<p>DS accepted to both UCSB and Davis for Econ/Accounting/Business. He seems to favor UCSB because of the location. Haven’t visited either yet but any insight as to things to consider, etc… Also, still wating on decisions from McGill and Georgetown. Accepted to OXY, USD, Santa Clara Univ but cost is probably not worth it.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Davis has a great Econ program. It’s located in a really pretty, quaint agricultural college town and people are veryyyyy nice and accommodating. People do get bored after a while, but college is what you make of it. You can get a job/internship, which isn’t that hard especially because UCD is basically student-run. And there are a lot of fun co-curricular/extracurricular activities available.</p>
<p>UCSB’s location is absolutely beautiful. There are a lot of parties, but their educational programs are just as great as UCD’s. The people are nice too, but I don’t really get the same friendly/accommodating vibe like I do at UCD. Maybe it’s just me lol. But UCSB is a great school.</p>
<p>However, if you’re looking for a college that is easy to focus in with little distractions, UCD is the place to go. Everyone is very studious. :)</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>I know the Econ program at UCSB is very well thought of, and that the big accounting firms recruit there, but likely they do at Davis as well. He should visit both and see which one appeals to him most!</p>
<p>Both schools have great Econ programs. The big accounting firms and management consultant firms recruit from both. UC Davis offers a more well-rounded college experience (traditional college town, D1 sports, tons of intramural sports teams, unbelievable rec center, new dorms and pool). The UCSB experience is heavily heavily heavily sprinkled with parties, drugs and drinking. All college kids party – don’t get me wrong. But it is over the top at UCSB. </p>
<p>@Living61 the youtubes are over the top, but the ones that are clearly are designed to be over the top party tapes created by who knows who (given a lot of the partying is by city college and out of town folks). Internet fantasies and reality differ. You don’t get the serious students UCSB gets without a primary focus on education, for most of them. Many aren’t even into the partying, but the social life at UCSB is abundant for everyone, partiiers and non-partiers. UCSB also has a college town and from my experience and my niece’s very recent experience, it is pretty much the classic well rounded college experience. Granted, it doesn’t have a football team, but it does have a truly excellent soccer team and a student tradition of throwing tortillas on the field for goals - I don’t think UCSB students feel they don’t have a well rounded experience. And of course, the university is on the beach, so they have that, as well.</p>
<p>It appears from your other posts that you are a high school student interested in the University of Miami and Tulane, maybe Wake Forest. It appears your perspective of UCSB is picked up off of rumor, not experience. As for me, I am an alumn with a niece who recently graduated from UCSB, is this year graduating from medical school and will be going to residency in her first choice practice area – surgery. She didn’t get the location she wanted most, which would have been back to Santa Barbara, but she will be back east at a hospital connected with an Ivy League university, so I assume that diminishes her disappointment.</p>
<p>I can’t speak as much to the Econ departments, and I like Davis AND UCSB (my twins will likely end up one at each) but implying the UCSB social experience is largely drugs and drinking is really too much.</p>
<p>To the OP, UCSB’s Spring Insight is on the 12th of April, for new admit visits and Davis is having a Decision Day this weekend if you want to visit then, the information to register is on the web pages. Of course you can visit any time, but they are particularly set up for entering freshmen at those times.</p>
<p>I live 30 minutes from UCSB and am very familiar with the school with plenty of good friends who attend. Friends who don’t drink, friends who don’t want to drink and friends who do. Yes, you can avoid it – but the culture hovers over the school. And again, every school has the piece of the population who parties. I have just had two friends leave because of it so I am probably more sensitive to it. But I could list 20 other schools where the binge drinking is crazy. Clearly UCSB is a top school with serious students given the stats it takes to get accepted. </p>
<p>If you have friends who left because of it I am surprised but do acknowledge your data points. We have a lot of family who live in Santa Barbara, several of whom have gone to school there, and it is a running joke with us that the eager videos are created by people hoping to be associated with such a fantasy, not by actual students. I live in Los Angeles so am not quite as close, but as a local you should also know that a lot of the people at the big parties most typically thought of are not actually from the university. Your comment is the first time I have ever heard of someone leaving the school for partying, though. A lot of students aren’t into that and my niece was one of them, but they don’t generally find the existence of partying in Isla Vista to hamper their own experience. </p>
<p>Wrong. My sister goes to UCSB. She loves it there. She is not a party animal. She studies Econ over there. She said there are not many parties as there used to be, but some. Davis has parties too, but then again…what college doesn’t? UCSB has one of the greatest Econ majors wheareas Davis doesn’t even have that much of a good business program. My sister even chose UCSB over UCD. It’s her 3rd year, about to go in her 4th. She loves the environment. As long as you are with studious people, you’re fine. </p>