College Tour: UC Santa Barbara

[@not_rly_nolan]

Also forgot to mention that you’ll share a room with 7 people in those beach houses unless you can afford 7k a month for the entire room 😅. It is an awesome school though, proud to be a Gaucho 😊

[@MrZachgonz]

My classmate was living in a home on DP with *28* other students in it.

[@dandar4843]

@@MrZachgonzjust coming in here to let people know this comment is not hyperbole. It is common to see Oceanside houses with 25+ people living in them and rent $30k+

[@davidterrell1856]

Lmao more like 3k for your own room but yeah

[@bpark707]

Im a local. SB can be kinda fun outside of IV but there’s a lot of dickheads but also a lot of cool people. My favorite part about it is the weather and how close you are to both the beach and mountains

[@frogedoge-g1u]

me tooooo

[@Bryce-nq9ki]

me too

[@Mr-Bob1]

Me too

[@Whodoesntlikehotdougs]

Bro I swear to god the e-bike kids suck

[@mercedes4202]

would not recommend oceanside Del Playa "having the beach as ur backyard" sounds nice until you see how the cliffs are eroding, lil landslides all the time, and balconies are getting fenced off bc it's just too damn dangerous to be on that unstable edge.

[@frogedoge-g1u]

i think someone fell off the cliffs last year too

[@dersegavas6794]

@@frogedoge-g1u3 people in the last year have fallen

[@SRFishing805]

@@frogedoge-g1ufell off by Goleta beach too. Was fishing on the pier when a couple sitting on the edge fell

[@Fairycircles-dz5qf]

Real, it would also be ridiculously expensive

[@nicohana7308]

At least once a year someone falls off of those cliffs.

[@ryanroland6426]

The city college is the best city college as well, fantastic auto tech program and the first ever under water welding program as well. Santa Barbara is great! Also santa barbara city college is literally right on the beach

[@twiinnkkllee659]

Most people don't actually go to parties. And it is an amazing school where people learn a lot. Not mention it's beautiful

[@sasharbarnes]

Speak for yourself, I partied hard and studied hard there and that was what most people did😊❤

[@duster805]

Is that sarcasm? Lol

[@breezyseng]

​@@sasharbarnes you're GORGEOUS ❤

[@Brucey69]

It’s was more of a party school 20 years ago. Now Still lots of parties but UCSB is better know for its academics

[@adamdemars8729]

Going into my senior year and have never been to a party. Not my thing and I know plenty of people who don't as well

[@evanflick20]

Love SB it’s beautiful

[@Yoyo-sy5kl]

We have 9 Noble Laureattes in the school. Its an amazing research focused school. The party school name is overdone. We have the strongest Engineering departments in California. As well as Physics and Chemistry.

[@canines]

Yup. I love it here.

[@alanangel1763]

My dream college senses I'm from Santa Barbara ❤❤❤❤ go gauchos ❤❤❤

[@EllaBanua-q2u]

It's beautiful

[@annalivingtv]

This is not everything you need to know. The nearest target is 10 min by car, 20 by bus, and groceries in iv are upcharged. Rent is also exponentially more expensive than anywhere else and its clearly directly targetting students who have nowhere else to go. I look at apartments in seattle to imagine what affordability is no joke. Landlords are crap here and try taking advantage of students to charge them exorbitant fees. Parties can be pretty gatekeepy and the school is trying to prevent people from charging for parties or restricting all of them but its hard to stop people from requiring a groupme to get in. And if you’re unattractive guys will make you feel like walking trash here. They wont let u in parties and a girl i know parked in front of a frat and they vandalized her car and left a note calling her ugly and disgusting

[@WOLF10139]

A few things: That big party day was known as Flotopia, and used to take place on the beach, but the college kids would leave it so trashed, that it was banned on the beach. It was the #1 HIV positive University for a few concurrent years. Food and cafes are not all over campus. There is food all around Isla Vista, but not the campus. They have a Panda Express though. Isla Vista is an unincorporated part of Goleta. The houses on the beach front side of Del Playa rd. are crumbling into the ocean because of the substanial erosion. People fall off and die on the cliff on Del Playa all the time. That tunnel is creepy at night.

[@MrZachgonz]

There’s a decent amount of cafes within a relatively small campus. There’s probably at least 5 just on campus.

[@jakemcbride9414]

Everything said here is true

[@Anthony-nd2in]

There is food at the ucen, the arbor, coral tree cafe, and courtyard cafe as well as an additional small coffee and snack stand near Campbell.

