@MYOS1634 I feel if I take another gap year or defer the age difference just seems pretty huge, maybe its just me. I spent the last 2 years travelling the globe with my own savings and now I’m back home. I’m first gen and since I’m the only person in my family history to make it this far I definitely want to break the streak.
How Will you pay for your cost of attendance?
@MYOS1634 parents! thank god
@GagasMom speaking of which, do you have any knowledge on how laid back UT and Austin is in general compared to Cali?
You were fortunate to have been admitted to UCSC as a non-resident since it has 97% residents (UCSB has 95% California residents).
Is surfing>academic opportunity?
Are you looking to relocate to CA post graduation from college?
You are already older than a traditional freshman, with greater personal travel experience, and I don’t think that you are going to have a “typical” frosh year anywhere.
People are leaving California in droves because of taxes and living expenses. Trust me, you’re not missing anything. I would just suck it up and go to UT-Austin. You’re job prospects are better in Texas anyway.
I don’t know where you get your information. I can’t imagine a UC the size of Santa Cruz not having a party scene, though I’m pretty sure Austin has no beaches. Santa Cruz is a very cool city.
Why not try to go to Santa Barbara City College which has both parties and beaches galore. Then you can transfer to UCSB and keep the same friends.
Santa Cruz has some legendary surfing spots that UCSB, so you’ve got that going for you.
(For those recommending SBCC, I’ve know a fair number of kids who tried that route. It doesn’t seem to work out, though it might be better for the OP who is slightly older and hopefully more mature to avoid the temptations that seem to sink 18 year old freshmen).
As the parent of an in state texas student who applied to UT for a degree in Psychology and was capped and would have said YES YES YES had she been given full admission. It is just mildly annoying that you, as an OOS student, are considering saying no because “UT has the party scene but lacks beaches”. WOW. I am guessing this was an issue that you should have considered prior to applying. Go to a Cali school and leave that UT spot to some kids who really wants it.
@labegg I apologize if I made it seem as though I was being ungrateful. All my life I lived on the beach so the change in environment makes me feel a little off. I applied to UT because it’s a great school, I’m just afraid I might miss the waves since I grew up around them.
You might miss the waves. But not taking this opportunity may lead you to miss a career
This thread just causes my head to spin. There is a part of me that thinks its fiction. Are you a young “Big Lebowski?” Do you go by the moniker “The Dude?”
It is life man. Austin is a great city! You can chill in Cali 3+ months a year. Texas isn’t prison man.