U Washington v. UCSC (Premed)

moomoodog
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 04:14:16 +0000

Got accepted into UW for Public Health, and UCSC for Biology.
I understand that UW has extremely difficult base classes that are “designed” to weed out students? Which are curved around the ~2.5 GPA range.
With that said, UCSC is most likely the better college for a higher GPA - an invaluable factor when it comes to graduate school admissions. However, after visiting UW and UCSC, the lack of resources UCSC has compared to UW is concerning. Easy example to see this would just be visiting UCSC and seeing how packed the libraries are and how lacking the technology they have there is, when compared to UW and the libraries they have over there.
Lastly, there is also the factor of “wasted effort” in high school. The Boy Scout Camp esque campus of UCSC is kind of depressing to me, personally, and I feel like I would be much more disappointed during the duration of my undergraduate years there, when compared to UW’s grandiose campus.
With that said, I would definitely have a smoother time at UCSC GPA wise, where I can be more “happy”, as I wont be nearly as bogged down by the difficulty of the classes as I would be if I went to UW.
Any thoughts and advice is appreciated.
Thanks.
(Hi mom if u are looking at my post)