#UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) (2023-2024)

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smoky scaffold
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but this school is realllllly nice guys

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i promise

sturdy grove
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ucla is purely academic 💀 ??

smoky scaffold
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it's a wonderful beautiful place

fast river
smoky scaffold
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i havent felt the bay area stress vibe at all here

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which i miss lowkey

smoky scaffold
sturdy grove
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it's crazy how adrenaline is a drug

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are ccs people normal or weird

smoky scaffold
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ccs doesnt have a history thing

sturdy grove
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in ur opinion

fast river
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do u recommend ccs based on anything u’ve heard abt it

smoky scaffold
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ccs people are smart

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they're pretty cool

sturdy grove
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are they like smart good way or smart smelly no shwoer way

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ok

smoky scaffold
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id definitely recommend ccs if you get in

sturdy grove
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🙏 tahts good to hear

fast river
smoky scaffold
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you also get priority registration im pretty sure

smoky scaffold
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CS?

fast river
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Math

smoky scaffold
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math

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no probably not

sturdy grove
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in house game theory course lowk sounds like a vibe

smoky scaffold
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ucla math is crazy right

fast river
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yeah its great

sturdy grove
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i heard applied math in particular is incred

fast river
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but its not like imma get terry tao as an advisor

sturdy grove
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there

smoky scaffold
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do you wanna do grad school

fast river
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yes very much

smoky scaffold
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uh

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i wouldnt know

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sorry

fast river
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aight

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ty

smoky scaffold
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if you are truly unable to decide

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you should look for UCSB math grads who are in grad school

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and contact them

fast river
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i c

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im heavily leaning towards ucla rn

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just cuz of quality of life there

smoky scaffold
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you should probably go to ucla

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imo

fast river
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how are the dorms at ucsb

sturdy grove
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would u know if there's any finance oriented stuff on campus...

smoky scaffold
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bad dorms

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no guaranteed housing

fast river
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food?

smoky scaffold
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ucla food is 100x better

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ive tried it

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ucla food is like

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fine dining

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lol

fast river
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LOL

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olympic level

smoky scaffold
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it is insane

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they had steak and hand made pastries

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when i went there

fast river
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thats amazing

smoky scaffold
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it was ridiculous

sturdy grove
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this is a horrible decision to have to make for me

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ccs or ucla

smoky scaffold
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townie what major r u

fast river
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townie what aspect of ccs

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is appealing to u

smoky scaffold
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i dont think that you will regret either decision you make

sturdy grove
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i like that it's smaller courses for the 100 & 200 level courses, and then freedom to do grad level courses as i wish

smoky scaffold
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also keep in mind that you will be able to get a higher gpa at ucsb for grad school applications

fast river
smoky scaffold
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very likely

fast river
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i asked some people

sturdy grove
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likewise the faculty mentoring & increased opportunities for research

smoky scaffold
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grad classes are easy everywhere

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they just give out As

fast river
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they said u just fill out a form and get a prof to give perms

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no i mean

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ez to take them

smoky scaffold
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yeah same here tho

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i took a grad class second quarter

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fresh year

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totally worth

fast river
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no but townie said its like smth good abt ccs but its not specific to ccs

sturdy grove
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i'm the latter tbh

smoky scaffold
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you probably just need to get to know your prof

fast river
smoky scaffold
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ucla kids are sweats tho

fast river
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not in terms of difficulty

smoky scaffold
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and are weird

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ive met some fucking weird ass ucla kids

fast river
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i dont know the difficulty

sturdy grove
smoky scaffold
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no one at ucsb that weird

smoky scaffold
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thats what i meant by that

sturdy grove
smoky scaffold
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ucsb will be way more chill and easier

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and you will probably have more fun

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but it's not as prestigious

fast river
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o yeah apparently summa cum laude at UCLA college of letters and sciences is 3.992 or smth

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saw this on reddit

smoky scaffold
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holy shit

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so just a 4.0

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there is no way to get a 3.992 lol

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right

sturdy grove
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it seems easier to stand out as opposed to ucla. but i can't lie ucla sounds better in a lot of ways... food wise... prestige... housing

fast river
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i guess u can get 1 B

smoky scaffold
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maybe like one A minus in all of college

fast river
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idrk

smoky scaffold
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no b

fast river
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oh A- yeah

sturdy grove
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good lord

latent plover
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ucsb cooking me

fast river
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sorry im just too used to no signs on grades

latent plover
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bye bye

fast river
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cuz my hs doesnt do it

smoky scaffold
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3.927 3.969 3.992

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wow

sturdy grove
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mine neither

smoky scaffold
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the grade inflation must be crazy there

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holy shit

sturdy grove
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at UCLA?????

