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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember when U[b]CSD was considered the third best UC school (behind Berkeley and LA), but Irvine and Santa Barbara have really come up in the world. [/b] 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.[/quote]

UCSD is behind Irvine and Santa Barbara now? [/quote]

[b]They’re are so similar in terms of competitiveness.[/b] UCSB used to be easy to get into, and it’s now much more difficult. I think Irvine & SD are more similar. SB is more traditional campus with social togetherness and spirit. [/quote]

Nonsense[/quote]

No the PP is correct. UC has its own application. The top students shooting for UCLA and UCB all check the boxes for UCSD,UCSB,UCI and UCDavis. These are 4.0 unweighted, 4.3 max capped weighted, all with phenomenal ECs etc. All schools are also receiving  kids with UC optimized stats. For example, a cheerleader who wants psychology might be careful to take no more than 4 courses in honors or AP or dual enrollment and make sure to take the easiest ones to ensure an A. If one of the UCs needs a cheerleader and decides to take one from her school then she’ll get in while her classmate who also selected psychology but didn’t have a perfect unweighted score because she took the hardest APs  and won science competitions will not. The second kid may have a shot at another UC or even UCLA or Cal or may end up with Merced.

All schools are receiving 100,000 applications. As UC is very specific requirements on classes and GPA requirements, very few of those apps aren’t in the qualified range. The schools don’t really yield protect but they spread out their acceptances across CA schools. Because UCs only look at sophomore and junior year grades and cap grade bumps to 8 semesters it creates a large pool of perfect stat kids. It can be really unpredictable who gets in and who doesn’t. The UCs seem to be perfectly fine having a very large waitlist movement and for that movement to be unpredictable. One year UCSD saw 36% of waitlist movement the next year only 6%. It isn’t harder or easier to get into UCSD vs UCSB. [/quote]

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