<p>help!!!! I love them both. I'm pretty sure had i been admitted to usc in the fall i would be choosing that...but the spring makes everything confusing. $$ is a concern, but not a deal breaker. (Btw..at USC I'm an International Relations major and at UCSB I'm global studies)
Any advice would be helpful.</p>
<p>Personally I would not take spring admission if I was satisfied with one of my other options. When school starts is when all the frosh are looking to make friends and meet new people. By spring semester the groups in the dorms have jelled; people have made friends in class and in the dorms, have a crew of buddies they eat lunch and dinner with in the dining hall, etc. You’ll be the “new kid”. And from what I’ve heard the football games (which are in the fall) are big bonding times for frosh as everyone goes to the games. Of course it doesn’t mean you can’t make good friends and build a group starting 2nd semester; you need to factor in how sociable you are in deciding whether this matters to you.</p>
<p>Starting spring semester can be a bit bumpier academically, too. Depending on your major you may be taking classes that are year-long sequences – for example Math 1A and 1B. Colleges will still offer the 1A class spring semester but you won’t have much choice in when to take it if they only have one section, as opposed to the fall semester when they probably had 10 1A sections to choose from. And all your fellow students will have figured out the unwritten little things that make school go easier – how to use office hours, what tends to be on tests, where to study, where things are on campus.</p>
<p>I’m not saying any of this is insurmountable, but think it is something worth considering.</p>
<p>USC is in the ghetoooooo (i know someone is going to defend this). My mom works in DTLA (I visit at least once a week) and you do not want to walk around that area at night (except the staples center/La convention center area). Everything pretty much shuts down around 4-5 in downtown before sunset and the streets are empty - it’s kind of spooky actually. This may not be the case in the immediate area of the campus but it is if you venture out a bit further. </p>
<p>I guess it just depends on what you want. USC is obviously a huge sports school, huge greek life (negative to me), it’s in LA so you will need a car for sure. UCSB is more isolated - about 10 miles from Downtown SB lives in it’s own world (isla vista) and it seems like the true collegetown. </p>
<p>Personally, after living in LA for the past 4 years I want to get away for a while… and if you really love them both I wouldn’t go for a spring admit… unless you really like usc over ucsb.</p>
<p>Going to get UCSB answers on a UCSB forum.</p>
<p>Thnks Everyone! And yeah I realize I will prob get sb answers here, so I’ll see what USC says haha</p>