Bummer it was raining today!
@shayhello17 How much is the deposit?
So I went to Triton Day knowing for sure I would be attending UCSB but after Triton day I can honestly say I loved UCSD Campus! See you there next fall Tritons! 
@bmora101 Deposit is $450, based on last year’s payment plan. Also, in regards to my first post, if you SIR and submit your housing app by June 1st, housing is guaranteed for 2 years.
@suenos53 @shayhello17 thank you! so there isn’t priority for which room/building you want until later?
@bmora101 yeesss!!!
@otoribashi This is what I could find on the UCSD Housing FAQs. It looks like we can indicate our preferences once we begin the housing contract process in late June.
For Incoming Transfers:
First-year incoming transfer students are housed at The Village. Information pertaining to housing assignment will be posted in early June. Students who complete the housing contract process will preference their room type in the summer.
All on-campus residents will receive their specific room assignment details (roommate(s), building, floor-plan, double, triple, or single room) in late-August from the Residential Life Offices.
i dont know if there’s a thread for this in another section but boy do i hope the organizers read this for next year:
for village tours… please have everybody wait in a chute in front of library walk. then when a bus is about to arrive, you count however many people will be going on a tour and have the tour guide walk them over to the bus, take em to the village, and get their tour started the second they step foot outside of the bus. you wouldn’t have such a huge line since people will see how long the line is in a chute and they’d have the freedom to look at other tents before returning for their tour. meanwhile with the line being primarily at the village, there’s not much for them to see and learn about if they’re just crammed into a stairwell.
what they did instead was have a long line waiting for the shuttles. people just squeezing in get driven to the village. then at the village, wait in another huge line to go down the stairs (which is a huge safety hazard), then wrap the line around and have another line inside of a room and from there finally get a tour. i did appreciate the free breakfast foods outside of the line but seriously that isn’t really safe and if a fire marshal were around you’d get in big trouble. plus these people are here to be impressed by your school, i heard so many grumpy conversations in that line. having people wait in long unorganized lines is the easiest way to have people dislike their experience. also, there were no students controlling the line until the very end where they count them off and i think it was only 1 or 2 people. when i asked another student in those ask me village shirts about where was the correct place of the line was she had no idea in such a flippant attitude. she didn’t leave a good impression either. i understand that she might not have known but if you’re wearing one of those t shirts you should know your stuff and carry yourself with some level of authority, otherwise you breed distrust among the people you’re supposed to be leading and leave a very bad impression of “nobody here knows what they’re doing nobody here seems to care.”
something i noticed in comparison to other UC transfer events is that there weren’t many student volunteers helping out. i feel it could have added to creating a spirited atmosphere if we had seen many many more students volunteering. they don’t have to be doing anything super formal, but they could just be there to amp up people and make some friendly noise and show some spirit/enthusiasm on campus. they could be directing people towards the other locations/booths behind price center (that spread out confused me too! there were no students/booths/balloons to guide you there and it feels so disconnected to have tables and balloons/people in one area and suddenly nothing and then back to booths again.it just doesn’t feel unified and makes the school appear more empty).
besides that i really loved the event. it is a shame that what was supposed to be a 30/20 minute housing tour ended up turning into a 3 hour wait (did i mention there was a huge line to wait for the shuttles to return BACK to geisel? yeah.) unfortunately i did not have time to attend other presentations i was looking forward to attending because of that.
@otoribashi you could’ve walked to the village… it was a 10 minute walk.
@otoribashi Given your experience, I’m glad my family skipped the tour of housing and hiked by it later. We didn’t get to see the dorm rooms but the buildings were modern and attractive. The super computer tour was great and the study abroad and CS talks were good. Guides in each section we visited were helpful and friendly but I agree, we could have used more signs to get from one event/location to another. For those of you who haven’t seen the campus, the campus is very attractive with hills and large trees. The library stands out with its spectacular glass architecture. The CS building is modern and huge. The architecture of the engineering building is whimsical with a Wizard of Oz house at the top of the building (I kid you not). I ended up with a great impression of the school.
@pickwilliams it’s not about me. my father can’t walk very much. it’s about the impression it leaves on families. not everyone has the liberty to walk freely wherever they want please check your privilege before you make insensitive comments thank you
@otoribashi are you a CS student? I attended the talk if you have any questions. I also went to the study abroad lecture. I was pretty tired by the time we got out of the last talk and we returned home. I hope your dad got through the day okay. Very frustrating standing in line all that time and then missing the lectures. Let me know if you have any questions and I (and others in this group) can try to fill you in on what we learned,
Does anyone know what happened to this year’s acceptance rate? This year, there are only 2400 spots for transfers and 5300 spots for freshmen.
@Oriolee What was it last year?
@otoribashi it was insensitive but you dont have to be rude
@astrophilia Last year : 35.9% (30,264 admits) for freshmen and 53% (9,809 admits) for transfers
This year: 5.9% (5300 spots) for freshmen and 13.5% (2400 spots) for transfers
@Oriolee Ohh, wow. Yeah, that’d be interesting to know what happened.
Wait, was this years acceptance rate for transfers seriously 13%? Can someone please find me a source? I can’t find anything on it
woah why was it so competitive this year?
Have they given out regents’ scholarships yet?
@Oriolee Bruh… There’s no way the acceptance rate was that low?! I think UCLA was around that. But UCSD? No way it’d go from 50 something percent to 13%. I want to see some written proof. Where are these stats coming from?