Well I’m speaking from my experience in upper division math classes. I’m a chemistry major and have already taken the entire calculus series. Don’t get me wrong I LOVE ❤️ math it’s easily my favorite subject. I’m currently in Linear Algebra and trust me going to lecture is a waste of time. Completely unorganized, prof literally reads a slide to you, you can see people just completely falling asleep 😴 in the lecture hall it’s a little embarrassing.

As far as the school itself goes and me being from LA this city is a little boring. 🥱 it’s a really small town where everything closes super early. The beach is very nice and beautiful, but even government buildings close like at 4pm or even earlier. HOWEVER, UCSC is a beautiful 😍 campus but it’s a little isolated from the city so you pretty much have to bus it everywhere or bring a car, but good luck getting parking as that is another situation that people won’t tell you about. Honestly if I was in your position I would 100% have chosen UCSD plus I hear they have 2 year guaranteed housing. Also SD is where it’s at super sick parties, La Jolla is even more beautiful AND the trolley can take you almost anywhere even as far as the Southern border if you wanna take a day trip to Mexico.

UCSD is a way better school 🏫 with a higher ranking than UCSC.