UCSD Colleges Ranked: What’s the best college?

Comparing the residential building exteriors and graduation requirements for each college at UC San Diego, with an accuracy comparable to that of a Reddit comment.

0:00 Introduction
1:16 Revelle
1:53 Muir
2:24 Sixth
2:53 Marshall
3:18 ERC
3:53 Seventh
4:26 Warren
4:51 Conclusion, credits, outro

Music, in order of appearance:
- Take it Slow - SefChol
- Time to Spare - An Jone
- Broken - Patrick Patrikos
- Metamorphosis - Quincas Moreira

Sounds:

Sources (yes, I did some cursory research):

Images:
- Email by Anthony Jakubisin
- Housing crisis:

If you have a dream college, prepare to have that shattered! Remember to lower your expectations as you do for tests. Ultimately, it doesn’t really matter which university you go to. Your university will be a scam, yet it’ll become an unforgettable part of your life.

[kylamariecorpuz]

"the concrete floor here is made of concrete floor" LMAO SO TRUE THO

[shirinsidharta]

I realized I had to rank the colleges quite late and this video helped a lot! Thank you

[jackryan]

Second year ERC student here. Despite the somewhat infamous reputation of ERC's general education requirements (GE's), the Making of the Modern World (MMW) series is really the only notable feature. MWW, however, is a fairly unique animal - I don't think of it as a pure history course, but rather a cultures/global interactions series. The whole series is 5 classes, MMW 11 - 15, with the second two classes being worth 6 units (2 more units than standard). Note that the first three classes in the series MUST BE TAKEN SUCCESSIVELY, do not skip MMW 11, 12, or 13 unless you want to wait a whole year for the class to be available again. There are several professors who teach the series and you are encouraged to jump between them, but it isn't unusual for students to pick their favorite prof and stick with them. If you enjoy, or have some talent for, writing then MWW will be an interesting challenge. If you absolutely despise writing or reading about historical cultures then maybe pick a different college.

Edit: Fixed some information that was out of date. Thanks Chang.

[danhurl]

So to sum up:
Revelle- GE's require one of each science. large windows, right next to academic buildings, Asian food, far away from everywhere. No one likes this place.
Muir- coffee shop, Hawaiian barbecue, vegan food, GE's aren't terrible, 20min of walking away from beach, near the middle of campus
Sixth- newest dorms, concrete floor is made of concrete floor, dining hall has five stations, GE's are easy
Marshall- dorms divided between residence halls and apartments, pizza, GE's are ok
ERC- Everyone hates their MMW writing course, international students and allegedly near the good parties, Latin American food, next to a gym, relatively far
Seventhy- far from everything, all dorms are apartments, sushi, GE"s are pretty good,
Warren- Dorms are far, Mongolian food, all food is halal, all the engineering buildings are there, so good for the engineering majors but not great for everyone else

[notcomedy]

learned so much about concrete floors!

[flappeddual]

Sixth dorm is I highly recommend sixth as your first( even though I am a warren student)

[scottsloop]

who else procrastinating the application trying to figure out how to rank them???

[Nic-sozn]

you're actually the goat bro. i'd give you so much money if i could wtf

[GeovanniGonzalez]

I’m a Junior Transfer in ERC and I definitely didn’t do my research on the colleges because after completing the transfer MMW series I have to say that these courses are some of the worst the school has to offer. In reality it’s a writing, history, and philosophy class all wrapped up in several useless readings and assignments. I definitely recommend people to consider a different college, even the dorms are the on the most north point of campus making everyday another speed run.

[leejuhsu]

Thank you for the video! It's very informative.

[angelagarcia-fhjp]

i ranked the colleges randomly and i got into ERC 😭 cus that was my first choice but i’m kind of regretting it now.. do u think i can change that or are we stuck with it???

[tha_oz]

Man r/ucsd would love this video for prospective students LOL

[bindumv]

Hi, Sean. Great Video. My son got in UCSD Sixth college. Really liked your video. We also opted colleges randomly not knowing the details. We are much inclined to accept UCSD over some very good other collages he got in. The issue is he didn't got his major Computer Science, instead got it as undeclared. Is it possible for him to change the major to CS if he acquired the pre requisites and staying in sixth college, will in anyway help him in that?

[lexieklof]

The insane camera movements triggered my vertigo, and now i'm nauseous. Though, very informative, thanks.

[tha_oz]

This doesn't really apply to transfers since they get their own housing right? And if you complete IGETC you shouldn't be taking much of the GE's when you get to ucsd ?

[gissellemaravilla]

ok which college has good business major, good history classes (i love history) and has an ocean view!

[maeonion]

I got accepted into ucsd yesterday and im on the john muir campus and i ranked them completely randomly 💀 well, i did do a little bit of research during my application but it was a literal 5 min google search so of course I dont know that much about each… is muir a good choice?

[kalijohnston]

i ranked them basically randomly on my application (i read the descriptions but that was about it) and im really regretting it lol

[aarushgupta]

Hi, I am a Data Science major joining this fall. I got into Revelle. Are GEs that bad? Some people tell me it's the worst out of all. Please help.

[cream_.]

How does eighth look? It says that it inaugural in fall 2023 so I can't find anything about it online yet.
Also, do students usually choose colleges based on majors? (choose bio as my major)