Faults of each UC?

MonsterClam
Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:33:06 +0000

I personally think that UCSD’s campus is very ugly. It’s in a beautiful part of San Diego by the beach, but they’ve made it really rather sprawling and full of roads. I like a nice, compact, walkable campus. I’ve also heard it’s super cut-throat, and know a few people that dropped out for the local CSU just to be around nicer people, though you might get this at all the UC’s, as they’re all pretty rigorous.

When I visited Berkeley I wasn’t a fan of the weather. I went in the summer and it was cold and dreary, and students there said it was almost always like that. And as mentioned above, its in a sort of sketchy part of town.

Davis is kind of in the middle of nowhere. You’ll have to go pretty far to get any kind of city life. Case in point: the only reason I visited was because it was in the middle of a trip across the CA central valley and we needed to break up the monotonous hours of driving on both sides of the campus.

The reputations of UC Riverside and Merced don’t even approach that of the other campuses.

Irvine has a reputation as a commuter school.

Don’t know much about Santa Cruz, and I don’t know of anything particularly bad about UCLA: It’s like a warmer Berkeley that doesn’t have quite the prestige.