University of California-Santa Cruz Top Questions

The worse thing about my school is the reputation that we are just a bunch of marijuana smoking hippies and we party a lot. It's a bad assumption becasue it's not entirely true and it causes people to look down on us compared to the other UCs.

The worst thing about UCSC is that the campus is a bit confusing. The reason why is that it is a huge campus with two bus systems located in the woods and it makes finding classes and buildings quite difficult.

The town where it's located. There isn't very much to do, or at least things that I'm interested in.

I believe that the worst thing about my school is the lack of school spirit and the lack of division 1 sports; if my school had these two important components then Santa Cruz would become a more popular university.

The worst part about the school is how isolated it is from the town of Santa Cruz. It makes it difficult to meet upper classmen.

The worst thing about my school is how hard it is to get into classes you need and the complexity of the school website.

I attended UCSC during the early years of its inception, in 1977; many areas were still experimental, such as the use of narrative evaluations instead of grades. Now, students receive grades, which allows graduates to provide a G.P.A. to prospective employers or in search of higher education. UCSC also had a poor academic reputation; it was considered "flaky," a claim I found even in the late 70s (a time still within the hippie hey-day) to be false: coursework was rigorous, comprehensive, and fascinating. I abhorred others' uninformed comments that my college was anything but academically stellar.

The worst thing about my school would probably be that it is so huge.

Tuition is too high. It can sometimes feel overbearing and hard to escape. It's stressful to know that upon graduating I will have to begin paying for it.

The worst thing about my school is its reputation. UC Santa Cruz doesn't have the strictest enforcement of drug use, which causes a more "laid back" attitude among students and leads to a high presence of drug and alcohol activity on campus. I believe this contributes to the attitude that UCSC isn't one of the most prestigious schools in the country and is just a "party" and "drug" school. I think this university is capable of being one of the top instituitions, but it's association with "potheads" holds it back from its true potential.

Terribly expensive and getting more so every year. It's best to live off campus if you have reliable trasportation to class (car/scooter/bike).

The worst thing about UCSC is the impacted and overcrowded classes, but that's true throughout the UC system. Also, because UCSC is an energy efficient campus, when it gets hot outside, not all the air conditioners in the lecture halls run.

If I had to truly pick the worst thing about UCSC, it would be the difficulty of receiving the classes I would like to enroll in for the amount of money that I am paying each year.

The school is very spread out and isolated making interaction and social life difficult.

The campus is really spread out and sometimes transportation can be a pain. I do often use the buses to get around, but I normally walk to my classes since the buses don't take me there. It takes about 10-15 minutes to walk to class, which sometimes results in me being tardy to the class.

The worst thing about my school is that the future of the university lies in the decisions of a few businessmen called "the regents". Therefore, fees have been raised by almost {4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c}50 in the last year, even though the state made a commitment in the 20th century for free public education to all California citizens, and decent prices for out of state students.

It is really big and all of the classes are in different buildings which means you have to travel alot on foot or you have to take the bus. It is also easy to get lost.

Although the educators and students at the University of California, Santa Cruz have successfully created an environment where most of its student body truly does accept those less conformist beliefs, opinions, and practices, it has not produced an enviornment that respects the beliefs, opinions, and practices of the more conservative. The social standard of not only tolerance, but acceptance, at UCSC will be more respected and even more successfully applied if its faculty, staff, and students actually practices what they preach: To extend respect and equality amongst all human beings, not only those that are the same or more liberal.

I consider the worst thing about my school is that there is not as much diversity as I was expecting. There are different races and ethnicities in my school but I would have liked more diversyity in my school.

The worst thing about this school is that it is very liberal. Although many people may like this about UCSC, I think this detracts students from other viewpoints that are out in the world. I also think the worst thing about my school is that it does not have a wide array of students from different socio-economic backgrounds. From the people I have interacted with on my campus, most are white students who come from middle class or higher class backgrounds.