Why is UCR always looked down upon?

Seiken
Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:10:06 +0000

Yes UCR is 12th on the list of colleges with the “least happy” students. First of all, these rankings, especially this category, have been debated many times due to their obvious subjectivity. Of course there is reason for this ranking, there are people at UCR who are unhappy with their being here; a lot of people wish there was more partying and less studying here. Too bad for them eh? Whatever, they get weeded out.

In the end the PR is just another form of trying to measure something typically unmeasurable, using quantitative methods that they can process and then sell to consumers as a functional tool. Its like the SAT and measuring intelligence, flawed at best.

Oh and to answer why UCR is often looked down upon:
Its because its usually ignorant teenagers who are doing the talking, people who really have no solid basis for their words and are often the victims of their own self-fulfilling-prophecy when it comes to their judgments.

To reiterate this idea, I have NEVER heard a bad thing about UCR from any working adult in my life, people who have had enough life experience to understand the value of an education.