<p>If you are looking for an unbiased view, there is no way you are getting it here. (Read: Davis forum).</p>
<p>Anyways, I traveled to Davis to visit my girlfriend a half dozen times or so, and I really liked the campus. It looked like there were plenty of activities… sports, arcade, bowling, bicycling, downtown, etc. </p>
<p>I might have liked the campus because I am more of the quiet type and don’t drink, but my girlfriend assured me that there were tons of frat parties and drinking if you wanted to find it. </p>
<p>So what are you wanting more of? I don’t know much about UCSB, only that it is notoriously known as the party school of the UC system. I guess maybe the whole Isla Vista environment is superior to Davis’s small town feel. I think you are looking for the grass to be greener on the other side, but it is not necessarily so. If you are sitting in your dorm on a friday night wondering why Davis is so boring, that is not necessarily Davis’s problem.</p>
<p>P.S. UC/UC transferring is far easier and more commonplace than this website makes it out to be. Stats don’t lie. And yes, I will eat my words if I get rejected from Davis coming from UCSC :)</p>