how bad really are the parties

kluge
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:39:19 +0000

kevinf, you make a good point. Your questions aren’t stupid at all. UCSB is a top tier school at the top of its game in some respects - Nobel Prize winning faculty, some very strong academic departments, etc. Top students graduating from UCSB will be perceived as select individuals. But it’s still a state school, operating in the shadow of Berkeley and UCLA. A student who bumps along for 5-6 years before graduating with a C average may well be perceived as a slacker. You don’t get the automatic presumption of quality just for being a graduate as you might from a school with a different reputation. It’s really very much on you - perhaps more so than at a school without UCSB’s colorful reputation.