University of California-San Diego Top Questions

If you are a winter admit, only if this is your dream school, should you accept. UCSD does have some programs that try to give you a sense of belonging, like OASIS. Then there are other programs that the school offers but it is up to you to find it. What I like about the school is that does give a chance for individuality and its not hard to be yourself. I have noticed that people are antisocial and many people make their friends in the dorms. The biggest controversy I think was the "mysterious package" at the medical center. People do complain about people being antisocial, but it's not as bad. Its a good school and fun, if you dorm there.

-i love the weather at UCSD (even though it's super super hot right now, but better sun than rain! :) ) - hmm one thing i'd change would be .. i guess maybe that competition wasn't such a big deal. everyone is always competing in classes and stuff like that. - i think UCSD is the right size, people wise. it's definitely bigger than my high school, but it's nice because you can always meet new people. walking and area wise, it's huge. it takes so long just to get to class, and the campus is so freakin' hilly. - UCSD is definitley not a college town. it takes so long to get places. basically if you don't have a car or know someone with one, you can't get anywhere. - i guess my favorite experience is sungod. everyone's drunk, and it's really nice to see everyone chilling and not stressed about school or anything. - most frequent complaints are that there's no football team and that everyone studies like hell.

The school is ever expanding and making the right strides with the new Price Center expansion. For the most part, UCSD provides an enjoyable experience. I would like to see an athletics program equipped with scholarships- without them, school spirit and athletic revenues will be nonexistent. Sun God reigns as the premiere social event every year, and the admin appears to be giving it a more full experience this year, which is a good thing.

I would try to hype up the school spirit more. There seems to lack school pride. i feel that the only time that almost everyone comes together is during sungod... which only lasts for ONE day. I think there should be more things going on on campus everyday in general. my friends came down here to visit and were surprised about how dead our campus was, even on a regular school day! the only reason people come out is to go to class... there should be more of a reason to come out! I wish we were closer to the city, or engulfed right in the middle of one (that would add more life to the school). I don't like people looking down on UCSD, calling it the University of California of the Socially Dead, although I have to admit, it sometimes feels like I go to such a school. I like the size of the school, but I wish that there was more diversity here (I only see whites and asians)

Sungod is sick. Some school pride, but I don't see the point of it (it's soooo high school).

UCSD is awesome! It's a huge university with a small college feel because it's composed of six smaller colleges with a close community feel. You get the best of both worlds, the resources of a large research university but the feel of a small private college. It's known for its academics but it has plenty of social opportunities. Especially the Sun God festival during spring quarter. It is a friday festival that lasts all day composed of multiple concerts as well as a carnival, it's AWESOME!

There's a lot of great things about UCSD, and all you have to do is go on a campus tour to hear them. I think that from this site though you are looking for the negatives. The biggest negative is that school pride - in a unified sort of way - doesn't seem to be there to me. There is lots of college pride (Shout out for Muir here!!!), but sometimes campus can seem kind of lonely (probably true for any school) The other thing that I disliked was the dorms. My roommates were b!tches, and I ended up moving out after 2 weeks. The staff didn't really seem to care (but I think I was probably biased before I went in, and the dorms aren't really as bad for most people as they were for me - so don't let that scare you away - you can get bad roommates wherever you go to college) AS for the greats - STUART ART COLLECTION - I could care less about art, but some of the things are just AWESOME. I mean how many campuses have a huge bear (like 20 feet tall) made out of giant stones and weigh a couple tons?? How many campuses have SunGod? How many campuses have giraffe catchers, or a library that has been futured as a uFO in attack of the killler tomoatoes?or a snake path? Or a canon view, ocean view, and a forest? How many campuses drop a giant pumpkin (this year 650 pounds) off the tallest building in Muir - or have a watermelon drop off the tallest tower in Revelle? And if you don't know what any of these things are you need to get your little butt down to SD and check it out. Go to the beach while you're here! The answer - NOT MANY, JUST UCSD! So go here, because it's where you ought to be!!!

One of the reasons I love UCSD is because of its six college system. At first, it seemed really stupid and arbitrary, but as I spent more time here, I realized that it is actually really useful to have a six college system because you get to know everyone in your college really well (due to common GE classes, common living and eating areas, etc) which make a 20,000+ undergraduate university a much more personal and welcoming environment. In addition to that, a lot of the administrators within each college oversee only 1/6th of UCSD's students, and therefore they are able to provide each student with much more attention and personal advice than would administrators who have to serve 20,000 + students. I would feel completely detached and alone without UCSD college system, and I'm really glad that I ignored my original discontent with the system in order to come here. I do wish t hat I had spent more time choosing the college I choose (Warren), as each college has a cirriculum centered around different principles. Luckily I do embrace the principles of Warren College (a life in balance, embodied by GE's that force students to focus on non-major areas in which they recieve a virtual "minor" in) and am glad I got lucky when I randomly ordered the colleges at the time I was applying to UCSD.

Best thing about UCSD- The Campus, La Jolla is a great area to have a campus, although it is quite boring and kind of a retirement town, the overriding class, and clean family atmosphere works well with the campus. There are many cute shoppng areas close enought to visit if needed(PB, HIllcrest, and Downtown) La Jolla is a beautiful beach town, not bogged down by tourism, but instead with all the HOT college surfers. Also the campus in general is beautiful, interesting and new architecture pops up at this school every year.

The school is too big measurement wise. I think we can have more people. When i tell other people that I go to UCSD they think that I'm really smart. I think the "collegetown" is not really "college-esk". I think it's just in too much of a rich neighborhood. There isn't enough freedom for college students around this area. We don't even have a frat row which really hurts our social abilities. We also have too many rules and regulations on campus about having events. I'd say that the only good thing we have here is Sun God. It's the only day you realize people can socialize. We should be able to do that more often.