<p>I'm currently attending a CCC and ucsb is one of my hopeful destinations to transfer to. While I've heard of countless fun success stories from people who were there as freshmans, I havn't heard much from transfer students. I'm looking for a school that combines a quality education along with an awesome social life and college experience (that I hopefully wont miss out on, even though I will not be there the first two years), and I feel UCSB suits me accordingly. To any UCSB transfer, I have a few questions.</p>
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<li><p>Where else were you accepted to (if you applied anywhere else) and what compelled you to attend UCSB?</p></li>
<li><p>What are the options for housing as a transfer and where did you end up (and how did you enjoy it obviously)? Why did you choose that choice of housing (assuming you had a choice) over the others? How were your roomates, if any?</p></li>
<li><p>Were events for transfer students frequent? and how successful were they in getting you accustomed to a new environment and meeting new people?</p></li>
<li><p>As a transfer student, were you still able to study and party and make a lot of new friends? I imagine that a lot of the fire of going crazy and outgoing is lost after freshman and sophomore year, but were you still able to have an enjoyable and memorable "college experience?"</p></li>
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<li><p>I got accepted into all the UC’s except for Berkeley. #1 reason I chose UCSB is that it has the best ChE program out of all the UC’s i got accepted into. Then I heard the people here are more sociable and friendly. Nice environment. You can bike to school easily (yes bikes are popular). It has IV, where theres a huge concentration of students, which makes it more of a college town. I mean a college town next to the beach and you can ride your bike to and around campus? What could be better? Downtown is also a plus, its beautiful and there are so many bars and clubs you can hang around at.</p></li>
<li><p>I was naive about housing. I got into San Raf, which was pretty neat (its pretty quite) but its a little overpriced in my opinion. I think better housing would be the apartments like Santa Ynez because I heard they give you higher priority for them next year while the dorms do not.</p></li>
<li><p>There were many of them. However, I did not go to many of them because you can actually learn a lot about the environment by hanging out with your fellow transfers. I mean they give you like almost a week before classes start so that you can get accostumed. Get to know other transfers or other people and discover things with them.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes, for sure. However, you might find the first quarter hard because it is no longer CC. So you might struggle to have both parties and good amount of studying during the first quarter. So I would recommend to take fewer units at that time. Get accostumed to the environment, get to know people and get that studying done. And then start taking as many classes as you want and you will be able to handle then (be wise about it).</p></li>
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<p>Cool, thanks for the response</p>
<p>Any other transfers have any input?</p>