University of California-San Diego Top Questions

I hear that UCSD is an anti-social, lacking school spirit, don't party, and everybody goes home on the weekends.

That they are boring, that there is nothing to do, that people are to themselves, that they aren't spirited

1. The girls are ugly (false!) 2. Muir kids are slackoffs (true!) 3. Revelle kids are geeks (true!) 4. UCSD stands for University California Socially Dead. (true/false. You just have to know where to look)

Very smart students, lots of asians, usually science major, fairly conservative, hard studiers

unsocial

A lot of people stereotype us party-goers just because they hear "San Diego", but once you get to college you realize that we're the nerd school out of all the San Diego universities.

Nerdy, boring, unattractive girls

Mainly, people think we're socially dead nerds. I feel like that image is starting to change as greek life and kind of sports become more popular, but no real progress is being made.

I've heard of a couple mixed reviews. There's one that says UCSD is a nerd school. But a lot of people tend to mix up UCSD with SDSU, which is possibly one of the biggest party schools I know. Another is something called "UCSD beer goggles" or the fact that nobody at UCSD is hot.

nerds, studying all the time, parties consist of groups studying together at geisel library