UCSB pre comm

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Santa Barbara
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Hi! I have to SIR today, so I need some help. I am a communications major (pre comm for ucsb). I know ucsb’s comm studied is one of their top majors, so what worries me is the ease of getting classes and graduating in four years. Also, you must keep a minimum 3.0 gpa to enter the comm major at UCSB. I did generally decent in high school (3.88 UW and 4.16 w, 2060 SAT) but I was wondering if UCSB might be too challenging academically. I don’t want to fail out of the major.

For SLO, its liberal arts studies and communications are generally less well known, but the classes seem easier and more job oriented. My problem is that at cal poly it is too hard to get needed classes and their four year grad rate is very low.
At this rate, SLO and UCSB are priced the same. Which one do you think is best?

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If you have credits from AP classes it can help you tremendously for registering for classes (more credits = earlier registration period). I can’t really speak on behalf of 4-year graduation rate or how easy the classes are, but I’ve taken a look at the requirements for the premajor (first 2 years), and there are only 4 classes 20 units (one of which is a really easy stats class). A lot of people here (including myself) major in sciences that require up to 77 units in the first 2 years. So I’d say you shouldn’t worry about that. Anyway, good luck in your decision, those are two great schools!