University of California-San Diego Top Questions

it is very diverse!

The UCSD student body is pretty eclectic, I think. I am friends with people from all different parts of campus and the student body. I think that the housing system does a good job of placing students together that get along, but also have different interests and will open up the minds of those living around them.

Races tend to segregate. There is a large asian body but generally speaking the vietnamese hang with the vietnamese, the koreans with koreans, Chinese with Chinese, and so forth. Indians are very cliquey and so are the white people. Students usually wear dark or muted colors. I heard secondhand that the average annual income of a UCSD family is $100,000, and i believe it! I run a business and often try to hire from UCSD. I AM EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED by the lack of initiative and nonlinear thought by my peers. They all think they will make bank but according to graduation statistics, average income after graduation in 2006 was 40,000 per year. Most of my hippie friends are transferring out. They all complain about the rigor of classes and lack of social life. But they're lazy and antisocial. Students are politically aware but not at all active. I find people of all political spectrums, but they largely lean center (very few rabid liberals

Students are very open minded and they don't fall into any stereotypes in general. They don't mostly tend to be too politically active or aware, but there are still a lot of groups you could join where you'd get your fill of that stuff.

For how diverse the student body is, I have never had or heard of any racial, religious or LGBT conflict on campus. There's a group for everyone to fit into. The art kids, the sorority/frat kids, athletic ones, student activists, religious- everything. It seems there's a lot of students going into the medical sciences or engineering but it really isn't about the career or the money- more about being productive to society. Students aren't tooo politically active, but if anything, we're a fairly liberal bunch. It's especially awesome to be at Roosevelt College where we have so many international students.