<p>Is the Santa Barbara area racially open-minded? Are the surrounding people accepting of someone who is my white? How common do you see interracial relationships? Reason I am asking is because the place where I live is very close minded and it is difficult living as someone who is colored.</p>
<p>You are out of state, correct? Did you already apply to UCSB? If yes, you have a long wait and a lot of time to consider your options after you hear from where you have been accepted. If you have not applied, it is almost certainly too late…</p>
<p>I’d say the university’s pretty accepting of race. I’ve had a few issues with homophobia though but overall, the campus is very tolerant.</p>
<p>I can’t speak on the interracial relationships side of the things, but the campus is general very friendly. I haven’t personally witnessed or run into any inequality issues.</p>
<p>we are very open minded! my different groups of friends have mixtures of all different races.</p>
<p>My son is in 2nd year as physics major but wanted to switch to mechanical engineering. He was given the auth code to get an engineering class this past quarter and got an A. He was not given the auth code to take the next engineering class for this quarter as the ME advisor said they had only 5 spots and those were given to student’s with the highest cum GPA in physics, engineering & math courses. So he and apparently ~25 other students were told that they would not be allowed to change to ME major. The advisor said that if he has heart set on ME, he should consider other schools.</p>
<p>Any recommendations on next steps for him? We are inclined to let him finish the school year, research other schools and get the apps done for fall transfer. Any recommendations on other schools for ME? We are thinking private, done with state schools. Advisor told him that transferring to another UC was very difficult, he would be considered after community college transfers. BTW his cum GPA after 4 quarters is about 3.6. Thanks in advance for any advice.</p>