[@Laser_B0ss]

No it is called deltopia

[@kazoosc]

@@Laser_B0ss it was created as Floatopia -- a massive beach and floatie party at beginning of 2004 Spring semester. the county changed it to the "Deltopia" block party in 2010 due to the attendance and beach clean up required

[@anjieeee]

such a misconception of it being huge on parties there’s strict rules for parties. it may have been a party school 20 years ago but compared to my friends at other csu unis, they party way more.

[@E621-c9x]

I live here. Heaven on earth

[@Str4wb3rryrioo]

2 things this school loves: -Parties -Minors

[@Johnpork1239]

Parties filled with local high school girls

[@pickless6917]

@@Johnpork1239true asf I always went to IV parties when I was at SBHS

[@c_wonder]

well IV is full of families too so it only makes sense

[@Johnpork1239]

@@c_wonder most high schoolers going partying don’t live in IV

[@davidjordan4456]

Stabbings

[@breal7277]

Low income housing in downtown starts at $2500 for a one bedroom. Why? Well, you get to live in paradise.

[@jayb1409]

You forgot to mention that Deltopia is also OD session

[@chrisvalentine-y3u]

But the gym is always full and the top floor is always busy too 🤣🤣

[@colterbaltes]

The bikes are amazing except it’s well known that the handlebars will continuously be stolen

[@PaulaCassin]

You forgot to mention the Nobel prizes And academics, which aren’t that bad you also forgot to mention that a lot of people die falling off the cliffs in Isla Vista at those beach houses. You also forgot to mention the insane cost-of-living here in Santa Barbara and Goleta where I live.

[@PaulaCassin]

Actually, I shouldn’t say a lot. I suppose a dozen people have died falling off the cliff over the years.

[@soyunik7979]

I like taking my walks from Goleta beach up to the UCSB campus

[@Michael-ot7tz]

Yes! Say hi to ranger Dave on his John Deere tractor on your way up the path👍🏻😃😃

[@Michael-ot7tz]

SB local…it’s all true, 8,000 a month for a 4 bedroom apartment…get used to SB kids But it is the best place on earth the tunnel better be lit at night if you alone, it’ll get you🤯🤯🤯

[@jessielau7875]

I was just at this collage I took a tour and me and my parents are thinking to go to it it’s very skateboard friendly too

[@jacqueslin8178]

Deltopia is crazy. A friend of mine that lived on the beachside 2 year ago had to hold and barricade the door to her apartment with her friends/roommate because people partying outside were trying to break in There’s also the time when the chancellor hit and run another one of my friend’s roommate 2 years ago who was biking back and quietly paid them off. His roommate now owns a expensive film camera thanks to it as well as had his medical expenses paid

[@jordan-n3p]

That’s some tea

[@breal7277]

Corruption at its best. What year?

[@laylonieandco]

omg i wondered what happened to the guy who was hit

[@jacqueslin8178]

@@breal7277 The Chancellor incident? The summer of 2022. Most of us who took summer courses on campus that year heard about it though a lot of us don't know what happened after I didn't find out it was my friend's roommate until graduation day in 2023. I was with several other film friends when we were about to walk down the isle before the lore was revealed to us. I forgot how much hush money was given but I know for sure the roommate got a really expensive film camera

[@jacqueslin8178]

@@laylonieandco He survived don't worry. Broke some bones (forgot which ones. He was skateboarding home when he got hit). But all his medical expenses got paid plus a lot of hush money

[@PaigeKayeBroker]

You also need to know it’s $1500 a month for a twin bed in a shared room 😮

[@MrVan1lla]

If you drive or are willing to bike for 20minutes to campus you can easily get 1100$/mo queen size bed and room for yourself

[@JulianSidon]

I live in one of those houses right now. I’m currently a 4th year on scholarship.

[@chrisvalentine-y3u]

It’s okay , but like I’m trying to pass and get my degree fuck the partying but the roommates I made here became my really close friends

[@Whiplsh0]

Same, what major are u in?

[@Solvang_circus]

Halloween is crazy here

[@shanekelley6523]

this comment alone shows your age, halloween in IV is dead

[@MrZachgonz]

@@shanekelley6523correct. For awhile. PD shutdown ALL public parking now for the weekend. So students now celebrate Halloween a weekend early. Gaucho alum.

[@laylonieandco]

@@shanekelley6523 the entire month of October is halloween for us, minus the actual day. and it's so fun

[@natalie-po9gs]

@@laylonieandcobruh they shut everything down the entire weekend before and the weekend after

[@ThisIsBarrett]

its been downhill ever since they banned couch burning.

