<p>How much does it cost to go to uci without living there? When I applied I put live off campus instead of live with parents or live on campus. Then when I got my financial aid package it said 14,000 something for housing, food, etc. I want to commute from LA (yea I know its crazy) because I do not want to loan over 8,000 dollars, so people who commute how much was the total tuiton cost?</p>
<p>Well tuition itself should come up to around $10,000 give or take a couple hundred…</p>
<p>and if you total up books + gas + whatever else, it should total to around $14,000, for the year. Probably want an opinion from someone else who has commuted, but it sounds about right for me…</p>
<p>But good luck with commuting from LA, you will definitely go through some hard times… especially if you have 8 AM classes, which is a high possibility.</p>
<p>8,000 includes food cost and living ~ </p>
<p>so minus 2400 which is about the average food budget in a year your saving 5600</p>
<p>East L.A to UCI is 46~ miles each way so about 92 miles a day which is about 2 hours worth of driving a day if not more considering 60 of those miles are on the 5 which is HORRIBLE for traffic</p>
<p>92 miles a day is about 5 gallons a day(20 mpg car) x 16 days a month x 9 months x 3 dollars a gallon</p>
<p>which is about~ 2160 dollars a year on gas alone without straying from your route at all. </p>
<p>5600 saving -2160 is 3440 dollars</p>
<p>minus your social life, minus 8 am classes </p>
<p>you gotta figure if ~4000 dollars is worth your sanity per year</p>
<p>I talked to a few who commute from koreatown area to uci and told me it takes anywhere from 40 mins to 1 hr 30 mins and heard when there is traffic they want to end their lives loll
but I really do not want to loan 8000 plus dollars every year til I graduate.
I plan on a mixture of carpool, driving my car, and metrolink but will not take metrolink if it takes longer then 2 hours, so does anyone have experience with taking metrolink to uci from los angeles?</p>
<p>Also, If I ultimately decide to commute I call and tell them to remove the extra 14,000 for housing, food, etc?</p>
<p>Also your Aid amount will go down as well since you no longer require the extra from living on campus.</p>
<p>your aid will change also so ask first. </p>
<p>Metrolink is 250 bucks~ ish for a monthly pass and it’s probably cheaper to buy that then buy daily passes on days you want to.</p>
<p>I looked up the transit planner on google maps </p>
<p>you start at union and take the pacific surfliner train to the 59 bus which takes you to irvine and that takes alittle over 2 hours if you leave at 6:30 in the morning</p>
<p>It’s a tough 4 years to commute if you do i wish you the best of luck</p>
<p>Honestly, I would avoid commuting by car at all costs (not sure if this is even an option for you). Sitting in traffic for hours each day sounds like a nightmare. Imagine having to stress out about getting to UCI for your 8am final. This could likely happen multiple times. </p>
<p>Besides, classes are like 15% of the experience at Irvine. If you aren’t going to spend a significant amount of time meeting people, being in clubs, and going to events, then you might as well just go to a community college for two years and transfer- it will definitely save you a ton of money (and hassle due to traffic).</p>
<p>I am a transfer student lol </p>
<p>peterr86 thanks a lot buddy for looking up all of that for me, I guess metrolink is out of the question if I’m gonna have to wake up at 6am</p>
<p>according to mapquest from where i live I take 10east, 110 south, then 405 south
hopefully if I decide to commute I have no 8am classes</p>
<p>peterr86 it seems like you are already attending uci so I want to ask you something.
At my community college chemistry 101 and chemistry 102 is about 5 classes at uci! according to assist.org chem 101 and 102 at uci is chem 1a 1b 1lb 1c and 1lc…crazy
does this mean in order to finish what is chem 101 and 102, which is two semesters at my community I need to take these classes for 5 quarters?!</p>
<p>No i don’t think so IIRC looking at assist</p>
<p>Chemistry 101/Chemistry 102 makes up for 1a/1la which is the lecture/lab portion of that class</p>
<p>It’s broken down into 3 quarters of lecture/lab so one school year which is what two semester is at C.C and for ochem it’s the same structure. So if a UCI student takes that entire block it’s 1 year of ochem/chem and for C.C you also have one year of classes fall/spring</p>