University of California-San Diego Top Questions

The worst thing about Santa Clara University, by far, is the expensive tuition and fees.

Parking is the worst every day. Parking is full from 8:00AM to 4:00PM. Most students have to park off campus and take the shuttle to campus.

The worst thing about this school is that it lacks school spirit and school unity. The campus is created to have six different colleges but it creates an atmosphere of college rivalry. It restricts students into believing that they should have college pride rather than pride for the entire university. It seems that because there are so many pre-medical students, everyone is tense and can never loosen up. These students treat college as if it were a competition to be the best but rather the reality is that people just want to get through college.

The worst thing would have to be the price to to go to college. My tuition just recently went up.

Scial aspects, trying to make friends and meet peopl.

The school is very big which can be daunty at times and inconvienient to get from one end to the other especially when living on the far reaches of the campus.

The drugs

The school is very competitive and teachers/counselors do not really help. You can seek your own help, but still school can be challenging for those who are not serious in their studies. Also, social life is kind of hard to aquire here.

The horrendous lack of financial aid; financial aid for UC's in general are terrible. Someone needs to fix it pretty soon.

The social life is pretty bad and there is no mixing between students. You dont get to meet many people unless you really go out of your way and then you would start rub others the wrong way because most are anti-social. I hardly know anybody in my apartment building and I rarely talked to others in my freshman dorm outside my floor. I feel this really is depressing and you really need to take the initiative to get involved because it is unlikely that you will create a strong network with just friends you meet on campus.