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i've heard it all now

smoky scaffold
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yeah

sturdy grove
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grade deflated grade inflated

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oh lord

smoky scaffold
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no it clearly is inflated

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if 3.992 is summa

sturdy grove
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depends on major

smoky scaffold
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ucsb is hella inflated and it's 3.97 here

sturdy grove
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for business no shit

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i'm worried about MATH 😭

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good lord deflating math is evil and cruel

smoky scaffold
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ive heard that ucla actually isnt that bad lol

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from other people

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i forgot about that

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like it's really inflated

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berkeley summa is 3.986

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how the fuck is ucsb lower than that

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???

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these berkeley fucks lying

sturdy grove
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berkeley is not a real place

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🙏

smoky scaffold
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i actually hate berkeley kids

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goodnight

sturdy grove
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me too. i pretend it doesn't exist despite living perhaps 12 miles away

smoky scaffold
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lmfao

sturdy grove
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i don't want a school that's gonna demolish my gpa should i go the grad school route but also i need a fair amt of prestige for quant (should grad school go poorly) so

smoky scaffold
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LMFAO

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uh

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i would go to grad school before quant

sturdy grove
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tbh ur right.

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i think they'd only take mit undergrads

muted sage
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Waitlisted lmao

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but I got accepted into UCSD and UCD??????????

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I'm convinced this is a borderline lottery at this point

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gg

torpid totem
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I am just convinced the chances are not independent

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I am an CCS admittee(is that a word) here, rejected by uci and sd without waitlists

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Having admissions from all four schools of the same tier just hits their yield rates like a hammered nail and they don’t want that

hollow python
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How’d I get Berkeley early but reject ucsb 💀

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I’m so lost

restive ether
neat hamlet
hollow python
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Do they yield oos?

spice haven
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They do not yield protect

torpid totem
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I just re-logged into my portal

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what does this mean

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does this really mean I can be "not accepted by CCS" ???

torpid totem
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bro imagine in like 2 days CCS sends me a rejection letter 💀

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what does this mean

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GUYS?

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I don't wanna be reveling for absolutely nil PLZ

naive kite
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i believe u got into letters & science but ur ccs app still isn't out yet?

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so even if u dont get into ccs you'll be in letters & science

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you can always apply again to ccs in future quarters also

torpid totem
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no this is what it looks like on my ucsb portal

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(name covered for privacy

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it says I "got in" except it doesn't say that I got in

naive kite
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uhhh not sure 😭 probably contact ccs admissions people

toxic kelp
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The tension in their insta vids is unbareable

toxic kelp
torpid totem
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ok news so my friend who got rejected from CCS computing still has his app on the ccs app website to be complete/in review

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the same as mine

naive kite
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ah that makes sense, hang in there! people in ccs will be way more helpful if they r here

torpid totem
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what makes sense

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alr I am probably gonna contact ccs ppl

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which email do you reckon I contact them with

naive kite
naive kite
torpid totem
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this doesn't make sense to me

naive kite
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dw about it 💀

torpid totem
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@sturdy grove I think you emailed the faculty, a member of them

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what did they respond you with?

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dw I will def be here when u wake up

molten nymph
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bruh

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I got rejected

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that's actually impossible what?

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didn't the chancellor recepetion thing mean you were accepted?

stiff geyser
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I have basically never seen this happen before

torpid totem
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HOW

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If anyone gets the ccs email please lmk what it looks like

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I thought it comes a few hrs after the ucsb decision

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Now it’s almost an entire day

fast river
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There might be some glitch

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I saw someone on Reddit rejected after REGENTS

torpid totem
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Bruh

torpid totem
sturdy grove
sturdy grove
torpid totem
sturdy grove
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a class or two while i visit ucsb

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bc for me it's like if i'm surrounded by usamo medalists who were born knowing everything ever then i'll feel incred shitty if i'm the only one who has to work for it

deft root
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Wait guys is ucsb out

cedar rover
deft root
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Ill. Check later

torpid totem
sturdy grove
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that's true to an extent but if they're dicks about being more intelligent or smth then i'd rather not go

neat hamlet
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its here

neat hamlet
torpid totem
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I got the email

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congrats to everyone

fast river
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I got it too

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GG congrats everyone

torpid totem
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bruh what is this timin 💀

crude crane
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does ccs reject people?

neat hamlet
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yes

torpid totem
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they do?

fast river
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they cant just accept everyone

maiden haven
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If you’re not gonna go here plz decline ur offfer get me off the waitlist

spiral spire
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low

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we will not tolerate dlg slander here

smoky scaffold
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hello fellow beach stoner

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dlg is actually horrendous @spiral spire

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there is no way you're a defender

spiral spire
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at least the ice cream there is >> other dining halls

smoky scaffold
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who's eating ice cream on a regular basis

spiral spire
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bro i get it all the time

