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05-07-2005, 09:22 AM
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#31 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Champaign, IL
Posts: 2,067
| ^^^ hahahah yeah hickville i guess | 
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05-15-2005, 06:58 PM
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#32 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Northern California
Posts: 391
| If UCM had a grad school/med school, i'd attend after graduating from Berkeley.
It wont be a top UC anytime soon; UCSD took 30 years before it went to Tier 1 and back then, there weren't any budget problems.
However, UCM will be top tier if UCLA and Berkeley decide to do the right thing and privatize, so more funds could be allocated to the lower UC's. The higher UC's would be better off as well, since both have the capability of raising huge amounts of money. | |
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10-09-2005, 05:02 PM
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#33 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Nevada
Posts: 676
| I would consider UCM if UCLA rejected me...... I want to become a high school teacher or prinicipal ..... | |
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04-03-2006, 12:24 AM
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#34 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 7
| i think the biggest factor in choosing merced over other schools is how much of it will be completed before september. | |
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04-08-2006, 02:02 PM
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#35 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Piedmont, CA
Posts: 126
| Anyone attend the April orientations (last weekend and this weekend)?
I'm wondering what's on the "drawing board" to be completed within the next year - and whether that's discussed at all in orientation. | |
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04-09-2006, 06:52 PM
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#36 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 7
| i think its a really good school and after looking at other schools, i'm starting to like the "everything about a big school" in a small school type of setting. so its one of my top three! | |
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04-21-2006, 01:28 PM
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#37 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 249
| well the reason it wont become a top school soon is because there letting so many students in to try to reach full capacity, they are taking lower gpa's to fill up. | |
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04-22-2006, 10:13 AM
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#38 | | New Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 22
| uc merced
actually, in some of the classes the student ratio is 1 to 11, and the professors do teach, not the TAs. In my personal opinion, the small classes that uc merced offers make learning much more enjoyable and exciting. Whole classes even set up study parties, meetings for breakfast, lunch, dinner ect.
Honestly, the professors at UC Merced are some of the best professors. A great percentage of the professors come to Merced after teaching from Berkeley. A big chunk of the professors have taught at Stanford, and some have even taught at Oxford. Not only that, but they're extremely nice! and very accessible. In fact, a friend of mine is taking independent study and being taught by a professor in the library, and he's getting two credits for it. Another fellow freshmen student, actually a handful of students, are going to be doing research with some of the professors this summer in applied mathematics and some are doing research at the sierra nevada areas (mountains). Its a chance to become recognized! The professors are easy to talk too, I know some of them personally. Its not uncommon for a professor to ask the student to be an aid or do research for him/her.
As for the clubs, UCMerced does offer a great number of clubs, but it has a lot of room for more. Its actually easy to form a club.
And the library is awesome! its huge, its about four stories tall. the library even has its own little private rooms that small study groups could study in. and each one is equipped with classroom size white boards and markers, and about five comfortable chairs and a table! tall cielings too, white, cool (comfortable chilly temp) rooms that the voice kinda echoes in. So if you need to study physics or just to show off your skills in physics on the whiteboard with some friends, for example, i recommend these rooms. Most of the time, one (or more) of these rooms are vacant.
Nice chairs, whiteboards, small classrooms, cool dorms, parties on thursday, clubs, accessible and brilliant professors, and research opportunities.....
a lot of fun and sure makes learning a hell of a lot more enjoyable. | |
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04-22-2006, 10:18 AM
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#39 | | New Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 22
| its a very chilled school.
And also, they do have a cafe down stairs, and a great dining commons....
i would really consider going | |
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04-22-2006, 11:46 AM
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#40 | | Guest | ...i kind of wish I had applied now.. | |
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08-05-2006, 02:33 AM
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#41 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Sunny California
Posts: 1,028
| it sounds awesome, but the problem is, despite it sounding and probably being awesome, there is no current presitge in the merced name. | |
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08-05-2006, 02:49 AM
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#42 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: City of Angels
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08-05-2006, 10:33 PM
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#43 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: cali!
Posts: 306
| it is nice
it's like a small liberal arts college, with there being small class sizes and everything, but with a UC degree in the end. | |
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10-29-2006, 06:02 PM
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#44 | | New Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 6
| It sounds like a great school in my opinion, and it's actually one of my top schools that I'm applying to. | |
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11-27-2006, 12:28 AM
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#45 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, Ca
Posts: 551
| I heard that UCM (and UCR) offer acceptance to anyone, even if you don't apply there, as long as you meet the UC minimum requirements. In fact, according to this book that I got on all the UC's, UCM accepts like 20% of people who don't even have a GPA of 3.0 and above. | |
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