than a matchbox, PARTY TIME. BYOB.</p>
<p>I’m in the East Bay, so, um about an hour and a half from Sacramento and about an hour and ten minutes from Davis. The SO’s parents live in Dixon. They have a second house in Dixon that is unoccupied and they told us we could live there for awhile. We plan on living there until September when school starts to save up some money, then we will probably rent a two bedroom apt. in Davis or Sac if all the decent apartments are taken in Davis by the time we have the money to put down a deposit…</p>
<p>What neighborhoods did your wife like in the Sac area? </p>
<p>" If we do manage to close on a house that’s bigger than a matchbox, PARTY TIME. BYOB." - lol yeah that would be pretty awesome!</p>
<p>She was driving around looking at some listings in the general area of North Sac and Hagginwood. Said that there was a lot of variation from street to street even within neighborhoods, but she really liked the area around Redwood Park and some parts of Hagginwood and Noralto. Not the most convenient areas for my commute, but very close to where her interview was, and she was squeezing the whole thing into a day trip.</p>
<p>I read in another thread that your wife has plans for grad school. Is she going to go to UCD as well? My SO also has plans for grad school, and will probably go to UCD or do an online applied math program through the University of Washington. </p>
<p>And yeah, North Sac to Davis sounds like a pretty long commute. How are you planning on getting to UCD? Driving or taking public transportation? I’m considering using Amtrack if I end up moving to Sac after the end of the summer, but honestly, I really want to spend very little money on transportation…</p>
<p>Unfortunately, neither UCD nor Sac State have programs that interest her, so we’re going to be moving again when it’s her turn to be put through school.</p>
<p>She’s almost definitely going to need the car for work and we can’t afford a second one, so I’m going to be biking, taking the bus, or finding a carpool. I’m not sure I could bike all the way unless we lived in West Sac, but I might end up biking to the Yolobus or the med shuttle.</p>
<p>So, I checked my UCD email today and I got an offer for housing, but I put on my FAFSA that I will be living off campus and my financial aid package reflects that. What’s going on? Does everyone get this offer?</p>
<p>I did as well. I think you should just follow the directions and email them letting you know you’re not interested.</p>
<p>Yeah, I got the email too. Since they guarantee housing, it makes sense that they would put everyone on the list even if they indicate off-campus plans. People change their minds all the time about that sort of thing and they’ll still want their guaranteed housing.</p>
<p>I got the email as well, but the application ended up not working for me in the end. I keep getting errors whenever I try to access the application, no matter what browser I use. I sent them an email about it.</p>
<p>About to sign up for orientation…turns out my sister has to come with me since the only car available to drive that week is her stick shift civic, ughhhh. there goes an extra $85 lol. oh well</p>
<p>Umm I’m probably ahead of myself but when do we get to register. I will not be attending orientation due to me going to summer school. I just want to stay on top of things.</p>
<p>You get to register at the orientation. If you can’t make it, you need to let them know in the orientation sign up place. Theres a spot that says “cannot attend orientation” or something like that. Then they’ll give you some stuff to do and you will get to register after it’s done on a certain day and time I’m guessing.</p>
<p>@THATguy90:</p>
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<p>My parents are concerned that If I end up going to UCLA, I will end up partying and not do my studies. They think that UCLA is much as a party school as UCSB or Chico State.</p>
<p>They say that UC Davis is not a party school where people just study all day and hang out in coffee shops or in the library, similar to UCSD or brigham young university.</p>
<p>They told me this because I have a cousin at my dads side who went far for college, to UCSB as a 22 year old and dropped out when he was 29 years old. He didnt know what to do in life and ended up being a dj in SB. Now, at 30, he is back home with parents trying to figure out what to do with his life. They are worried that if I go to UCLA, they think that I will end up like my cousin.</p>
<p>I only live 40 minutes from UC Davis. </p>
<p>For financial aid, I am getting so much more in UCLA (21k) than Davis (14k)</p>
<p>Distance is not a factor but their concern is that I will loose the motivation to study once I am at UCLA. They say that If I am at UC Davis, they can check on me to see if I am studying or not.</p>
<p>I currently have a 3.8 + GPA, involved in numerous organizations in and out of my community college. My parents are proud of me doing all of these activities and maintaining a high academic record. </p>
<p>What are your thoughts on this? Thank you.</p>
<p>Can you provide more details about the financial aid situation? It would help to know your housing plans at both campuses, the cost of attendance for each aid package, and the breakdown of your aid into loans, gift aid, and work study.</p>
<p>As far as “party schools” go, pretty much every large school has a ton of parties. Even schools with reputations as “party schools” have tons of dedicated students who don’t party too much, or at all, and you’d be hard-pressed to find any school regardless of reputation that doesn’t have multiple groups of students who spend a ton of time partying. Neither UCLA nor Davis is a dry campus, and both have an enormous student body, so in either situation you’re going to have plenty of opportunities to party and to study. The choice will be yours.</p>
<p>Though your parents obviously want what’s best for you, and it is an advantage to have the support of family close-by, you need to be taking care of business without them “checking up” on you to make sure you study. This applies even if you’re at Davis. You’re in charge of your studies, and if they try to take charge of your schedule or enforce your behavior, they will only be giving you bad habits later on when you didn’t learn how to do it on your own. </p>
<p>Finally: You are not your cousin. For every person who drops out of UCLA and moves back in with their parents, there are far more people who graduate and go on to do impressive things with their lives. What happened to your cousin has absolutely nothing to do with you. Perhaps your parents should use all the successful students as models, since there are more of them, and reassure themselves that you are likely to share their experience, rather than your cousin’s.</p>
<p>what would be better? a double occupancy room or a single? <a href=“http://www.housing.ucdavis.edu/__pdf/Shared/2011%20transfers_rh_flyer.pdf[/url]”>http://www.housing.ucdavis.edu/__pdf/Shared/2011%20transfers_rh_flyer.pdf</a></p>
<p>according to davis wiki, leach hall is going to be demolished next year…I’m iffy about living there because of that lol.</p>
<p>I think living on campus is way too expensive. For around 11k, you can probably find a place to live off campus for two years, unlike living on campus for 3 quarters.</p>
<p>^ true, the expense is more than apartments. so do you definitely plan on living @ the ramble? my parents want me to check out the dorms and the ramble first before deciding. i’m visiting friday, so i’ll make up my mind then.</p>
<p>definitively not living at the ramble lol. way too expensive & full of rowdy people, from what i see on the fb page. I found some random people to live with on the fb group and we’re looking at a 4bedroom apt about 3 miles away from campus. it’s about 460 per person + utilities. I’m gonna check it out on friday ^^</p>
<p>Alright people, here’s the deal. I’ve threatened to jazzercise on top of the tables in green stretch pants during lunch on the Monday, June 27 orientation day unless people in the UCD Facebook app suggest some awesome things for transfer orientation group 5 to do together at lunch. Please go sign up for transfer group 5, join the facebook group, and save me and everybody else from this unspeakable Lovecraftian horror. THIS IS SERIOUS GUYS.</p>