Is it worth $50,000?

mikemac
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:30:14 +0000

I don’t think its worth the out-of-state cost. For $50K you could spend an awful lot of time vacationing at CA beaches and have tens of thousands left over. Or, more realistically perhaps, that amount of money would give you a great head-start out of college in buying a house or going to grad school. In-state UCSB is a great deal, but like any large state school it has large classes, an impersonal advising system, not a lot of faculty contact unless you go to office hours, etc. For what an OOS student spends on a UC school they could go to a good private that offers much more.