<p>I’m not entirely sure what the real due date is for the College of Creative Studies Mathematics major. I’ve received a few conflicting dates, and I was wondering if anyone could clarify this for me.</p>
<p>Recently, they updated the Admissions section of their website to claim that:</p>
<h1>JANUARY 11, 2010 for Art, Biology, Computer Science, Literature, and Music Composition majors.</h1>
<h1>FEBRUARY 3, 2010 for Mathematics majors.</h1>
<h1>(f10 date not submitted) for Chemistry & Biochemistry and Physics majors.</h1>
<p>Originally, Mathematics was grouped with the last three, and had no set date. However, last month I received an email from them saying that:</p>
<p>“It is extremely important to get your CCS application and all required supplementary materials submitted to CCS in a timely manner. You should attempt to get all materials for your CCS application mailed to the College as soon as possible, but no later than January 11, 2010. This is the CCS Priority Filing Date for fall 2010.”</p>
<p>Could any of you offer insight to what the exact date is? If it really is February 3, I would like to be able to utilize that extra time, but otherwise I will assume that the earlier date is correct. I will also attempt to send an email to the college itself later today.</p>
<p>January 11 is the priority deadline. If you send in your supplements by Jan 11th, your application will be primarily considered. If you apply for CCS later than Jan 11th, then your application will be based on available spaces left in the program at the time. You can also send in your supplements for CCS in summer and they will still accept it on a rolling admission basis.</p>
<p>But the thing is that you can pretty much apply or transfer to CCS whenever you want during your Freshman and Sophomore years. You can also take CCS Math classes and get a feeling of what CCS Math is like, while you’re in Letters and Sciences. So you don’t really need to rush in your application. But beware that CCS students do have the priority registration passes, which means they can choose their classes before other students (honor students have the same privilege).</p>
<p>I just got a reply to the email I sent Frank Bauman earlier this evening (right before midnight on the West Coast, no less!). According to him, the UCSB CCS Mathematics Department “set the priority application date for Mathematics applications to February 3rd”, so it looks like I have a little more breathing room than I originally thought.</p>
<p>Thanks for your replies, and good luck with your applications (assuming you’re at that stage of the game, of course).</p>
<p>Wow this is really lucky that I stumbled upon this today. I had no idea they had changed the deadline…Awesome!</p>
<p>Anyway, I have a question that is kind of off topic. I am actually applying for the math major at CCS and considering how hard it is to find any sort of statistics and information regarding the program, I was hoping you could share some info with me. </p>
<p>So the thing is I’ve read a lot of conflicting opinions in CCS on forums, but none of them come from actual students (let alone math) and I was wondering what you thought of the math program compared to more traditional math programs at other UC’s? Have you heard anything about the grading system making it difficult to get accepted to great graduate programs? What are the rates more or less? It’s just that I’m concerned with CCS being such a small college that it will be completely unknown by large recognized graduate programs. Additionally, how large are the classes? How many people are actually math majors? Based on a student population of 350 in all CCS majors, that’s roughly 40 kids per major, but I assume math is considerably less. </p>
<p>Also, their website says a lot about the freedom students have regarding their schedule and stuff, and I was just wondering how much of that is actually true. How much leeway do you get? How much one on one attention? </p>
<p>I would really appreciate you answering some (if not all) of these questions. I am not accepted yet, but I think based on my GPA and other stuff, that I’m a good candidate. Because I also applied to Berkeley and I’m relatively sure I’ll get it, I’m just trying to figure out which one would be the best choice. Even though Berkeley has all the prestige, CCS sounds awesome. I just wonder if it sounds too good to be true. </p>