Transfering in the Fall, which one would YOU choose?

(For a degree 1st, but possibly grad school in future...)

 

You should supply the following information: what do you want to do with it? If you want to go graduate school, I'd actually suggest going to the easier school (UCSC in this case) and getting as close to a 4.0 as possible. If you just want the degree, it doesn't matter what UC you go to.

 

UCSC for the awesome campass and the amount of girls flocking to this school.

 

Is SD referring to UCSD or San Diego St?

 

Theres a lot of variables in choosing colleges besides degree program imo (living costs, environment, just to name a couple), but any of those UC's would be fine for undergraduate study. I would pick UCSD over Davis and Santa Cruz just because of the environment of SoCal.

 

UCD FTW. We actually have a football team.

 

I was an Econ major at UC Davis, and I thought it was a great program. I would suggest though, that if you enroll in the program, to try and choose a curriculum that would be more challenging. It is one of those majors that you can "make easier" by choosing classes that don't require too much math, are heavily theory-based, and will leave you wholly-unprepared for a job. The one class I'd recommend above all others though is Econometrics. It is a very challenging course, in fact, my class only had 11 people since everyone else dropped it, but once you finish, it will be very rewarding. UC Davis also has a managerial econ. major that you might want to look into. The regular Econ major is small enough that you can double-major in something else in the College of Letters and Sciences with relatively little difficulty.
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SC is nice. The campus is nice. The education is respectible. You're a couple minutes from downtown. We're loaded with attractive women/men whatever your preference. Nice bars. Decent music scene. 2 minutes from the beach. 3/4 hours from snowboarding. Housing is NOT cheap here...at all. Nothing is. Gas is as high here as it is anywhere in the country sept maybe S.F.


you have to decide what you want...reputible education, social life, cheap housing, etc.

 

I disagree. I feel like sc is really anti-school. even if a good majority of the townsfolk here don't seem that way. City Council has been impeding ucsc growth both in popularion and expansion of the school for years. Local kids hate us banana sluggers, and onemanarmy's assertion on attractive people....not necessarily true, it's only started to happen in the last few years, for the most part you're stuck with huge hairy ugly forest wookies. the cute girls that end up here are the santa barbara **** rejects, too dumb to get into a cokehead barbiedoll's dream school...go figure. But UCSC itself is a decent school. I've taken some lower division classes in econ, and they're not well taught, but accounting is good from what I hear, and all of my engineering classes are great, and very well taught.

edit: before you completely dismiss it however, SC does have GREAT touge style roads behind it (off empire grade), except for strawberry canyon behind Cal, can't really beat roads like these. There's even a car club that does drives around the area.

 

WTF??? hairy wookies? Where are you hanging out. I've lived here off and on since 92'. I've also lived all over the bay area and southern california. Santa Cruz has the bay area beat per capita HANDS down and its right there with the good spots in socal. And me personally way way prefer the personalities of the women here over the ones in socal and the bay.

You are correct about the city/county view on schooling and stopping expansion, but quite honestly some of the stuff they've shot down was good to shoot down. The school needs to invest more energy into improving without jacking up the environment...it is santa cruz after all.


aparently you're attracted to dumb blonde's with fake ******* and egos so far up their *** they'll probably never see reality. Which we have plenty of...rich girls...plenty. I went to high school with LOADS of them. Me personally...I'm a fan of tattoos, independant thought and intelligence.

If you stay stuck in the UCSC campus and the places they hang out then what you're seeing is all the people that move here from iowa and nebraska and decide it's cool to be a hairy dike woman's lib. psycho hippy. Those are NOT santa cruz women.




and education wise depending on what you want UCSC has a GREAT rep. Specially with the arts and engineering...other than that I can not speak on it. I go to cabrillo and work.

 

I'll be transferring to UCSC in the fall. My major is Business Management Economics. The reason I'm going to UCSC? I don't like SJSU and I don't want to move. Since I live in San Jose, Santa Cruz is like 40-45 min away. And from what I can tell, driving to SC in the mornings is going opposite of traffic.

If I can find affordable housing in SC, I'd rather live there than drive. Plus you can't beat the SC community. Great people, great environment. When I go to UCSC, I'm looking forward to people who might actually add something to the class discussions. I think there will be lots of different opinions and people who aren't afraid to express them.

 

My opinion is biased, but... Davis isn't that bad. There is a cool Subaru community. We like to call it the MurderBurger Meet, but seriously, there are things to do in Davis. A lot of things are overlooked. There's paintball, indoor hockey, skydiving, and like Sean said, Tahoe is an hour and a half out. Not to mention, we have a pretty awesome athletic program.

 

I want a Econ Degree that will open doors for me, either for a job in the financial or investment field or grad school.
i live in san jose, so ucsc would be more convient, but does an econ degree from ucsc really carry any weight?

 

We have a business school here at UCD.

UC Davis Graduate School of Management I think it is called.

 

Not to say that you should pick a school solely based on rankings, since those numbers and such are subjective and not wholly indicative of the entire learning experience you will get from a particular school, you cannot ignore that most employers really do care what school you came out of, and give more weight to the schools they perceive to better ranked. With that said, UCSC, while it may be a good school, is notorious for really being a liberal arts college in the guise of a UC. When I was applying to schools, many years ago, I was told by advisers and such that the people who tend to go to UCSC are going to be liberal arts majors who don't get actual grades, and that if you are in a major that DOES get graded, and you fall in with a group of people who aren't, they may be detrimental to your study habits and such.

I say check out the different programs, see the faculty for each department, search the professors online, and make an informed decision. Keep in mind that once you start, you might change your mind and not decide to do Econ at all. I changed my mind in my 3rd year, so it can happen, even late in your college career.

Wow...I sound really old, but I assure you I am only 25, and graduated from UC Davis only 2.5yrs ago, so my advice isn't too old/dated...I hope.
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