Re: GB PHR-803T HD-DVD SLEDS [#2] LINK UP BUY NOW!
airy52 said:
pullbangdead, about 4 or 5 of my friends are planning to try to go to ucsb. They are going to go to the city college then transfer over to UCSB because they either wont get in or cant afford it. Do you think this is a good idea? and do you like it there? They dont know what they want to major in yet.
I don't know from personal experience, but I have heard that going to Santa Barbara City College for a while is a very popular route to get to UCSB if you can't right out of high school, and I've heard of people doing it because of grades and because of money. UCSB does seem to have a liking for SBCC, and I've heard it's a very good city college relative to others, but again,I don't know from personal experience, just what I've heard. I've even heard people who had marginal grades and didn't quite get in that the admissions department at UCSB told them to go to SBCC, and then they would probably get in later (and these are the people deciding admissions, afterall). So I've heard the same things they have, at least. I'm not from here, and didn't do my undergrad at UCSB (I'm a graduate student at UCSB now), so my experience in that is limited. Graduate admissions basically come down to the department, and materials is a small major, so the admission process is a lot different overall.
As far as specifically saving money by doing that, eh, I don't know. Santa Barbara is a REALLY expensive place to live, and that won't change no matter which school you're at. And the cost of the schools, I really have no idea. I have looked absolutely zero at what school itself (tuition, fees) costs at either school, UCSB or SBCC. And even what I would look at for me, I'm a graduate AND I'm out of state, so those both add $$$ to the bill. (But I ignore the costs. Since I'm a graduate student in one of the leading groups of its kind in the country, they pay for everything, so I don't have to worry about it. Graduate school rocks, at least in top engineering programs that have the money to pay you for it).
And majors, yeah, I don't know what to advise there. I loved and still love materials science as my undergraduate and my graduate degrees, but UCSB doesn't offer undergraduate degrees in materials. But engineering was always the way to go for me, and I recommend it to others as well. With no materials available, I probably would have been ECE and tried to get in with the professors in ECE that focus more on devices and processing, and electronic materials (there's a lot of overlap there). In fact, a lot of ECE professors here have joint appointments in both materials and ECE. Same for physics, chem, etc. But really, do what you love and something that you can do for the rest of your life. For example, you may love psychology, but unless you plan on going to a lot of school and becoming a professor or a practicing psychologist, don't do it. Do something you love, that you can get a job in and be happy with.
It's not a thread derail if the groupbuy is over, is it?
and had a tennis match at 3, so that's all I had time for, sorry. I will ship the rest of the sleds out for sure! Thanks everyone.
