{"id":959,"date":"2013-07-15T20:52:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T20:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2013-07-15T20:52:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T20:52:20","slug":"how-cutthroat-is-the-engineering-competition-at-ucla-and-ucsd-compared-to-uc-davis-and-cal-poly-slo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"How cutthroat is the engineering competition at ucla and ucsd compared to uc davis and cal poly slo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;margin:5px;font-size:80%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"engineering failures\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8149\/7610058658_4ecb7a07c9_m.jpg\" width=\"160\"\/><br \/> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44124348109@N01\/7610058658\">jurvetson<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Question by SkyO<\/i>: How cutthroat is the engineering competition at ucla and ucsd compared to uc davis and cal poly slo?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In undergraduate engineering what is the competition like? Are they overall the same or is ucla full of uber geniuses compared to slo? How hard are the professors on grading? etc etc<br \/>\nAny comments, opinions, and anecdotes are helpful<br \/>\nand if it helps, I&#8217;m not one of the brightest students in high school<br \/>\nweighted gpa 4.19 (right under ucla avg for all freshmen)<br \/>\nAP US 5, AP World 5, AP English 3<br \/>\nsats 1990<br \/>\nact 31<br \/>\nmath 2 800<br \/>\nus history 750<br \/>\nand I know most freshmen engineers have stats better than mine<br \/>\nSo what is the competition like at these schools relative to each other? Is ucla and ucsd so hard in engineering that I would not have a college life cuz of the workload?<br \/>\nok yeah that answer had good details t now im scared cuz if it turns out I don&#8217;t love engineering I&#8217;ll probably end up in medical school which i need a good gpa for<br \/>\nmore opinions comments and experiences plz<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by Alec<\/i><br \/>I dont know about cutthroat competition, but i think UCSD would be an excellent choice. yes it is pretty competative but i think u have the scores for it. san diego has a very scientific and techy field market, anything from software developement, to nuclear physics, to building tracer bombs. it provides for great opportunity career-wise after u obtain your degree, its a very well established school. my dad works in computer science and looks at UCSD for interns and grad students all the time (in fact his offices are right across the street, lol)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by jurvetson Question by SkyO: How cutthroat is the engineering competition at ucla and ucsd compared to uc davis and cal poly slo? In undergraduate engineering what is the competition like? Are they overall the same or is ucla full of uber geniuses compared to slo? How hard are the professors on grading? etc etc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2524,2521,2520,591,90,2525,2522,2523],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-flaws","tag-compared","tag-competition","tag-cutthroat","tag-davis","tag-engineering","tag-poly","tag-ucla","tag-ucsd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}