[@ferdaousselmoussaid8843]

Was gonna apply to transfer from Santa Barbara City College but they don’t accept students with over a certain amount of units completed already. Got into UCI though

[@ChickenJoe1234]

What? They don’t accept cc transfer students if they have too many units completed?

[@ferdaousselmoussaid8843]

@@ChickenJoe1234 yeah. I was a dual enrollment student and took too many classes I guess.

[@laylonieandco]

that... doesn't make sense?

[@phyz7821]

That's not true at all. I was accepted as a junior transfer student for the 24-25 SY. I have over 150 college credits and was a senior at my previous school.

[@ferdaousselmoussaid8843]

@@phyz7821well explain to me why I wasn’t able to choose UCSB, UCLA, or UCSD as an option to apply to on the UC app.

[@Edgy01]

Been in Santa Barbara since 1967. I recall the time radicals burned down the Bank of America there in IV. Cost of living is insane. You will have many students from out of town who come from insanely wealthy families. Not a good thing. At the junior college level is the cross town SB City College. Poorly managed. More foreign students who pay out the nose to go there. Drives rental prices up crazily. Wealthy foreign parents pay their way for their little rich kids. In IV they once described it as being as densely populated as Hong Kong. I believe it. Car ownership by students in IV is a big liability-no place to park. Law enforcement for IV is a big joke. The local sheriff is on a power trip. Proceed with caution. Climate is no where as good as it was 50 years ago. Very humid today. Crowded, expensive. Best departments are engineering and physics. However, job prospects are best by leaving town after graduation. In one large defense contractor in town we called the kids ”RCGs,” Recent College Graduates. They eventually figure out they couldn’t afford to stay there. There is final tip about the SB area. BRING MONEY. Undergrad Graduate of UCSB.

[@L30266]

One of my professors here actually helped pioneer infrared cameras into satellites or something like that made me realize I was getting my moneys worth

[@kniv3s77]

You forgot they got they own sti strain

[@breezyseng]

Dream college ❤

[@edmendoza1736]

STAY AWAY FROM THE BLUFFS AND DO NOT CLIMB THE FENCES WHILE IN A DRUNK STAGE OR YOU WILL BECOME A STATISTIC

[@christianmendozatapia295]

All of IV is crumbling fast af...

[@tredaviousbowser7931]

It’s sketchy af

[@christianmendozatapia295]

@@tredaviousbowser7931 it really is. Its hard to explain, because its so expensive to live here while being kinda ghetto at the same time... Its like an expensive ghetto... I kno that sounds strange, but its the only way to describe it.

[@RUNITED951]

Yea I’m a 15 and I live in Goleta. IV is in walking distance, I just sneak into del topia for fun 😂😂😂 the cops never catch me

[@joshuamurillo6236]

There's a good Chinese restaurant there called Lao Wang. Get the Chinese Sausage, pork belly and popcorn chicken buns. The Sweet n Sour chicken with Pork Chashu rice bow. And of course get the MALA TANG (Hot & Spicy Soup) They also have the best 🍺 selection and the owner is UCSB alumni (2007)

[@Bingchilling173]

I live right next to it and it is not as good as eight stories. I’ve only been to the first story and it was kinda loud, but maybe if you’re a student and actually there it’s better who knows

[@javierestrada3352]

Those beachside houses are falling down due to erosion.

[@GeTLaWsTKIIID]

Also those cliffs are dnagerous a kid recently died from a balcony I think failing and he fell down to the rocky bottom

[@rygar8bit2]

We get that every few years, has been happening here forever. Drunk kids around sea cliffs don't mix well.

[@GeTLaWsTKIIID]

@@rygar8bit2 I agree, I still don’t know why the city until fairly recently decided to make it safer. Or well as safe as you can

[@JoshuaKimbrough]

Not once did he mention the academics 😂😂😂😂

[@TheAahanaPerspectivePodcast-13]

Isn't this guy lexi Hensler's boyfriend or is that just me hallucinating.😮😮😮

[@ReconSamurai896]

I live 5 minutes away from UCSB

[@Paulburg3r]

Same

[@DavefromCA2023]

If the gym is massive then why do so many UCSB students work out at Golds Gym in Goleta?

[@MrZachgonz]

Well many students live off campus too so it makes sense for them to go to other gyms. Golds gym off Fairview isn’t too far from UCSB. Planet fitness off Hollister is even closer though.

