UCSB: party school or "The Next UCLA"

[Syringer]

UCLA is harder to get into than Berkeley.

 

[kermalou]

when i went there it was party school, but by the time i graduated the classes were getting harder and harder and from what i am hearing it is impossible to get in there....

 

[Rickten]

news flash if you get straight A's or >3.5 gpa at any UC with recommendations from your profs you will have no problem getting into a good grad school. People put too much emphasis on rankings.

 

[Brackis]

Originally posted by: Rickten
news flash if you get straight A's or >3.5 gpa at any UC with recommendations from your profs you will have no problem getting into a good grad school. People put too much emphasis on rankings.

Perhaps, but the discussion is about quality of learning, and the student body, not what can get you in where.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Brackis

Easy there Webster, it was was 4:37 am when I typed that. There was a good deal of implied sarcasm that was indicated from "elitist" and on.

But honestly, I justed wanted to know what I missed out on, if anything, out in the land of sun and fun. At times I thought it to be an ideal local, but what turned me off was the combination of high GPA and low SAT scores, from which I got the feeling that it was filled with overachievers and/or the california public school system is too easy.

lol, don't worry about it, I was just fooling around.

 

[Brackis]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: Brackis

Easy there Webster, it was was 4:37 am when I typed that. There was a good deal of implied sarcasm that was indicated from "elitist" and on.

But honestly, I justed wanted to know what I missed out on, if anything, out in the land of sun and fun. At times I thought it to be an ideal local, but what turned me off was the combination of high GPA and low SAT scores, from which I got the feeling that it was filled with overachievers and/or the california public school system is too easy.

lol, don't worry about it, I was just fooling around.

Being an elitist New Englander I have to be right.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: bolido2000

Originally posted by: HenHowC
you're biased epsiIon! haha jk i'm going off my own archaic rankings based off of when i applied to college in 1998.

it does honestly depend on your field of study. if I were able to chose again I might have gone somewhere else than ucla. i second the previous poster who stated that EE and CS departments at UCLA aren't that great.

if you have a choice between ucla and berkeley for engineering...i'd say definitely go to berkeley...i might even say go to uci over ucla if you want to do CS. Most of the CS majors I know that graduated from UCLA can't program worth sh!t...if they can they are usually the self-taught ones who already knew how to program before they started college. The course load heavily leans toward theory that would most likely NEVER be put into use when employed as a software coder

I graduated Comp Sci and E at UCLA. I used to think the CS and EE depts are UCLA were pretty bad, but my supervisor at work swears by UCLA/Berkeley CS programs. He says the important thing is that they teach you how to think, rather than just be a code monkey. I'm not sure if I'll agree with that. It's true that I knew a lot of CS/CSE people at UCLA that graduated without knowing how to program. Me included

i graduated knowing how to think and program. then agian i never went to class and knew how tot hink and program before i got there. but i did get this pretty piece of paper and a job and its a great school to go to , if you dont really care about teachers (i really believe teachers basically suck at every school, so the decision really shoud be based on atmosphere anyway)

 

[Buttzilla]

graduated from ucsb in 2001 w/ degree in biopsych and ethinic studies. all major univisities are parties schools PERIOD. by your 3rd and 4th year students hardly party as much anymore since they're all trying to finish up their classes and get the fvck out. a significant portion of the people who party in IV are from sbcc or slo. btw ucsb will NEVER rid itself of the party image. what do you expect when you cram 25k people in a 1 square mile block with an beach walking distance away, your 5 hours away fromt he bay area and 3 hours away from LA. there's nothing else to do! it's not like we can jump in a car and drive to downtown la or sf to hang out. we're stuck in goleta day in a day out.

but it doesn't matter that we just recieved 4 nobel prizes in the last few years. when i was there we recieved 3.

 

[BullyCanadian]

I wish I could transfer to UCLA one day

 

[chiwawa626]

I'd have to say that grouping UCSD with UCI/UCD is wrong. We all know UCB/UCLA shares the top ranking among the UC's, next comes UCSD. UCI, UCSB and UCD fall togather. and UCSC and UCR, lets just say they should be happy to have UC in front of their names.

 

[EmperorIQ]

what you guys are leaving out is the overall name. I've heard the phrase "it doesn't matter where you get your education, but where you graduate from." Most companies recruit mainly at LA and berkeley.