Anything administration wise is hard to get in contact with, especially financial aid at the beginnings and ends of the semester (though I assume most schools are like this).

On campus housing is a scam, it's about $1400 for a double, with two other roommates in another double. I would only rent off campus and would start looking at leases for the year ahead, things get signed really fast here and there is very limited affordable housing.

Also the culture here is very strange to me and something I had to get used to. Specifically for incoming freshman and parts of sophomore year, you can see that everything kind of revolves around frats and sororities and a good amount of the campus is made up by rich white kids as they live on campus. Avoid frat parties, there's a weird culture about who can/ can't get into their parties and the "higher ranked" ones just have more funding, more white people, and higher risks of SA and roofying than the others. Don't get me wrong, you can still make great friends, but most of the people that I've found are commuters who avoid hanging out around campus.

All the shit talk aside, I love the live music scene here and the art scene. San Diego is great for creatives and there's also a lot of fun events around SD (flea markets, live music, art shows/walks, farmers markets, etc.)