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ill literally be there in an hour eating a hamburger, fries, dr pepper, singular taco, and cookie dough ice cream

smoky scaffold
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true stoner behavior

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@spiral spire how do you know @mortal wigeon

molten nymph
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CE

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I’m so confused why I didn’t get in

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Should I contact AO?

mortal wigeon
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felpix is in verified thats why

spiral spire
smoky scaffold
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interesting

sturdy grove
fathom gazelle
molten nymph
molten nymph
fathom gazelle
molten nymph
fathom gazelle
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also if you feel like it's urgent you can call directly

molten nymph
fathom gazelle
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they're still open, and you don't need to wait that long

molten nymph
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oh, look

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they've responded

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hmmmm

fathom gazelle
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what'd they say?

molten nymph
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apparently

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the letter is not a guarentee of admission

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as noted on the faq

fathom gazelle
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what, that's pretty weird

molten nymph
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yeah

fathom gazelle
molten nymph
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why the hell would they invite me to this thing if I wasn't even accepted

fathom gazelle
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are they keeping track of who's attending the reception?

molten nymph
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should I go and ask the chancellor?

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Chancellor: Yall are admitted

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Me: Not meeeee

fathom gazelle
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if they rejected you solely bc you didn't go that'd be pretty stupid

molten nymph
fathom gazelle
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idk what to say :/

sturdy grove
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that's fucked up omfg

molten nymph
cyan shore
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yeah i got invited but didn’t go and still got in too

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that’s extremely strange

fast river
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Same

stiff geyser
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If you get the invite, regardless if you attend or not, you should be an auto admit based on previous year data

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So for them to reject you after that invite is extremely strange

junior coyote
molten nymph
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ny

junior coyote
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O

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Were you just rejected? Not waitlisted?

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That’s rlly weird

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I went to the one in ca and the admissions rep specifically said that everyone was in

molten nymph
junior coyote
fathom gazelle
molten nymph
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I have a thing that day tho

fathom gazelle
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if you're serious about going to sb then you should go and ask

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oh

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best of luck, then

molten nymph
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yeah

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my schools forced me to go

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isef prelims

junior coyote
# molten nymph yeah

You can maybe appeal ucsb rejection and bring up the chancellors thing if u go

torpid totem
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is there an ucsb /28 discord server or smth

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if there is lmk

torpid totem
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Hold up

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I know this question is probably so stupid it is entirely unbecoming of a ccs admitted student

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But like can I still redeem credit hours here with my aps

fathom gazelle
torpid totem
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thx

ripe herald
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how is ucsb for cs?

torpid totem
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good

torpid totem
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like how many credits do people take per semester

fathom gazelle
torpid totem
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how many classes per semester

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for the average above-average student that lurks on a2c

fathom gazelle
naive kite
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most ppl i know will 4, 3 is typically for first quarter/harder classes, some do 5 but u will have no life outside of school

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rly varies by quarter workload/how far you are from graduating

craggy galleon
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Hey guys, does anyone know the AR for the UCSB waitlist? Thx!

junior coyote
spiral spire
fathom gazelle
spiral spire
spiral spire
fathom gazelle
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I see

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you got a lot of freetime?

spiral spire
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you’ll be done with most pre reqs by second year midway if you’ve the ap credit

spiral spire
fathom gazelle
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that's neat

spiral spire
fathom gazelle
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yea

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how are internship opportunities

spiral spire
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i’ve a job at c1 this symker

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summer

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have a freshman friend going swe at panasonic

fathom gazelle
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freshman internship? nice

spiral spire
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know juniors with nvidia, citadel swe, google

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caveat is that the citadel guy was a usaco plat in hs, does icpc in college

spiral spire
fathom gazelle
spiral spire
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bc ucsb is very industry minded in coursework and academia minded in resources

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intro to cs 1 and 2 are c++ grind leetcode style classes

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there’s a second year research program for cs majors specifically

fathom gazelle
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I see, yea I'm doing compe

spiral spire
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know many people in that

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bs + ms is popular as well

fathom gazelle
spiral spire
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100-150 cs majors per year

spiral spire
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i’m gonna do a humanities phd kek

fathom gazelle
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neat

fathom gazelle
spiral spire
fathom gazelle
spiral spire
fathom gazelle
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yup

spiral spire
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hmm

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depends on how social you are

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have you visited campus

fathom gazelle
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for sd yeah, planning to visit sb this break

spiral spire
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deltopia is coming up lol

fathom gazelle
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what's deltopia?

spiral spire
spiral spire
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see the beach

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visit HFH

fathom gazelle
spiral spire
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how much can you handle

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will your parents be there

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2 very important questions

fathom gazelle
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depends? and no

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wdym by the first question

spiral spire
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come on by

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i’ll save a seltzer

fathom gazelle
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haha alr

spiral spire
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checkout the campus, if you vibe, you’ll know it

lost rapids
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Accepted students at CCS does your admissions portal still say "Application Complete / in Review"

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I havent gotten a rejection/admission letter from them yet. I emailed them and they said that "Application Complete / in Review" means its still being reviewed and i should check again later

craggy galleon
velvet surge
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15% of accepted students choose to go

craggy galleon
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Srsly?

