When they say UC Santa Barbara is a party school...

[engineeringfashionista]

<p>What exactly does this mean?
I'm very socially outgoing at my high school and am down to party 2x a week in college, maybe 3x a week once in a while, but I hear stories of some university students getting drunk 3-5x a week and that's not something I really want. </p>

<p>Does a big party school mean that a larger percentage of the population parties and that the parties are huge and wild?
Or does this mean that alot of the students party 3-5x a week.</p>

<p>I'm okay with the former but not so much with the latter.</p>

<p>I understand I have control over how much I decide to participate in parties, but I want to be a social outgoing person, and I dont want to be denying invites from my friends to go to parties on the weekdays if that makes sense. I dont want to be introverted compared to my friends.</p>

<p>Also, I feel that at some major party universities ( ex. Illinois ) It's kind of out in the middle of no where so the only social things to do there are sports and drinking. Now, I understand sports arnt as huge at UCSB, but people commonly socialize and hang out doing other things besides drinking and smokeing, right?</p>

[tasmom]

<p>You have to understand that Santa Barbara City College students converge upon Isla Vista on the weekends and events such as Halloween and Floatopia. Thus, the parties aren’t all UCSB students. I would say a good portion of them are the city college kids. If you want to maintain good grades at UCSB, you can’t be partying 3-5x per week. I think this is an old reputation that keeps being perpetuated through time. </p>

[tasmom]

<p>BTW I’m a UCSB alumnus and a current Santa Barbara resident.</p>