[@DavefromCA2023]

@@MrZachgonz I still don’t get why you’d pay for a gym when there is a free one but thanks for the reply

[@Anthony-nd2in]

The gym on campus is really really crowded.

[@DavefromCA2023]

@@Anthony-nd2in Golds Gym is really crowded lol

[@tredaviousbowser7931]

IV is the sketchiest neighborhood in all of Goleta. Avoid it

[@david333-v8x]

also be rich

[@JusticeShepard]

They offer a ton of scholarships & it’s a public school so it’s below average tuition 🙏🏼👍🏼

[@david333-v8x]

@@JusticeShepardbelow average for instate. This is from the NYTs “The median family income of a student from U.C. Santa Barbara is $105,800, and 48% come from the top 20 percent.” then continues “A new study, based on millions of anonymous tax records, shows that some colleges are even more economically segregated than previously understood, while others are associated with income mobility.”

[@wanderingsoul7348]

Biden is forgiving all their student loan from the taxpayer's money.

[@cynr-iv2xu]

​@@JusticeShepardwhat is a public school concept in the U.S. ?

[@tredaviousbowser7931]

@@cynr-iv2xustate-owned and funded universities

[@squatch7376]

As someone who lives in SB the college kids suck

[@smhsroyalsgirlswaterpolo192]

Just promise that you won’t fall off a cliff

[@ZachCremisiSky]

0:24, i see a yerba mate can

[@BlueSweaters5180]

I live there

[@Autistic_Cl0wn]

It’s just UCSB, dude.

[@destinyl8813]

In other words, spend hella money on tuition just to party and not learn anything 😂😂

[@wanderingsoul7348]

Biden is forgiving all their student loan from the taxpayer's money.

[@scopezzbro2458]

If you’re from California and not a total square, you can spend less than most universities and work hard play hard

[@the8ofspades888]

It's also the school with the most Nobel laureates (Nobel Prize winners) as professors of any university in the world :)

[@Cali-KH805]

And you forgot to mention all the rapes and violence that goes on out there

[@Kate-y1z4o]

I know a really good restaurant in I’ve called naan stop it has really good Indian food

[@al-jameljohnson8805]

Tuition is $660,000 yearly

[@JusticeShepard]

$14k for in-state tuition 💪🏽

[@naseer022]

Check no. Of zeroes. I think one extra

[@Anthony-nd2in]

As a current student the tuition isn't really expensive at least not out of line with current standards.

[@orgcodekush]

It's nice to learn here but don't live here. Learning and living are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.😂

[@RileyWalsh-f1c]

I’m a local in Santa barbara

[@nicoshinozaki1849]

We have a candy shop WTF?

[@mattcorral1302]

I live in Santa Barbara

[@Buckets747]

My mom works there

[@elianasandoval4512]

Wtf… ucsb is not like this

[@Anthony-nd2in]

It is not a very representative video indeed.

[@Ausbossgamer_VR]

I live in Santa Barbara and I don’t know this

[@travieso7353]

I live near UCSB😈😈😈🙏🏽

[@davidjordan4456]

Homelessness, meth, all other drugs, stabbings, crews of guys getting young girls in "the industry " i would not send my children.

[@davidjordan4456]

SBCC is better. Too liberal but much better than the UC

[@Brandoo4K]

Ok 💯

[@natalie-po9gs]

party school reputation is way over exaggerated. deltopia sucks and gets worse every year

[@DaGOAT-d1w]

I live in sb

[@danalves2853]

Stfu we have a candy story!!??

[@Anthony-nd2in]

Yeah. The corner store at the ucen is for candy mostly.

[@AlexandraRocha-pz1hf]

In 5th grade, my whole grade got a tour of the campus campus because it was walking distance. when we walked though the tunnel everyone started screaming then it echoed really loud. But on the way back everyone had to run because kids went in to a starbucks to get water and we still were late for lunch that my schools cafeteria stuff was packing up. Me and my friends were joking around say that we would push each other in to the pond that had turtles and fish😂

[@Abby-vr4vt]

Did you forget to mention the rampant hookup culture/rape statistics? How about the drug and alcohol related deaths within the fraternities? UCSB isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Isla Vista isn’t a particularly nice town and the student body is really unhealthy. I wouldn’t recommend the school as someone who’s lived here.

[@egg_chan5096]

eh. its overrated

[@thedeadflyonyourwindowsill]

Dont forget about the IV killer