What’s the difference between the 3 San Diego colleges?

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Anonymous wrote:How would UCSD compare with UMD and UVA?

It is the UMBC / George Mason of California.

That said, CA is so so different from the dmv. You have the whole JC/ cal state/ UC system. Berkeley is the UVA/ UMD but it is so overcrowded and impossible to get into the classes you need to graduate. Not everyone can pay for a third year at UCB after two years of JC. The people I knew who went to UCSD were extremely hardworking, ambitious first gen children of immigrant pa who wanted to be scientists/doctors and cure cancer kind of people.

This is not even remotely true.

Nor is lumping UMBC and George Mason. What in the actual eff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None of these are good schools for journalism. You want Northwestern, Missouri-Columbia, Indiana, Ohio University or Columbia.

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+ 10000. First useful post!

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Anonymous wrote:I remember when UCSD was considered the third best UC school (behind Berkeley and LA), but Irvine and Santa Barbara have really come up in the world. I think a big part of that is San Diego is really provincial (I say this as a person who lived there for years) and is a place where people come for the sun and weather. Most students live off campus in small group homes (more accurately hovels) in places like Ocean Beach since La Jolla is one of the most expensive and closed communities in the US, so there is not much school spirit or community. There are a lot of complaints about a lack of class space causing students to take 6 years to graduate, but some of this is due to students who want to hang out in San Diego.

As others mentioned, San Diego State is a party school and has a more defined school community.

USD is very different (obviously smaller and private). I found that people though well of it in San Diego because a lot of alumni work in the area. I would not go there as a minority student.

Another California person here.
I remember that too. I graduated high school in 1993, and around that time it seemed the order went:

Berkely
UCLA
UC San Diego
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
UC Riverside

UC Merced wasn't around then.

I was really shocked to see a few years ago that SB has surpassed Irvine, Davis, and San Diego.

What is UC Merced like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember when UCSD was considered the third best UC school (behind Berkeley and LA), but Irvine and Santa Barbara have really come up in the world. I think a big part of that is San Diego is really provincial (I say this as a person who lived there for years) and is a place where people come for the sun and weather. Most students live off campus in small group homes (more accurately hovels) in places like Ocean Beach since La Jolla is one of the most expensive and closed communities in the US, so there is not much school spirit or community. There are a lot of complaints about a lack of class space causing students to take 6 years to graduate, but some of this is due to students who want to hang out in San Diego.

As others mentioned, San Diego State is a party school and has a more defined school community.

USD is very different (obviously smaller and private). I found that people though well of it in San Diego because a lot of alumni work in the area. I would not go there as a minority student.

Another California person here.
I remember that too. I graduated high school in 1993, and around that time it seemed the order went:

Berkely
UCLA
UC San Diego
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
UC Riverside

UC Merced wasn't around then.

I was really shocked to see a few years ago that SB has surpassed Irvine, Davis, and San Diego.

What is UC Merced like?

New.

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Anonymous wrote:UCSD, San Diego State, University of San Diego. Our DD is interested in studying journalism (at least for now) and is trying to discern between the 3. Any perspective on what each school is known for and what kind of students are happy where? PS: I should note our family is Jewish. Would USD be a bad choice if not Catholic?

I'm surprised you can't research this yourself.

Don’t be an a$$. If nothing to offer, move on.

Don't be lazy . Great comeback by the way! Love it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of these are good schools for journalism. You want Northwestern, Missouri-Columbia, Indiana, Ohio University or Columbia.

o

+ 10000. First useful post!

There's the Walter Cronkite school of journalism which is part of (school in Arizona, just google, maybe ASU or No. Ariz. U or U of A) My friend's kid goes there

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Anonymous wrote:I remember when UCSD was considered the third best UC school (behind Berkeley and LA), but Irvine and Santa Barbara have really come up in the world. I think a big part of that is San Diego is really provincial (I say this as a person who lived there for years) and is a place where people come for the sun and weather. Most students live off campus in small group homes (more accurately hovels) in places like Ocean Beach since La Jolla is one of the most expensive and closed communities in the US, so there is not much school spirit or community. There are a lot of complaints about a lack of class space causing students to take 6 years to graduate, but some of this is due to students who want to hang out in San Diego.

As others mentioned, San Diego State is a party school and has a more defined school community.

USD is very different (obviously smaller and private). I found that people though well of it in San Diego because a lot of alumni work in the area. I would not go there as a minority student.

Off-topic but how is San Diego provincial (or more provincial than LA or SF)?

[Anonymous]

Things have really changed in the past 5-6 years. UC and Cal State admissions are crazy. An unweighted 3.9 and weighted 4.2 (UC cap only allows 8 semesters of honors/AP/dual CC or summer college etc bumps) puts you in the waitlist bucket at mid tier UCs and top CalStates per their data sets. DS was lucky to get into Davis, SDSU, UCSC, UCMerced and waitlisted at UCSD, UCSB and UCI. UC doesn’t allow tests so a 1550 SAT, and excellent teacher recommendations don’t matter. Having an additional a weighted 4.7 above the cap doesn’t matter. Having 60 transferable credits including CC honors courses and all 5s on most rigorous APs doesn’t matter. Holistic may or may not matter. He had really strong ECs but no trauma or hardship. UC waitlists do move so who knows.

He’s looking at UCSD and SDSU now. UCSD has become the desired school for Northern California kids. Not sure why.

He has some high stat friends that are at SDSU now and a bunch of high stat friends who didn’t get in or were waitlisted. Cal States give a sizable bump for regional proximity so you will have local SD students with far lower GPAs than out of region. He’s hoping that there will be enough serious students that he doesn’t feel out of place around the dumb blond party people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of these are good schools for journalism. You want Northwestern, Missouri-Columbia, Indiana, Ohio University or Columbia.

o

+ 10000. First useful post!

Syracuse University used to be excellent for journalism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember when UCSD was considered the third best UC school (behind Berkeley and LA), but Irvine and Santa Barbara have really come up in the world. I think a big part of that is San Diego is really provincial (I say this as a person who lived there for years) and is a place where people come for the sun and weather. Most students live off campus in small group homes (more accurately hovels) in places like Ocean Beach since La Jolla is one of the most expensive and closed communities in the US, so there is not much school spirit or community. There are a lot of complaints about a lack of class space causing students to take 6 years to graduate, but some of this is due to students who want to hang out in San Diego.

As others mentioned, San Diego State is a party school and has a more defined school community.

USD is very different (obviously smaller and private). I found that people though well of it in San Diego because a lot of alumni work in the area. I would not go there as a minority student.

Off-topic but how is San Diego provincial (or more provincial than LA or SF)?

DP but it seems like SD is smaller and there is less to do. SF isnt large but there is a lot packed into it. LA - I will just never understand.

[Anonymous]

SD is actually much bigger city than SF.

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Anonymous wrote:SD is actually much bigger city than SF.

It is but it doesn’t seem that way at all.

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USD is ranked around 100-110. Unless you have some connection to it, it doesn’t seem worth the cost.

[Anonymous]

UCSD alumna here. Historically the school has a lot of Jewish professors. One of the reasons the first trimester starts so late is to accommodate Rosh Hashanah. Overall a great school with a well respected degree. Hard to get admitted from out of state. Family member was recently admitted to USC (So Cal) but not UCSD.