<p>There are ATMs for Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, Wells Fargo, The Golden 1 Credit Union, and Bank of America. Wells Fargo has a slightly higher presence on campus (ATMs at the UCen and just off campus on Pardall). I wouldn’t say that there are a lot, but they are in pretty central locations.</p>
<p>Do you know anything about the economics department? My son got into Berkeley but is leaning towards UCSB a he thinks it would be a better balance between the social and the academic.</p>
<p>Can you comment on the school owned transfer apartments at all?</p>
<p>OK, anyone else PO’d about $13,109 for nine months? That’s over $1,456 per month to share a tiny room and eat cafeteria food. Are the dorms/dining commons run by a private outside company? If so, how do they justify these costs, a 6% increase from last year. It’s price gouging, as we don’t have a choice. 'Not like we’re not paying through the nose for tuition and fees as it is!!!</p>
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I’m currently a Business Economics major, but I don’t know how it compares to other economics majors in UC schools. It’s a pretty popular major on campus, and pre-major courses are curved in a way that makes admission into the major somewhat competitive. We use very popular textbooks in our upper-division econ classes (Varian’s Intermediate Microeconomics and Williamson’s Macroeconomics, for example), so I don’t know if the courses could differ all that much from other schools’. I could certainly see how other schools might use the same books and be much harder, though. In my opinion, the quarter system doesn’t suit a lot of upper-division econ classes that well, because it really does sacrifice the depth of the class material, from what I can tell.</p>
<p>I know some people who got rejected from Haas recently and declared econ at UC Berkeley, but I doubt they’re much worse off for it. On a related note, I’ve listed to UC Berkeley intermediate microeconomics courses (ECON 100A both at UCSB and UCB) on iTunes University, and it seems to be very similar stuff to what we do here. I’m guessing the testing is what mostly differs.</p>
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Financially speaking, I know they’re a pretty good deal. I don’t believe they’re as social as being out in IV or something like that. There was an article in the Nexus about living in Santa Ynez a while back, though it was probably a bit hyperbolic.
[University-Owned</a> Hell - Daily Nexus](<a href=“http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=18809]University-Owned”>http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=18809)</p>
<p>Then again, the people who I know have been most satisfied with living there are people who chose their roommates and had experience living with them already.</p>
<p>I have a question about Santa Barbara’s meal plan.</p>
<p>My brother goes to Cal Poly SLO, he had to buy a meal plan first year while living in the dorm. I’m going with the 10 meal/week plan with the SB dorms. But, with the Cal Poly meal plans they also had a certain amount of money to spend on other things? Like a credit card to use for meals during the rest of the week wherever they wanted to go.</p>
<p>Does UCSB does that too with the meal plans? Or do you have to use your own money? I read that they require the 10/14/19 meal plans but didn’t read anything else about the rest of the meals for freshman.</p>
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No, we don’t have that sort of “meals and meal-points” program. You can only use your meals in one of the four dining commons. You can’t use credits or anything toward, for example, the Panda Express on campus (or even the university-owned restaurants). </p>
<p>So yes, you would pay with cash/debit/credit for food anywhere outside the dining commons.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-santa-barbara/915547-what-time-dos-ucsb-store-close.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-santa-barbara/915547-what-time-dos-ucsb-store-close.html</a></p>
<p>know anything about it
what building in manzanita village is it in</p>
<p>It’s in La Cumbre house, one of the larger houses in the center of Manzanita Village. I really don’t know much about it, but I believe it does have a larger kitchen than most houses, which only have a sink, a vending machine, and a microwave (I lived in Gaviota before).</p>
<p>Do you have any information about the Summer Start program?
Specifically, is it worth going to? I haven’t had much luck finding a summer job or even volunteer work, so I’m considering UCSB’s Summer Start. ESA, I think they call it.
