got accepted here

[Anonymous No.18175107]

do i accept their admission or ignore it

[Anonymous No.18175149]

I'd wait a year for the collapse in international students and migration to online classes to force steep, desperate discounts.

[Anonymous No.18175168]

>>18175107
>Merced
I hate to break it to you pal but that is the UC for retards. When they say that something like 60 percent of applicants to the 'University of California' are accepted, its mainly Merced they got into. Even Riverside is a league above it now
Where else did you get in? Were you offered scholarship money?

[Anonymous No.18175190]

>>18175168
Is it better than a state school?

[Anonymous No.18175264]

>>18175107
I wouldn’t do it if I had options for a college in a city more reputable or known. I know that sounds stupid but it matters. State schools aren’t that rebuked by comparison to Merced.

[Anonymous No.18175322]

>>18175190
It (along with all other UC campuses) are state schools. Depends on what your other options are. In california, I'd say Long Beach State and Cal Poly are "better" than Merced, but again, I don't know your situation fully

[Anonymous No.18175586]

>>18175107
You could go to community college for two years and transfer into a better UC

[Anonymous No.18175618]

>>18175107
university of mercedes benz is a prestigious school, its the existential bane of the ivies, accept anon and dont let these drop outs tell you otherwise

[Anonymous No.18175754]

>>18175322
Cal Poly at least has location going for it. The area around Morro Bay is beautiful.

[Anonymous No.18175801]

>>18175107
im still waiting on my decisions since im a transfer, but damn bro. i would prob kms if the best school i got accepted to had an act range of 20-27
t. 35

[Anonymous No.18175809]

>>18175586
but at a much lower quality of education
UC want you to maintain a decently high GPA, and doing that at a community college is tough when teachers dont care and classes aren't well made

[Anonymous No.18175850]

>>18175586
this DESU

[Anonymous No.18175852]

>>18175809
getting a good gpa at community college level is easy as shit. just use ratemyprofessor to dodge the tryhards that larp as if they are actual professors

[Anonymous No.18175893]

>>18175852
well... i didnt apply to a community college should i just decline the admission offer and try next year?

[Anonymous No.18175904]

UNIVERSITY OF
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[Anonymous No.18175918]

>>18175190
All UCs are better than all state schools, at least in reputation.
t. San Diego State graduate

[Anonymous No.18175936]

>>18175893
it's not too late to apply to cc... don't accept admission to a school if you wouldn't be happy to take your four years there. if you are just an average student with a 3.0 and a 22 act, then take the offer.

going to a school that you are better than is a bad idea--trying to transfer up later is a horrible idea.

[Anonymous No.18175937]

>>18175918
ok just gonna accept that Merced offer lol

[Anonymous No.18176013]

>>18175918
Yes but consider the fact that no one has proven the existence of an afterlife or reincarnation. You're telling me that between choosing the virgin UC Merced and the chad SD State you would voluntarily spend 4 years of your life in Merced just for the letters UC on a piece of paper? Either make a lifestyle choice to attend a subpar school where you can live a little or go to community college and make grades to transfer to a reputable institution.

[Anonymous No.18176068]

>>18176013
again with the community college lmao

refer to
>>18175809

[Anonymous No.18176136]

>>18176068
going to UC Merced because you don't trust community college instructors is weak logic. There are plenty of decent 2 year programs in CA, when I lived in the Bay it was fairly common for academically talented peasants to transfer from Berkeley City College to Cal.

[Anonymous No.18176149]

>>18176068
I saw your post about California CCs and it's true, but I can say some of the most brilliant people I met in my time at UCLA (undergrad and grad school) were transfers who kicked ass at their local CC. it's a grind but those who maintain the high GPA definitely deserve the transfer to a good UC. it's wayyy cheaper too.

