<p>Hey, neat site. <em>bookmark</em></p>
<p>is muir any good like what GE do they require?
i know revelle is tougher</p>
<p>Those of you who got into UCLA engineering and have been invited to Scholar Day (so presumably are into UCSD), which do you think you'd choose? UCLA or UCSD? Why?</p>
<p>"Also, Warren only has 2 writing courses as opposed to ERC's 3-course Making of the Modern World or whatever."</p>
<p>Actually, MMW is 6 courses.</p>
<p>so which one is easier to graduate?</p>
<p>MMW is 6 courses, BUT only 2 of those include "extensive" writing.</p>
<p>Sorry, my mistake. I'd still prefer getting my butt whooped in 2 Warren writings as opposed to sitting through 6 MMWs, but that's just me.</p>
<p>hiker - I would pick UCLA over UCSD, even though UCSD ranks #3 (or was it #2?) in US News for bioengineering and UCLA isn't on the list. I visited both campuses and didn't like UCSD's atmosphere quite as much.</p>
<p>Yea, Westwood within walking distance is hard to beat. Movies, good food at student prices. I'm liking UCLA's guaranteed housing for 4 years too.</p>
<p>UCLA has guaranteed housing for 4 years? Since when did they do that? I heck of don't remember that... that's really unusual for a public school so large. And I definitely recall that being only a perk for the Regents/Chancellors/whatever scholars. I would think that if they listed that as a perk for scholars, it would be exclusive? I've heard that it's hard to go too far off campus though, because the traffic is so sucky that it's hard to drive, and it's necessary to drive to a lot of the cool places? I don't know. Just hearsay.</p>
<p>I got into both last year and chose UCSD. UCLA was actually my last choice after all of my college visits, behind UCD. Cal and UCSD were competing for the top spot, but UCSD definitely won out (but I had a battle with my parents, who definitely wanted me to stay closer to home at Cal). I actually didn't like UCLA's atmostphere nearly as much as UCSD. I felt much more at home at UCSD and the people I talked to were much more mellow and interesting (maybe I got lucky?). UCLA was just a really bad experience for me... I didn't like the campus because I thought it was really fake-looking, I hated my tour guide, who was boring as hell, the weather was really hot, the campus was really, really, really hilly... ack. To top it all off, they rejected my Regents application :*(</p>
<p>Well, as of last year they were guaranteeing 3 years, but were expecting to start guaranteeing 4...hopefully for the 2011 class.</p>
<p>Your experience really speaks to visiting the schools and picking what feels right to YOU. Sometimes it comes down to gut feel and random things like who gave your tour. Glad it worked out for you.</p>