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BigB_85: UCSF is a med school. =p
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<p>That's like... half true. It also has nursing, dentistry, and a good number of PhD programs in the sciences.</p>
<p>^^ yes, I was wary of saying "med school" since it isn't just that, but kept it as "med school" for simplicity.</p>
<p>Good job, UCLAri, you made it difficult anyway. =p</p>
<p>I try. I try so damn hard. :D</p>
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overall, the State budgeting process doesn't work that way. The smaller UCs cannt keep smaller classes for long, or their budget will be cut. Primarilly, the $$ go with the students.
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<p>Yes and no. I don't know how the budgeting works, but UCR has an aggressive growth plan which is why their admission rates are so high. For class size being smaller, i doubt that, but i agree with the fact that professors are more accessible. I don't even to to UCR and i was easily able to contact the professors and talk to a few with minimal effort, in which my minimal effort included a quick email and a half mile or so walk from my girlfriends house.</p>
<p>^^ you can do the same at UCLA and Berkeley. I've emailed professors at Berkeley and gotten very nice responses. =D</p>
<p>and have you actually met and have them take an hour out of their time for your questions on the same day as your email?</p>
<p>My professors at UCLA would do that for me all the time.</p>
<p>"and have you actually met and have them take an hour out of their time for your questions on the same day as your email?"</p>
<p>Considering that I wouldn't be able to get to them (as I live 400 miles away), no, that hasn't happened. But they did take the time to write long, thought-out responses to my questions, and we had ongoing correspondence for a while.</p>
<p>I realize this thread has been dead for a long time, but I feel like it is an interesting discussion that is worth reviving.</p>
<p>Saw a lot of talk in this thread about the varying difficulty between UC schools. I spent my first two years at UC Riverside (engineering) and am now transferring to UCLA. </p>
<p>Granted, I don’t have a comparison with UCLA yet, but UCR classes can be EXTREMELY tough. Many of my major courses required several hours of work per day. In one particular quarter, I was studying all day, every day, and I hated my life because of it, haha. And I don’t think of myself as stupid. My SAT score was a 2260, which is well above the average at UCR. In many of my computer science courses, more than half the class failed. Like, ‘F’ or worse failing. When I took a comparable class at a community college to what I had taken at UC Riverside, I found the workload to be about 1/7th what it was at UCR. However, I admit that in many classes (math and physics), students are helped significantly by the curves. </p>
<p>Notice that the average GPA’s are very low at UCR: [UC</a> Riverside](<a href=“http://www.gradeinflation.com/UCriverside.html]UC”>http://www.gradeinflation.com/UCriverside.html) From my experience, this implies that the classes are still very hard, but the lower average caliber of the students means that many of them fail.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of any UC school just because it’s less prestigious. The real difference between a prestigious UC and a less prestigious UC is peer quality. I met many smart, motivated people at UCR, but I imagine the concentration of them will be higher at UCLA.</p>