[Anonymous No.18176169]

>>18175937
did you only apply to merced? I was under the impression that if you applied to all other UC schools you were offered acceptance at merced.
>t.UCSD grad

[Anonymous No.18176181]

>>18176169
i applied to 3 other UC campus's

[Anonymous No.18176204]

>>18176181
no acceptance? Honestly it's cheaper just to do two years at CC then transfer into a better UC. that said there's something to be said for going to a state school and banging low iq broads while you get your degree.

[Anonymous No.18176250]

>>18176181
Accept Merced, work your ass off to do better than all the beaners for a year or two, transfer to UCSD, LA, or Berkeley depending on the field you're in.

[Anonymous No.18176278]

>>18175107
lol, ignore it and aim higher. Also, if you aren't going to either UCLA or Berkeley it isn't worth it. At least in terms of UCs

[Anonymous No.18176328]

>>18176278
might be true. lot of chink broads to bang at UCSD though.

[Anonymous No.18176403]

>>18175893
i once declined admission to all UC schools and tried again
i got the exact same results
for reference, i got into merced, riverside, santa cruz, davis

[Anonymous No.18176468]

>>18176250
highly considering this route, will prob go with it

[Anonymous No.18176472]

Went to UCSB, loved it, highly recommend. Best thing you can do is do research alongside a professor, seek them out yourself, show initiative and you'll make it.

[Anonymous No.18176512]

>>18176468
honestly OP, a good community college is worth it. i went straight to a state school, and now i wish i'd done cc. at cc, it's easier to maintain higher grades. you save money, and have more options. also, you figure out what you want to do. most people end up changing majors. at cc its a lot easier to explore, because there's a lot less money on the line.
if your plan is to transfer out of merced, why waste tens of thousands going to merced?

[Anonymous No.18176517]

>>18175107
Merced is a shithole

[Anonymous No.18176561]

>>18176250
>>18176468
UC to UC transfers are notoriously low acceptance rate. I know one person who went UCSC to UCLA, but she literally did not get anything below an A her entire college career. I think >>18176512 is right, if you plan to transfer out of merced, you might as well just go to a CC initially and save cash

[Anonymous No.18176575]

>>18175149
Pretty much this. California universities are all in massive debt.

[Anonymous No.18176638]

all this being said, OP, merced is not a bad school. it is better than the majorities of state schools. it just looks weak compared to the other UCs.
dont be afraid to go to merced, if merced offers programs you're interested in.
DONT go to merced if your only goal is to transfer.

[Anonymous No.18176650]

>>18175809
>much better quality education
No. It’s undergrad and it’s the first two years of undergrad which is all homogeneous and standardized with the rest of the country. You aren’t even getting real professors at that level, you’re getting adjuncts. Real professors spend their time doing research not teaching your babbys first Diff Eq class.

[Anonymous No.18178157]

>>18175107
merced is shit go to CC then transfer
>>18175586
this
>>18175809
this guy is retarded.

only downside to CC is no 1-2 year at college for the "dorm experience".

pros are
>higher acceptance rate for UCs
>MUCH cheaper (free if poor) 300$ vs 5,000 (poor)/10,000 per semester.
>potentially easier classes
UCs are required to get CC grads. and the accpetance rate is 10-20x higher than from high school

[Anonymous No.18178215]

CC's also have Transfer Guarantees if you maintain a high gpa, as opposed to the abysmal rates even at those same gpas for regular transfers.

[Anonymous No.18178461]

>Commiefornia

[Anonymous No.18178474]

>>18176278
UC Davis is a great school.

[Anonymous No.18178537]

>>18175107
Unless you're looking to go into a field that needs prestige like business or looking to do a master/PhD/MBA it's in all likelihood fine. Berkeley fine arts degrees will still be as unemployed as University of Phoenix a year after they graduate. If you get an engineering degree and all the requirements to apply for p.ENG in a couple of years you will be fine. What you study matters a whole lot more than where you study for most technical fields. Also if it's your best school you should probably still go. People tend to shake out where they belong

[Anonymous No.18178592]

>>18175107
If you want to live in a depressed shit hole for four years go ahead. You'll also need to develop bobcat eyes as the girls aren't up to /biz/ standards. Just go to a cc