<p>Hi, I was accepted to UCI Honors, UCLA, UCSD, and Cal Poly SLO recently and I am debating on which one I should attend. I applied undeclared for the UC's, and Architecture for SLO but I am planning to transfer into the engineering college for Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering. Which college would be the better choice for me?</p>
<p>Architecture at SLO is godly.</p>
<p>i was wondering the same thing… my little sis got into all the uc’s but she got into UCI’s honor program which only 600 people are selected for. </p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone had any opinions about how this would look for graduate schools. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>don’t go to UCI… it’s the ucla reject school…</p>
<p>haha well … is the UCI Honor’s program really that great? Or would it be better for me to just go to UCLA?</p>
<p>go to uci, ucla has a lot of annoying clowns that you wont see in the UCI honors program. trust me on this.</p>
<p>no offense, but I’d never go to Irvine. sorry if I offend some people, don’t mean to…</p>
<p>I really would never consider UCI honors to be on par with UCLA. I wouldn’t even consider it over UCSD. I don’t know why you respect it so deeply. I remember I was accepted into the program and I thought it was nothing more than a gimmick to try to sway me into UCI.</p>
<p>Even with Honors, no one in their right mind would pick UCI over UCLA, for most majors ( no offense to UCI students). If cost is an issue though, I would go with SLO’s program. It’s highly underrated and great for architecture. </p>
<p>If you want to get into mechanical engineering eventually, I personally think SD’s program is (slightly) better than ours. Our Aerospace program is better than theirs, though. So I would decide which route to take before choosing one of your undeclared colleges, if I were you.</p>
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You should call and talk to one of the undergrad counselors in the engineering schools at the UC campuses you are considering. Traditionally tranfering into engineering has been very difficult; most of the slots are reserved for JC transfers. Things may have changed, which is why I suggest you call and ask.</p>
<p>changing majors at SLO is nearly impossible from what I hear…</p>
<p>nobody here knows anything…i went to both schools. trust me on this one, go to UCI.</p>
<p>can you please elaborate on why you say to choose uci please…thank you</p>
<p>long story short, some people drop upper div classes during the last two weeks of the quarter in some majors with no citation on transcript, they do this through the counseling office. this travesty NEVER happens at UCI, it happens in my major at UCLA all the time, and when they do this, you end up having maybe 20% of class which gives out 10% A’s being people who are retaking it. They are far behind UCI in terms of examinations, at UCI you get a digital copy of your exam online after it is graded, it is a much more objective grading system than UCLA, where everything is old school/free response. You will be more in control of your academic performance at UCI because of their very clear cut standards and grading procedures (for science majors especially). At UCLA, a lot of professors start WRITING the exams two days before. UCI has much higher standards with this respect, they really test you on everything by giving multiple choice AND free response instead of giving you a long essay question on only two stupid concepts (which usually occurs at UCLA. most of my exams at UCLA have had very few multiple choice)</p>
<p>just trust me on this one, i tell you from first hand experience, go to UCI. It is a much newer, larger campus, and it is a lot easier to study at UCI, especially if you are premed/in the sciences. At UCLA it is so small that it gets crowded to the point that it will distract you. A lot of BS in general that you dont want to deal with.</p>
<p>honestly dasherwinator? Sounds like you honestly have no idea whats going on? Or someone definitely kept you out of the loop… you sure you ever stepped foot on to UCLA?</p>
<p>@dasherwinator
Seriously? Seriously? If you think you’re making UCI look good, you’re not. Rather, you’re highlighting the differences between a prestigious university and a rather average one. </p>
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I have never seen this happen before. What are you majoring in? I will admit there are some students who like to retake courses (that they could very well have passed the first time) but A’s shouldn’t be that difficult if you’re talented. </p>
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Here’s a reality check. The UCI examinations are insufficient. Should a Calculus exam have multiple choice? A Physics exam? All you’ve shown us is that UCI doesn’t really teach students. Unless you actually solve an equation and write out problems, you really aren’t proving you know how to do anything. It appears you don’t like free response merely because it’s difficult. But, I hate to break it to you, we’re not in high school. At the university level, multiple choice should be used as sparingly as possible.</p>
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Because each individual professor writes the test, it is wrong to generalize every UCLA exam as being uncomprehensive and of only “two stupid concepts”. As a matter of fact, I’ve had many bad exams but not once has this occurred. </p>
<p>Dasher, you sound like a bitter student who flunked out of UCLA. Your major qualms with the university seems to be that its tests are difficult and professors try to teach.</p>
<p>From my experience with college honors programs they’re pretty close to pointless. Just a few perks. Don’t even let that weigh your decision slightly.</p>
<p>To sentiment: The tests are actually EASIER than UCI exams, because in free response you can actually bs your way through it. And as for your other garbage, I am a 3.9 student. I am superior to you, and I know more about both schools than you do, as I attended them and experienced them first hand. UCLA and UCI are not “prestigious” schools, they are simply GOOD schools. Prestige comes with hundreds of years of name and power family associations. Neither UCLA nor UCI are powerhouses in this sense, most politicians and bankerss worth a damn go to ivies. Back off, this is not your territory. YOU are the one that sounds bitter, by making up stupid sh1t i didnt say. Not ONCE did i talk about difficulty in that post, but now I will tell you that so far my experience has been UCLA is the easier school, but for the wrong reasons (bad tests).</p>
<p>And if it means anything, I am in the most competitive major at UCLA (think of the major with the highest concentration of premeds), and you don’t see me complaining about competition =)</p>
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If you can make 4=5, sure. :rolleyes: Otherwise, you’re in the humanities.</p>
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An ad hominem. :rolleyes:</p>
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That is untrue. John Edwards went to UNC, Dick Cheney went to the University of Wyoming, god knows where Schwarzenegger went… You clearly have no idea what you’re talking.</p>
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So you’re threatening me on the internet? Are we in a drug war? </p>
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I am bitter because you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about and making wrongful generalizations when, you yourself, clearly know the quality of a course at UCLA can fluctuate. I have faith in the good majority of UCLA professors. </p>
<p>You know that? I don’t believe for a second you have a 3.9 GPA. From your first post on this thread, the only basis of your arguments have been ‘Everyone here is stupid! I know better than everyone else!’ When someone refutes your argument with experience and skeptical inquiry, once again you resort to ‘I have a 3.9 GPA and I know better than you!’ You sir, are a charlatan by the utmost nature.</p>