Pros and Cons Of UCSB and UCI

awakenedream
Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:16:15 +0000

UCSB pros:
-beautiful campus RIGHT on the ocean
-fun college town
-most people live on and around campus
-great looking people!
-most people are happy at ucsb
-college of creative studies program is awesome, basically like a good LAC under a big university
-social life improves your social skills and personality
-good balance of academics and social life
-biker school - good for exercise
-not cutthroat, relaxed and chill
-getting very selective, had less admit rate this yr and before vs davis and uci b/c ucsb is receiving so many more applicants
-socal

UCSB cons:
-not as diverse - majority is white
-lots of parties, those irresponsible or weak will succumb to partying all the time
-lots of alcohol is consumed, those irresponsible or week have a high potential to abuse their bodies
-they say it has a high std rate, but it really isn’t that much different than most colleges, national average
-con is the hot people too, because if you are not as “good looking”, you may feel pressure, i guess higher susceptibility to anorexia or whatever…?
-longer time to graduate for irresponsible people - the great atmosphere and great people are distracting
-very close to santa barbara city college, the sbcc kids do a lot of partying and are probably not very uplifting influences

UCI pros:
-in a nice area right next to newport beach
-the dorms are named after lord of the rings places, that’s pretty cool!
-campuswide honors program is very prestigious (i think only top 5% of class) and offers a lot of opportunities and attention, and has a lot of perks
-getting more selective too
-socal

UCI cons:
-not as diverse - majority is asian - there are some fobs, and more of those speaking their asian vernacular on campus (i don’t know if that’s a pro or con for you, but just thought i’d state it)
-commuter school, on weekends a lot of people leave
-not a college town, esp because it’s a commuter school
-social life among uci kids not as active (mostly because of the 2 previous cons)
-more studious people, who aren’t as social
-besides a lot of the chp kids who probably chose uci over top uc’s like ucla and uc berkeley and were offered more money and are making the most of the uci education and pay less money, a lot of other uci students aren’t as happy (versus ucsb students)