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University of California - Santa Barbara - The Best & WorstCollege Prowler0.00
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UC Santa Barbara? FactsBest Things
- The laid-back beach atmosphere.
- Lots of opportunities to get involved in different things.
- There are concerts at the Santa Barbara Bowl, the Hub on campus, and all of the student bands performing for free in Isla Vista on the weekends.
- There are lots of good food options.
- You can ride your bike literally anywhere.
- The weather: you can almost always go outside and play.
- You never have homework over winter or spring break, because the quarter ends right before both.
- The friendly, knowledgeable faculty.
- Good-looking people that wear swimsuits and tank tops year-round . . . sometimes you feel like you are living at a resort.
- It's the genuine college experience that most people want and expect.
Worst Things
- There is no football team.
- The administrative staff is really impersonal - nobody really makes an effort to help students, and they have to be responsible for double-checking their own credits. It takes a lot of effort to figure out where to go and what to do.
- You don't finish the school year until mid-June.
- Isla Vista has bad parking and loud partying.
- Nobody wants a relationship.
- There is a high cost of living.
- The really bad landlords and no rent control in Isla Vista.
- The streets are frequently dirty and full of trash after weekend nights.
- Restaurants and movie theatres downtown close too early.
- Cops are heavy-handed on ticketing.
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