Dear Fellow Parents,

Welcome to John Muir College! I am delighted that your son or daughter has chosen to attend the University of California, San Diego. In the short span of some four decades, UCSD has been able to achieve a stature comparable to that of institutions which were founded a century or more ago.

This rise to distinction resulted from wise and careful planning by visionary faculty and administrators who sought to attract the best scholars the academic world could offer and to build the new campus around them.Continued generous support from the State of California has been a key factor in UCSD's growth. The University of California, San Diego is now recognized throughout the academic world both for the eminence of its faculty and for the quality of its undergraduate and graduate programs. Muir College maintains the heritage of the remarkable man for whom it was named. John Muir was committed to learning, self-sufficiency and the betterment of mankind. The faculty of John Muir College has established a flexible set of general education and graduation requirements to encourage your sons and daughters to take an active role in their own intellectual development.

The students who are entering Muir College, including your daughter or son, belong to a select group. The ratio of applications to available spaces in the freshman class was almost twelve to one, allowing us a particularly high admission standard. Each Fall, Muir's combined verbal and mathematics SAT scores are among the highest in the University of California system.
I have been deeply impressed by the fine undergraduate young men and women at John Muir College and I greatly appreciate your entrusting them to us. I look forward to meeting you at this year's college events.

Sincerely,

Susan Smith
Provost of Muir College