University of California-Santa Cruz Top Questions

I wish I would have known how many students there really are on campus. Getting on campus housing after your second year is impossible, and while I managed to find a place to live off campus, I know quite a few people that didn't.

Coming from southern California the weather in Santa Cruz was a shock. It gets much colder up here, and rain boots are a necessity. In the winter it rains and is chilly outside for three months straight. Also, the people here are very friendly, and I expect you can attribute that to the tremendous use of marijuana amongst the students and community. I did not expect this drug usage to be such an influence, so if you cannot stand smoking this is not the school for you.

Freshmen and Sophmore's are abosultely not allowed to have cars on campus. You cannot even get a day permit unless you are an upperclassman. Registrar can be a typical, bureaucratic mess. Be prepared to be firm if they do not help you right away.

no club sport teams

to get more involved in order to meet people.

I wish I had known that it is best to get as involved as possible on campus. College went by very fast and it was only towards the end of my college years that I started signing up for extra-curricular activities. There is a lot to do at UC Santa Cruz and the four years went by very quickly.

How to write essays for college. AP English doesn't mean anything when you're writing for college.

I knew all I needed to know, which wasn't much - but it was enough.

I wish i would have known that it has such a strong liberal agenda, and is not very accepting of conservative views