UCSD vs UCSB honors

ucsandiego915
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:56:15 +0000

I had to make the same decision last year. After visiting both campuses, I chose UCSD for a couple of reasons. 1) I too am very social but I don’t think I could handle living in IV. Instead, I joined the greek system here at UCSD and now I party when I want to. 2) More importantly, because UCSD is ranked higher and grad schools are going to take that into consideration. I didn’t want the ‘party school’ reputation of UCSB (whether it is true or not) following me around.

p.s. Forgot to mention that our poli sci department is one of the best! It’s highly ranked.