University of California-Riverside Top Questions

At UC Riverside, the most common stereotype is that the students are boring. Many factors lead to this frequent generality. For one, Riverside is not a very exciting city and tends to be about an hour away from anything desirable. Los Angeles, the beach, and the mountains are all located an hour away from campus. Another stereotype is that the students are basically losers. UCR is commonly referred to as the University of California Rejects since many students only attend UCR because they could not make it into another UC.

The most common stereotype of students at UC Riverside is that we are all party animals that can care less about school, but it is not accurate. This assumption might have originated from our active Greek life and club activities. While UCR students as a whole do enjoy having some fun once in a while (for example at our annual UCR Heat concert and Block Party), from what I have observed, students do take academics very seriously. I am currently a member of a Greek sorority on campus, and I can say 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} that that stereotype is completely false. Every sorority and fraternity has a minimum GPA, and encourages its members to get better grades through study hours and weekly scholarship forms. Same goes for many organizations on campus. Outside of Greek life, students all work hard for their grades. We often form study groups and help each other out. During midterm and finals weeks, the libraries are generally fully packed. And upper division classes tend to be competitive.

The most common stereotype of students at UC Riverside is that we are all party animals that can care less about school, but it is not accurate. This assumption might have originated from our active Greek life and club activities. While UCR students as a whole do enjoy having some fun once in a while (for example at our annual UCR Heat concert and Block Party), from what I have observed, students do take academics very seriously. I am currently a member of a Greek sorority on campus, and I can say 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} that that stereotype is completely false. Every sorority and fraternity has a minimum GPA, and encourages its members to get better grades through study hours and weekly scholarship forms. Same goes for many organizations on campus. Outside of Greek life, students all work hard for their grades. We often form study groups and help each other out. During midterm and finals weeks, the libraries are generally fully packed. And upper division classes tend to be competitive.

Here at the University of California, Riverside, students are stereotyped as the "rejects" of the UC system. Because the acceptance rate is so high, other UC students tend to feel superior when engaging in conversation with a student from UC Riverside. Now of course, this stereotype is completely inaccurate. At any university, students range from exceptionally intelligent to exceptionally lazy. Students at UCR are diverse, intelligent, creative, kind, and ambitious. Does that sound like a "reject" to you?

The stereotype of students at the University of California, Riverside is quite an intriguing one. Being that UCR is considered to be one of the lower schools in the UC system (which is a stereotype within itself), students at the university are considered to be less intelligent, even lazier than some of the other UCs. This stereotype is far from accurate and UCR is currently making a name for themselves within the UC system and the United States by adding a medical school and law school. The recreation center is being redone and the entire campus is in the process of a makeover. It is difficult to stereotype a campus or the occupants of a campus. Nevertheless, UCR can be considered that underdog that will soon win the championship.

There was a special term for University of California, Riverside at my high school. UCRejects. They used to say that UCR was the place you attend after being turned down from every other UC. "Only stupid people go to UCR." This definitely isn't the case. I've meet all types of people at UCR - some students will have a passion for writing, some for mathematics, and others will be dedicated to philanthropy. Some students at UCR go on to medical school and law school, some become writers and researchers, and each experience is different. There are all sorts of 'types' at UCR, and labeling it as a University for "rejects" is like stating that every college student outside of UCR has never been rejected. Here's the reality: everyone has failed at some point. When you think about UCR, think about the majors it offers, the type of campus life that exists there, the professors who are engaged in research you might be interested in, whether you like the food or hate it - don't think about it like it's a "reject" school. Yes, there are fools at UCR who think they can get by without trying - just like any other college. But those fools aren't all there is to UCR.

The stereotype of the students at UCR tends to be the idea that all UCR students are the rejects from other UCs. As a third year now, I realize this statement is only about half true. When you ask someone why they chose UCR the truth of the matter is, most of the time, they will respond with, "I didn't get in anywhere else." I am also included in this majority of people. When the time came for me to attend college my only choices were San Francisco State and UC Riverside (having already been rejected by UCD, UCLA, and Cal). I chose UCR because I visited SFSU and simply couldn't see myself there, thus UCR was my only option. I was a UC reject. But, in all honesty, UCR has a way of winning over everyone's hearts in this strange and truly surprising way-myself included. I planned to attend UCR in the fall of 2009 with every intention of attempting to transfer out. A month into my first quarter I knew that was never going to happen. I became submerged into a community of people from so many different backgrounds and different places. I attended classes on a beautiful campus, that was big enough but not too big that I felt forgotten. I fell in love with the dorms, the weird dining hall food, the events, the professors, the classes, the people, even that strange scottish bear. This strange love for UCR- the school you hate to love, is the consensus among the majority of everyone there. Yes UCR may not have been our first choice college, but does this make us love it any less? Of course not. Would we trade our college experience for another? OF COURSE NOT.

Typically, the stereotype around UCR is that it is heavily over populated by a majority of commuter students. UCR is not at all a party school and often overlooked as a dead campus with students who fell as last resort college picks. The truth is UCR is actually a sort of a hidden gem for those who become well aware of what the school has to offer along with its students. As a recent graduate, I have been through all the ins and outs of the college life as a dormng student. Make friends, explore, college, and see for yourself what UCR is all about!

University of California Riverside has one stereotype: that it's students are less intelligent, less hard working, and less capable than the students who go to other universities in the UC system. This stereotype comes from the fact that UCR is still a relatively new campus and doesn't have as much of a reputation as other UCs, as well as having a more lax admission policy - allowing many students who may have screwed up in high school a second chance to succeed. UC Riverside is the most diverse campus in the UC system--filled with students of every ethnicity and ideology. We do have our "stoners" "geeks" and "frat kids" but they are all small cliques and none represents the school as a whole. Because of this diversity, it is impossible to pin the students at UCR with any particular stereotype. As such UCR is analogous to the United States of America as a whole, a melting pot full of rich opportunities and experiences.

The stereotype of the students at UCR tends to be the idea that all UCR students are the rejects from other UCs. As a third year now, I realize this statement is only about half true. When you ask someone why they chose UCR the truth of the matter is, most of the time, they will respond with, "I didn't get in anywhere else." I am also included in this majority of people. When the time came for me to attend college my only choices were San Francisco State and UC Riverside (having already been rejected by UCD, UCLA, and Cal). I chose UCR because I visited SFSU and simply couldn't see myself there, thus UCR was my only option. I was a UC reject. But, in all honesty, UCR has a way of winning over everyone's hearts in this strange and truly surprising way-myself included. I planned to attend UCR in the fall of 2009 with every intention of attempting to transfer out. A month into my first quarter I knew that was never going to happen. I became submerged into a community of people from so many different backgrounds and different places. I attended classes on a beautiful campus, that was big enough but not too big that I felt forgotten. I fell in love with the dorms, the weird dining hall food, the events, the professors, the classes, the people, even that strange scottish bear. This strange love for UCR- the school you hate to love, is the consensus among the majority of everyone there. Yes UCR may not have been our first choice college, but does this make us love it any less? Of course not. Would we trade our college experience for another? OF COURSE NOT.