<p>oookay so, I know that there are LOTS of different discussions about how to rank the different colleges etc.. but i fount almost nothing on this: the location.</p>
<p>I will be a double major Management Science (or Economics, still have to decide) and Cognitive Science. I don't really care about the GEs (well, I will consider them for the rankings of the colleges of course). I'm kinda of shy, but not too much (so, better be a "live" college, but again, doesn't really matter).
The most important thing for the ranking for me is where the colleges building are located (and the distance from the location where the shuttles stop). </p>
<p>So, people from UCSD/that have visited: what the different colleges have around them? (buildings, places to eat, places to have fun, etc.. tell me everything to know) (tell me also if they're on a hill or have plain ground if you know, please)</p>
<p>I know this is has been asked etc.. but I am international and I'm not able to visit the college. </p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>edit: I'd also like to know how are the buildings: if they're new, how structured, how are the rooms. Stress about the bathrooms please (they're kinda a problem for me, so the more I know the better) .. everything that comes on your mind.
right now (it's just a feeling) I like Sixth, Muir and Marshall.</p>
<p>My BFF’s daughter is in Sixth College which she thinks has the worst housing out of all the colleges. She said go with Muir or Marshall instead.</p>
<p>ERC has nice dorm but you have to put up with the GE, that’s what my daughter heard. I agree Sixth is not the best, my oldest did get into sixth but didn’t attend UCSD.</p>
<p>Every college is going to have pros and cons, and at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter which college you choose. I’d probably recommend you choose the college based more on their GEs, rather than the location. After you’re first or second year, you’ll probably be living off campus anyway so the location of your college won’t matter. If you’re an international student, you may even live in I-house so the location of your college will definitely not matter. And there’s no real guarantee that you’ll live in your college, since you could be in overflow housing.</p>
<p>Location-wise, Muir and Marshall are the most centrally located, more or less, though they’re at the top of the hill. But again, the hill doesn’t really matter because you can have classes in any of the six colleges so odds are, you’re going to have to walk up and down the hill regardless. The hill’s a little steeper on the Marshall/ERC side, though, then the Revelle/Muir side. Muir built a new apartment building a couple of years ago so if you want a newer building and are going to live in an on-campus apartment, you could choose Muir. I don’t think Marshall has built new buildings lately. Sixth is kind of out in the boondocks location-wise, but I mean it doesn’t really matter that much. You can look up a map online, if you want to see how far away things are from each college. You can also look up floorplans of the dorms and apartments, and most will probably have pictures.</p>
<p>I’m not really sure what you’re looking for. All of the colleges will be close to some things and far away from others. Every college has their own lecture halls, dining halls, dorms/apartments, and market, but you can go to any of them. You can have classes in any of the lecture halls/classrooms and eat in any of the dining halls. There’s a hill, but you’ll have to walk up and down that hill regardless to get from one side of campus to the other. Students aren’t confined to their colleges, so odds are, at some point, you’ll have a class that’s far away from you. And you might not necessarily live in the college that you are enrolled in anyway. The GEs are probably going to matter more in the long run and you can find all of those online.</p>
<p>If you look at the schedule of classes for all of the cognitive science classes offered in the fall, only two have lectures in the cognitive science building. There are a few more that have some of their discussion classes in the cognitive science building, but discussion sections meet less often than lecture times and are often not mandatory. And you could always choose a different section that meets in a different room if it fits your schedule better.</p>
<p>Also, as a freshman, when you are most likely to be living on campus (unless you’re planning on living on campus for all four years), you’ll likely be taking GE classes outside of cognitive science, so regardless, choosing a college based on where the cognitive science building is probably isn’t the best way to go.</p>
<p>@baktrax Yeah, I’m planning to stay on campus all four years. I see that Muir and Marshall are the two “central” colleges (near most of the things), so I’ll put them first and second. Then Warren and the others.Thanks :)</p>