The University of California San Diego (StudentsReview)

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Describes the student body as: Afraid, Broken Spirit Describes the faculty as: Condescending, Unhelpful, Self Absorbed

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Lowest Rating Educational Quality	F

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He cares more about Surrounding City than the average student.

Date: Jun 25 2011
Major: Chemistry (This Major's Salary over time)
I don't want to post a negative or positive comment about my school, but I would rather just give you the facts from my perspective as a student.

Classes are too large. They say the faculty to student ratio is something like 19:1. How is this even possible when most of my classes have 200+ students in it?

Tuition keeps increasing each year and fees keep getting added on. The number of classes keeps getting cut so it's harder to find classes that I can take to graduate on time.

The weather is nice in San Diego, but there is hardly anything to do in the surrounding city of La Jolla. It's like a retirement community for really wealthy people.

If you don't have a car on campus, you need one. The public transportation in San Diego outside of the immediate downtown San Diego/Gaslamp District is poor. Also, you will need a car to go home each weekend like everyone else since this is a COMMUTER school. It empties each weekend.

It just didn't feel like a college to me. Just a factory churning out students without really learning. It's more memorizing for midterms and finals and forgetting about it and off with new stuff in ten weeks.

Responses

This doesn't seem like a commuter school to me because there are lots of students who come from all around the world. Maybe some people get the impression that UCSD is a commuter school because the students who come from miles rent houses off campus and aren't the property of UCSD.

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