Are there a decent amount of students who attend it? What do you do for 6 weeks?</p>
<p>I was in it for the summer 2008 term. Cost-wise, it might be very slightly cheaper per unit than normal classes if you take 9 units (two normal courses, and the required 1-unit FSSP common course). </p>
<p>Socially, you do get the opportunity to meet a lot of people in a pretty short amount of time - the RAs are more focused on planning lots of activities and outings for you than they are during the normal school year, and you won’t be completely surprised by IV or anything when all the other freshmen come. You do get acquainted with the school much earlier than everyone else, in terms of dealing with professors as well as bureaucrats here.</p>
<p>I forgot the exact number, but there are enough students to fill up San Nicolas, so that’s at least several hundred people. Perhaps around 400.</p>
<p>In another thread, I mentioned that it’s a good idea to take pre-major courses for your major during FSSP, so if you can do that, FSSP is probably even more valuable. Grading doesn’t seem as hard during the summer, though that might just be because my classes met four days a week and there was a lot more repetition of class material. </p>
<p>If you’re angling to do UCSB in “LessThanThree [years],” it’s probably a lot more cost-effective to take courses at a community college and have them transfer here (see assist.org). The GPA won’t transfer, but the units will.</p>
<p>Hey, and if you’re looking for work, there’s always fast food. I’ve always wanted to say I did that for a summer, for some odd reason.</p>
<p>I’m definitely not worried about graduating in four years. Taking a 5th year wouldn’t bother me if I had to do it. So I’d be going to FSSP to meet people and get used to the campus, have something to do over the summer, (get away from my parents).</p>
<p>What about the comparison to the STEP program? I’d rather do the six week course but I thought I might as well ask about the two week program.</p>
<p>Are FSSP courses really honestly easier?</p>
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I don’t know much about STEP. I remember seeing random groups of people who looked like they were freshmen too and thinking, “Who the hell are they, and why do they walk around in such big groups?” I found out later. There were a few events where FSSP and STEP students got together - I remember a big dance in The Hub and a karaoke event in the SRB, specifically. As a side note, the demographics of each program seemed pretty different, too.</p>
<p>You do get units for doing FSSP (because you’re taking real classes), so I’d personally say that it’s time better spent. STEP may or may not be worth it, since the fee that you pay is based directly off your household income. FSSP has a more standard financial aid process. I guess STEP might be better too if you have other summer obligations.
Summer courses usually don’t have the kind of curve a course during the normal semesters may have, from what I’ve seen. For example, ECON 3A during fall, winter, and spring quarters may limit the number of As to 15%, but you might not find that sort of explicit limitation in a 3A course offered in the summer. I don’t know if that’s always true, but that’s the impression I get for some summer classes (generally econ ones)… I don’t know if the recent budget situation, or the goings-on at the Economics department has changed that for whatever reasons.</p>
<p>And since you’d take less units than you would during a normal quarter, you have more time to concentrate for the number of classes you do happen to take. On top of that, since the timetables of the courses are so compressed (six weeks for a class instead of twelve), it’s basically impossible to do as much work as you would during a normal class.</p>
<p>Yeh, majority of the people parties in SB since we have such a big social scene. Not one particular race or ethnicity are more quiet or don’t part. Don’t matter your black white purple or blue we all drink and party. In conclusion, yes asians do party it up over here.</p>
<p>SB has a intern program with the UCSB emergency medical response unit. You’ll be wrking with the ambulance what not. Definitely some unique hands on experience, I’m not in it but sounds pretty cool and looks good on your resume.</p>
<p>Basically this is how the Greek system is organized in SB. The major national fraternity house and sorority are governed by the </p>
<p>CPC Womens Sororities ( big ones) House 50 +
IFC Mens Fraternities ( big ones) house 50+
UFSC Culturally based Fraternities and Sororities ( Asian, latino based) around 25-35+
NPHC Primarily African-American based Fraternities and Sororities not being bias ( around 10) </p>
<p>The diversity ratio is getting better but in the greek system its pretty separated, IFC would not have an event with UFSC the cultural based ones. Maybe it will change in the future, but currently its divided. In conclusion, since there are not many blk students in General so the recruitment pool is very limited. Therefore the blk fraternity are very small of here( number wise). But you can always shop around in other fraternities and maybe end up in IFC or one of the multicultural frats. Good luck,</p>
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<p>Gonna have to disagree with you there. Very few people in my hall party. Most people upstairs don’t party. Sometimes I doubt whether or not the majority of UCSB students are partiers at all because it just doesn’t feel like it; I don’t associate with very many at all.</p>
<p>What hall are you in? A lot of people in my dorm (San Miguel) party.</p>