My son needs a bike for the fall.
I was gonna go bike shopping with my son. Rejected by ucsd and uci, he chose ucd over ucsb for biology.1 400 sat and 4.0 GPA doesn’t give you your choice of 2nd tier U.C’s. these days.I wont mention demographics Asian cough cough.[/quote]
Buy him a car if he’s going to ucd. 1. It will make him feel better 2. He’ll be a popular kid. 3. Car prices have been and will continue to go down. 4. He deserves a reward for his hard work and accomplishments, despite stupid school administrators not giving him credit for it.
UCD is a good school. He’ll do fine.
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UCD is a great school – behind only Stanford in northern California. Maybe behind UCB for certain majors.
I’m not sure getting him a car will raise his social stature there. It is very much a green-leaning school so a bike might be better. Davis was known for always pushing the envelope on the environmental front with lots of psuedo-hippy students and professors. Things may have changed since I hung out there but I doubt it.
I remember my Dad and I toured a solar housing development there in the 1970s – and nobody was doing solar in the 1970s!
You should not feel apologetic about UCD at all. It is highly regarded, he’ll get a great education, and he’ll love the area. And from a parents perspective: it is a very safe town and costs are relatively low as far as California goes. It is so close to Sac that you’ll have lots to do when you go up for visits. Downtown Sac is very vibrant now with lots of bars and restaurants – my wife and I were surprised how much it has changed since we lived up that way. A great live music venue that looks like a hole-in-the-wall: Torch Club.
