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04-30-2007, 10:19 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: BAy, CA
Posts: 81
| Colleges passed on to attend UCI
so...
in UCD posts, they have this thread asking which colleges did people pick UCD over......I just got curious about which college choices are people dropping for UCI....
I'm pickin UCI over UCD, Cal Poly SLO, UCR, San jose state...for comp science
wat abt u guys?? | 
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04-30-2007, 10:28 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Sunny California
Posts: 1,030
| uc davis, ucsb are the two main ones. | |
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04-30-2007, 10:33 PM
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#3 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 52
| Daughter not going to UCSD,UCD,Cal Poly SLO,USD,Santa Clara (All BIO), USF Nursing. Nursing Science it is for UCI. | |
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04-30-2007, 10:40 PM
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#4 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 36
| Cal Poly SLO | |
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04-30-2007, 10:44 PM
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#5 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: University of California, Irvine
Posts: 579
| uci over la, ucsd, usc, berkeley | |
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04-30-2007, 11:01 PM
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#6 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 36
| Shoefactory:
Why?
What are you studying?
and can I have you Berkeley or LA spot? | |
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04-30-2007, 11:12 PM
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#7 | | New Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 12
| yeah I'm curious why too! Why uci over ucla or ucb?? | |
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04-30-2007, 11:36 PM
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#8 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 107
| over ucd, cal poly slo, and sjsu for computer science. (loved the uci campus while on tour) | |
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05-01-2007, 12:20 AM
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#9 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: University of California, Irvine
Posts: 579
| i got a scholarship.
Here ill just paste my pro and con note from facebook.
"I got into ucla, uci, cal, and ucsd. I don't want to go to cal and sd though so its down to uci.
I'll list pros and cons and feel free to comment. Oh yeah, and ill be a biomed engineering major for uci and a biochem major for ucla. I'll be premed for both.
UCLA
+ prestige
+ might be more preparing for mcat
+ more people i can relate to
- frikin small dorms
- hard to get high gpa
- hard to get research positions
- hard to get recommendations
UCI
+ 8.5k scholarship guaranteed for 4 years
+ honors program (which includes honors dorm, priority registration, and a "class" that sets you up for research)
+ 4.0 here i come
+ more relaxing, more time
+ 3.5x larger campus than ucla (larger dorms too)
+ easier to get recs
+ easier to get research (they have a lot of programs, esp for honors kids)
+ more time to study for mcat
- less prestige
- too easy?"
studying bio, switching to BME | |
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05-01-2007, 01:25 AM
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#10 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 41
| is UCI really that easy?^^^ | |
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05-01-2007, 01:40 AM
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#11 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 297
| i might go to uci so maybe i'll see u all there! | |
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05-01-2007, 02:25 AM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: UC IRVINE, CA! =]
Posts: 1,339
| haha, ShoeFactory you make UCI seem like a breeze. I have to personally agree a bit as a freshman though, haha. A lot of freshman tend to make mistakes or not care (which is completely normal in every other school). I do put a lot of work to keep my GPA as high as possible. I was able to almost pull off a 3.5 (I got a 3.49 =[ ) on 18 units last quarter but it was quite some work since I'm still learning how to study! Well...it was actually because of stupid writing. I hate trusting TAs to grade your essays. They vary too much. | |
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05-01-2007, 02:52 AM
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#13 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: University of California, Irvine
Posts: 579
| Its not a breeze, but itll be easier than LA and cal.
I just have to hope i get an A in writing and all the sciences will be fine. | |
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05-01-2007, 03:07 AM
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#14 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 422
| I passed over:
UC: Riverside
UC: Merced
UC: Santa Cruz
UC: Santa Barbara
UC: Davis | |
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05-01-2007, 03:23 AM
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#15 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: UC Irvine
Posts: 518
| Cal Poly SLO, University of San Diego, UC Riverside, Sonoma State | |
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