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So how do they have any students 😭?

junior coyote
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Not a dumb question btw nw nw

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I’m assuming the waitlist acceptance rate will be high as well then bc of the yield rate being low

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But depends how many they waitlist ofc

spiral spire
spiral spire
craggy galleon
spiral spire
spiral spire
craggy galleon
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O ok

spiral spire
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they constantly build new housing too lol

spiral spire
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well except for maybe r, m, and sc

craggy galleon
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Mb girl I didn’t know allat😭

spiral spire
craggy galleon
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True lol

torpid totem
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bruh are you serious 💀

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that doesn't sound like a good place to live

spiral spire
torpid totem
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is this good by ucsb standards

spiral spire
foggy quest
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Yo Feplix how's ur experience been at ucsb as a cs major @spiral spire

spiral spire
crude crane
molten nymph
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There are powerbanks apparently at today’s reception

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Also

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I asked the chancellor about my denial

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Apparently it was a mistake

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Sooo I got into UCSb

spiral spire
junior coyote
fathom gazelle
fathom gazelle
hearty socket
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you were better anyways

spiral spire
torpid totem
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is there a ucsb admit discord server or what

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nah?

crude crane
cyan shore
cursive owl
spiral spire
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social life is great, environment is top tier

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access to research is plentiful

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i just don't like cs anymore so my opinion is tilted lol

spiral spire
# cursive owl why?

curriculum is very industry focused and most people you meet will either be speedrunning their degree or gunning for stanford graduate school

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it's not a competitive environment by any means, just one with very clear goals in its student-body.

torpid totem
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does anyone know what ccs life is actually like

fathom gazelle
torpid totem
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I only know prospective students from this server

spiral spire
spiral spire
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if you want to do CS (and got accepted for it and not say CE or data sci), it'd be a great place to study

spiral spire
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have you already committed?

torpid totem
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most likely

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imagine my changes at stanford 💀

spiral spire
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i'm personally a fan, but not everyone is

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maybe 1/2 of the cs majors are shut ins?

fathom gazelle
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I wanted to do ce more than cs so

fathom gazelle
spiral spire
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don't know much about the CE department

ember mica
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anyone going to open house on the 13th?

shy raptor
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does anyone know how easy it is to transfer from ce to cs?

spiral spire
restive flint
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is there a class of 2028 discord server

foggy quest
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does anyone know if u can change into ccs for computing after you commit

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like i didnt know what it was but i still wanna do it, so can i submit and app rn or in the future of my time there? if so i would prob choose it over gtech which is the choice im making rn

torpid totem
spiral spire
craggy galleon
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Good evening everyone✊🏻 I am just writing to remind you that if you have been accepted to UCSB but know you won’t be going there, then plz plz withdraw ur application!! There are ppl who rly want to get off the waitlist 💔💔💔 i appreciate it & tysm

torpid totem
torpid totem
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is there a discord server for here

torpid totem
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hey yo so does anyone here know if you can access the SIR after submission

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like there is a code for it but idk what to do

spiral spire
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just join the edu hub

torpid totem
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Yes

torpid totem
spiral spire
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login to your email

torpid totem
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How do I sign in to my ucsb email

slender crater
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is ucsb food rly that bad meltingsob

spiral spire
slender crater
neat hamlet
spiral spire
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😭

spiral spire
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dining hall is okay

slender crater
slender crater
wintry lotus
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how's sds and econ&acct at ucsb

spiral spire
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econ&acct is okay, many job ops

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like 1/2 of the sds want to switch to cs anyways

wintry lotus
maiden raptor
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econ and econ dept feels very accounting focused do yall know if it is? or how recruitment/career stuff is w it?

spiral spire
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there's pure econ and econ&acct

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most people doing pure econ tend to double w something else

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recruiting is okay? nothing special, but certainly a higher non-target if you're doing trad finance

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bain sometimes comes? ik EY, pwc, are pretty common internships for audit/tax

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i've heard barclays, morgan stanley, jp morgan thrown around as known econ internships for juniors

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depending on specifics i can refer you to campus orgs related to your pre-professional interests

maiden raptor
maiden raptor
maiden raptor
vocal moss
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just got off ucsbs waitlist gang

ember mica
wintry lotus
vocal moss
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hey guys how many person is it per room

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at ucsb

wintry lotus