<p>I've been talking to some adcom members from CSU Fullerton, UCR and a few other UC's and when I mentioned that I was interested in living in the dorms, they immediately began to try to encourage me to live in one of the apartments off-campus. When I brought up the subject of dorms again, they adamantly said that as a transfer, I should be looking elsewhere.</p>
<p>I respect the opinions of all, but I wonder why they acted the way that they did when I said that I'd like to live in the dorms.
Why would it matter if I wanted to live in the dorms, being a transfer anyway?</p>
<p>Can someone please tell me if this has happened to them? Did they finally leave you alone and let you go about your merry little dorm dwelling way? Or did they not let up with the pushing for you to pursue off campus housing?</p>
<p>yeah pretty weird... Maybe it's b/c some transfers are of the drinking age and adcoms are afraid they will have a bad influence on the younger students...</p>
<p>The people who i talked that dorm all say they get discracted and have a hard time focusing on their studies... I think transfer students are more immune to that...</p>
<p>UCSD doesn't provide any housing at all for transfers... i guess thats why they are the school of socially dead...</p>
<p>UCSD as the school of socially dead? My dear friend who attends UCSD says that there are parties everywhere and most of the people there are the white OC type girls that you see on TV. I live in SoCal so i know how the white conceited OC b*itches are like, but I believe my friend when she said that the parties are wild and a lot of people do drugs.</p>
<p>Yeah aznhyboi87 that's odd too. I have a few friends that go there. They all say UCSD is overhyped with the whole beach/party school theme. They say no one really does anything remotely "crazy" at UCSD. The people that do drugs...they say do it in peace. I am sure people go down to TJ every weekend or head to San Diego State to party...but as far as the party/social scene ON CAMPUS...my friends say it's not like crazy as everyone thinks. Then again, it could be just them...but this is what I heard.</p>
<p>I don't know about the other schools, but at Fullerton it's merely a matter of space. They don't really have any, and so getting a dorm as a transfer would be difficult (my out-of-state cousin is entering an equally-impacted CSULB as a freshman and didnt even get a dorm). Fullerton is one of the more impacted Cal States, and there's a serious shortage of dorms.
Also, by junior year the vast majority of students live off campus. So this probably had something to do with their discouraging you. I think its less about them caring why you would want to be in a dorm, and more about the space issue and the culture of the campus (which is that of a commuter school).</p>
<p>I guess different people hang out with different social groups and the more wild students tend to expose their parties and try to make it sound very big while the more conservative students say its nothing because they don't party as much?</p>
<p>UHHHH...who thinks UCSD has a party scene?? hah. </p>
<p>As someone from San Diego, I can tell you that UCSD is CERTAINLY NOT known as a party school. I think we all know that that distinction belongs to SDSU. UCSD is known for its high nerd/dork population.</p>
<p>My thoughts are in line with <strong>allie</strong>'s: it's probably about space.</p>
<p>Transfer students are "more" capable of acquiring off-campus housing than freshmen are, if only because they're older and already likely have some sort of credit. If the office can officially encourage anyone to look for housing elsewhere, it'd be any entering "mature" student (ie, a not-freshman, not-continuing student such as a transfer).</p>
<p>Im going to visit my friend at UCSD when school starts so I'll see first hand if UCSD is a party school or not. This is kind of depressing seeing how you guys all say its boring though. I hope it's not like that because i'm planning to have a lot of fun</p>
<p>I've been there and know many students there. Like any college--there are many students who party. If you have to make generalizations though, it is a nerd commuter school.</p>