UC Santa Barbara: Lisa Przekop, Admissions Director on Reading 110K Applications, “Happy” Students and UG Focus.

Since becoming part of the University of California system in 1944, University of California Santa Barbara has become one of the premier Public Universities in the world. 110K Students from all over the world applied study at UC Santa Barbara this year.

Lisa Przekop, Director of Admissions at UC Santa Barbara shares an insider’s view on the school, students and applications. Join the UC Santa Barbara Mailing List for updates.

In particular, we discuss the following with Lisa:

The University of California Santa Barbara
What is UC Santa Barbara looking for their Students?
COVID-19 Impact on UC Santa Barbara & Admissions

Topics discussed in this episode:

UC Santa Barbara - Amazing Location [2:17]
“What are you looking for in Students?” [6:10]
How did Lisa Przekop get into College Admissions? [10:17]
Students Then and Now [14:19]
Impact of COVID-19 [17:11]
Fall 2020 and COVID-19 [20:00]
Making Care Common Project [25:18]
Is the Nature of College Applications Changing? [29:43]
A Plea to Students [38:09]

Our Guest: Lisa Przekop is the Director, Office of Admissions at University of California Santa Barbara. Lisa is a UCSB alumna with bachelor’s degree in Development and Experiment Psychology and Master’s in Education.

Memorable Quote: “I stepped on campus and decided I was never going to leave”, Lisa Przekop said of UC Santa Barbara.

Episode Transcript: Please visit this episode’s transcript.

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