University of California-Santa Cruz Top Questions

It seems like EOP students are somewhat "babied" by having priority enrollment over others even if they do not perform well academically. They are rewarded over others that try harder and get much better scores. That's certainly not "equal" opportunity.

all the people that smoke pot and think they are cool

That it is often designated as a "hippie" or "weed" school, which is inaccurate and disrespectful to the university and its students.

Advising is a dead-end. Nobody knows the answer to your questions. Ever. Your best bet is usually your RA or a graduating senior, rather than staff.

One must jump through lots of bureocratic hoops to get help with some issues (academic, financial etc). There is a huge amount of pot smoking everywhere on campus, which doesn't bother me much, but is frustrating for some.

I hate the fact that most of the classes offered to students include an attendancy of 250+ students. In order to truly get to know your teachers, you must stand out from the pool of students. But even so, a teacher teaches 3-4 classes, some filled with over 200+ students. That's 600-800 students she has to work with. I find it hard to believe a teacher can get to know so many students, especially on a quarter system, in such short time.

The most frustrating thing about my school is that we are trying to build more buldings that will help the prestige of the university evole and help out our science program, but people have been protesting, preventing this from happening. Also, it is pretty frustrating coming from a hard working family, and seeing that the university does not lend out much aid to those who really need it.