Any UCSB Transfers?

kaoandres
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:16:06 +0000

I got accepted into all the UC’s except for Berkeley. #1 reason I chose UCSB is that it has the best ChE program out of all the UC’s i got accepted into. Then I heard the people here are more sociable and friendly. Nice environment. You can bike to school easily (yes bikes are popular). It has IV, where theres a huge concentration of students, which makes it more of a college town. I mean a college town next to the beach and you can ride your bike to and around campus? What could be better? Downtown is also a plus, its beautiful and there are so many bars and clubs you can hang around at.
I was naive about housing. I got into San Raf, which was pretty neat (its pretty quite) but its a little overpriced in my opinion. I think better housing would be the apartments like Santa Ynez because I heard they give you higher priority for them next year while the dorms do not.
There were many of them. However, I did not go to many of them because you can actually learn a lot about the environment by hanging out with your fellow transfers. I mean they give you like almost a week before classes start so that you can get accostumed. Get to know other transfers or other people and discover things with them.
Yes, for sure. However, you might find the first quarter hard because it is no longer CC. So you might struggle to have both parties and good amount of studying during the first quarter. So I would recommend to take fewer units at that time. Get accostumed to the environment, get to know people and get that studying done. And then start taking as many classes as you want and you will be able to handle then (be wise about it).