<p>Hi! I went to COSMOS in 2012, though I did the Video Games Design cluster so I can’t speak to either of the clusters you are interested in. It’s not very clear how hard each one is to get into, though neither of those clusters were the most popular ones, at least (or at least number theory was not–I don’t believe they had computer networking when I was there). Here are some overall stats for UCSC, though, if you’re curious: <a href=“Showing image (3YMPV) - IMG42”>http://img42.com/3YMPV</a></p>
<p>As for how the experience was, I can say it was definitely the best month of my life. Everyone was incredibly funny and smart and nice, professors were great, RAs were great, we did really fun activities and it was just overall super amazing. I strongly recommend it to anyone who’s interested :]</p>