Personally I commuted a little under an hour to my community college for over a year and it was kind of torturous. I felt totally disconnected from the other students and campus resources and I ended up really dreading the drive. I can’t comment on the UCLA long distance commuting experience but mine was just terrible even though it was a beautiful drive along the California seashore with little or no traffic. Also this
So if you think there’s any chance you’ll get a less than ideal schedule and be regularly stuck with commute times in the hour range don’t do it, is my advice.
@princessluna I don’t see why not. If you are only 20 minutes away, then it shouldn’t be a problem. But as a commuter, you will learn that, once you drive off campus, you’re not coming back that day. Just put it this way, for your first quarter or two, you’re going to be on campus most of the day anyways.
To answer your second question, how big are lecture halls? It all depends, for example, you might have a class in Humanities that has various rooms, one of my lectures in that course had something like 130 students or so, give or take 90 would show up regularly, but it was fairly big. Then you can have a lecture in Broad, where 200 people fit into the lecture.
Then you could have a class that has 40 people, or have a seminar that has 20-35. It all depends how big certain rooms are. You’ll see when you begin to register, if has a enrollment cap of 120-150 then know your class will be big. If its small cap, then it will be smaller.
Hmmm I wonder if they will give us discounts for ucla gear on bruin day. Is anyone going to the PILOT event? I am taking off work for bruin day for sure but I don’t know if it will be worth it to take off work for PILOT day as well.
Stats of a friend with no CC account.
Accepted
GPA: 3.7
Major: Physics
IGETC: Done
Pre-Reqs: done
Essay: Dropped out of high school sophomore year, went to CC to save 2 years of his life.
EC: nothing
TAG: UCSB
Applied: UCLA, UCSB, UCI, UCB, UCSD
Accepted: UCSB, UCSD, UCLA
Pending: UCB, UCI
@laboratory1 it is just an built-in question that everyone has to answer on the SLR. Answering Yes or No on this question would not affect your residency status anyways.
So…I got accepeted to UCLA as an Econ major. I’m currently taking Calc 2 right now, do you guys know if it’ll be possible to switch to the Math/Econ major? And do you guys also know the implications of doing so?
@UniversalSnip Definitely commuting rots your soul or something. I spend 1.5 hours on 3 buses each direction to get to my community college 5 days a week, and it is excruciating. I am very excited to be able to live on campus and leisurely walk to class.
@lakeeshow310 you should. Bruin Day is only a four hour event from 1pm-5pm. And they have a lot planned. More than a student could get done in one day. So I planned a campus tour and housing tour for next week. I’ll also do pilot day on the 8th. And then on the 9th, I’ll be doing the AAP event in the morning and bruin day in the afternoon. I feel that should be enough to get everything I want done.
I got an email telling me that decisions were posted while I was napping on Friday around 6 o’clock. The wording made me rather wary, but I guess they email you the same thing regardless of your acceptance status.
How do I schedule an appointment with a counselor to plan out my academic year and courses? I cant seem to find that link in myucla. I plan to go to the transfer day on the 9th, but I don’t need all those other visits. I just need someone to help me schedule out my courses for the year. Thoughts?
I didn’t see anything on the checklist about meeting a counselor, but I’m sure something like that is required (maybe at orientation?). FWIW, you can look at the catalog for your major and see all the required courses and use assist to see what will carry over.