<p>I saw a thread like this on the Davis forum so I'm starting one here</p>
<p>Irvine</p>
<p>meh</p>
<p>I only applied to the three schools that i could see myself at: UCSC, University of San Diego, and my local CSU. I obviously chose UCSC. Prestige wasn’t a huge deal for me. I had the grades to get into cal and ucla, but those schools didn’t appeal to me.</p>
<p>Davis only.</p>
<p>None. UCSC was my backup choice if I didn’t get into UCB. After some more intense research on UCSC, I’m actually really glad about how my prospective college career turned out.</p>
<p>Illinois. Damn the hard decision. it has the top engineering i want but too expensive for out-state. Is UCSC engineering good or not? special like EE or CompE</p>
<p>@lanceluo0927 which Illinois school? I’ve heard its good for the most part but I don’t know how strong it is compared to their other programs. Sorry :/.</p>
<p>i was almost positive i wanted to go to uconn. but i guess once i thought about the opportunity given to me, to leave for california, move across the country, i decided on ucsc. not to mention i’m completely in love with the atmosphere out there.
the only thing i hope i don’t dislike about ucsc is the lack of the sports pride i would have gotten at uconn. oh well, i’m very excited about my decision.</p>
<p>lance, UCSC engineering is going to be perfectly fine. I can’t speak for everyone, but I kinda envied the UCSC engineers, I wish I had the prerequisites necessary to do eng at UCSC, because while their arts and humanities are kinda lame, in my opinion, the science and engineering have a great rep at UCSC.</p>
<p>(which is why I’m going to be in their Math program this year, teehee)</p>
<p>@GAHHHH: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign(EE Major),their engineering program is like top 3 in the nation.</p>
<p>The reason UCSC might be good at engineering is that it is really close to silicon valley, might have great intern opportunities</p>
<p>UCLA, oh my god that was really tough, I had my mouse over “accept” for about 35 minutes…</p>
<p>@videodima I will tell my D that. Her peers illogically believe you must accept from which ever UC had the tightest acceptance rates. Curious about what stood out for you at UCSC. As a mom I loved the college set-up, plus the overall sense that UCSC felt educating each student to think about their individual place in the world tied into questions about responsibility.</p>
<p>@maenidmom</p>
<p>UCSC stood out because 1, I loved the environment. But what many people overlook are the professors themselves. in UCLA they are all in suits and are super serious about impressing everyone that sees them, in UCSC they focus more on the actual schoolwork, than trying to flaunt how good their schoolwork is. I also really like the housing system, you can choose what kind of people to be around.</p>
<p>picking it over UCLA was tough, but I talked to A LOT of alumni, and everyone said that they did not regret going there. Me personally, I want to go to Stanford for graduate school, and I know 4 people personally(I’m sure there are several more)from the UCSC class of 2009, that got into Stanford.</p>
<p>In reality, this school is still a UC, so if your willing to the put the work in, you will be able to go anywhere you want, be it a head position of a company or Stanford grad school.</p>
<p>U of Oregon
U CO at Boulder
Northeastern U
Boston U
U of British Columbia (Vancouver)
UC Santa Barbara</p>
<p>Im sure we all made the right decision. I forgot to put the ones I turned down: NYU (so expensive), UCSB, UC Davis, Northeastern, UC Irvine, Lewis&Clark, Cal Poly SLO</p>
<p>UCLA, UCD, and UCM. When I visited during spring spotlight, I fell in love with the school.</p>
<p>UCR, UCSB, UCSD, St. John’s, Suffolk, CSU La, CSU San Marcos, Fresno State, Whittier</p>
<p>Got best package at UCSC and had greatest overall feel :)</p>
<p>I’m glad to see people so happy about this, tough I don’t know if I should feel good about myself =</p>
<p>being denied to Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley, USC, Notre Dame, and Northwestern kinda hit me hard, the only school i was accepted to was UCSC.</p>
<p>My first choice was Davis!!! but I didn’t get in! sadly lolol</p>
<p>I turned down UCSD and UCR for UCSC :)</p>
<p>UCSC was like…the best college I ever visited (I really liked Davis equally, though)… UCSC was like… so beautiful… had the best vibes… and the students looked HAPPY! And i have about 10 friends who are about to graduate who LOVED it and don’t want to leave</p>