Anyone have any info about this program?
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Don’t know a tremendous details about the coaching and program other than they play in a very competitive Big West and they are usually in the middle to lower half of the group. Decent baseball facilities, not top shelf. Very good school academically, coming from out of state may be difficult to get in as they give California students priority. I am sure the baseball program would help with this. One of the most beautiful locations for a college right on the beach in Santa Barbara. Really does not get much better than this. The school, deserved or not, has a “party school” reputation, probably because of the beach and great year round weather, plus all of the students live in “Isla Vista” sort of a separate little community of college kids right next to the beach. That said it is a very academically sound school. CADad probably has more insight into the program/school since he went there….many moons ago 
I played tennis when I was there. We've had a few interactions with the coaches but from a baseball standpoint CollegeParent probably has a pretty good idea of how things work there. Academically it is a very good school, but my impression from a camp there is that the coaches are not going to encourage pursuit of a rigorous academic path. That's JMO from a few isolated comments and you'd probably want to look through the roster and see what the majors of the players are/were relative to what your player is looking for.
Can't beat the Halloween party in IV on DP each year.
Can't beat the Halloween party in IV on DP each year.
"Can't beat the Halloween party in IV on DP each year."
CADad, when my future wife and I lived in DP (El Nido), I once went out as an enormous dirty clothes pile and she as a box of Tide. We gave a bunch of leftover food to "The Mayor", the homeless guy that lived in Dog**** Park. Good times!
CADad, when my future wife and I lived in DP (El Nido), I once went out as an enormous dirty clothes pile and she as a box of Tide. We gave a bunch of leftover food to "The Mayor", the homeless guy that lived in Dog**** Park. Good times!
I definitely will not major in engineering, or medicine, or anything science related, so not going into a hard major won't be a problem with me.
I'm looking into more like communications, marketing, or another major, not that those aren't hard, but more enjoyable for me and honestly probably not as hard. And that goes for whatever school I look into, not just UCSB.
I'm looking into more like communications, marketing, or another major, not that those aren't hard, but more enjoyable for me and honestly probably not as hard. And that goes for whatever school I look into, not just UCSB.
Krak,
Do you remember the communications professor who had quite a reputation for going out with students? I ran into a good, but unfortunately just a friend, with him at the renaissance fair one year.
Do you remember the communications professor who had quite a reputation for going out with students? I ran into a good, but unfortunately just a friend, with him at the renaissance fair one year.
