<p>I was accepted to both UCLA and UCI. I am a Bio Major. The issue is that UCI offered me a fantastic package, including their Campuswide Honors Program and a Regents Scholarship worth over $10,000 per year. UCLA hasn't offered anything. I realize UCLA is a higher rated school, but I would like people's feedback on this decision. What would you do?</p>
<p>Are you pre-med? You should email the honors office and ask if they can provide success rates of their bio majors that applied to med school.</p>
<p>I'm biased, but I'd take the money and CHP at UCI. You'll get a great education and you'll have money left over when you have to pay for Harvard Medical School for the fall of 2009.</p>
<p>Cappi20-</p>
<p>You can read my post on the UCLA board. Feel free to ask more questions if you've got them and I'll answer them for you. I am an alumnus of UCI and the CHP as well as a former Regents' Scholar.</p>
<p>...or UCI Medical School :)</p>
<p>alicantekid: can you tell me what you know about UCI's engineering programs? I'm interested in biomed engineering and am wondering about the caliber of their program.</p>
<p>I'll do a little research for you...I wasn't in engineering so I'm not an expert. The BME major is fairly new and wasn't around when I was an undergrad. I think it's been around for maybe 3-4 years, but it was available as a minor prior to it gaining major status. I know that the engineering school got a $20M donation from Henry Samueli and they renamed the school after him (as they did at UCLA as well). There are a lot of local engineering companies that offer internships to UCI students, but I'm not sure if any of them are biomedical engineering companies.</p>
<p>But I'll poke around and talk to some of my friends and see if they can give me some better info than what I've given you.</p>
<p>ecnerwalc3321-</p>
<p>This is to answer the question you posted on the other board</p>
<p>"once you get invited to be part of the CHP are you already in it? No applicantions or anything? I was invited as an out of stater and wasn't really considering UCI unitl now. So are there a lot of research opportunities with CHP? How are the professors? Are they pretty much friendly? Thanks for responses."</p>
<p>The invitation to Honors Day (held last March 12) was also your invitation to join the CHP. You don't have to do any extra applications or anything like that. All you have to do is to decide to attend UCI and the CHP staff will send you everything you need to know.</p>
<p>There are a lot of research opportunities on campus regardless of if you're in CHP or not. But for CHP, it's a requirement, whereas for the rest of the campus it's not. There are of course going to be good professors and bad ones, but most of the professors are really helpful if they know you're in CHP. But you'll have to approach them, it usually doesn't happen the other way around unless you just have really stellar performances in someone's class and they just HAVE to meet you.</p>
<p>Wow, that's IS a great deal. Are there core classes that CHP'ers have to take to graduate? Also, I wasn't able to attend the CHP day because it happened so fast (like within one week after receiving the letter) and I didn't know too much about it. Do you think I'm still eligible? Thanks for the response!</p>
<p>Yes, you are definitely still eligible. It is not a requirement to attend Honors Experience Day if you want to be in CHP, it's just recommended for the student's benefit because they give out a lot of information on that day. There is a core curriculum that CHP students have to take. During the first year, they take Honors Humanities, and during the second year they take an Honors Social Science course. There is a third year honors course in the sciences, but if you're a science major (Bio, Physical Sciences, or Engineering) you get to waive out of it.</p>