Fall 2015 UCLA transfer students

@zettasyntax lucky!! Just 3 $100 payments sound amazing!! I received no financial aid so I have to make 3 $1700 payments before school starts :(( :))

Cheers to being ancient!!

Do we get to choose our move In day for the dorms? or is it assigned.

@Ellie64 I feel old too and I’m even older than you, I’m 23 haha. Where is the UCLA transfer page? I wanna join!

I’m 22 and a half! :slight_smile: I went to a UCLA event yesterday and they said people in their 30’s dorm all the time and love it.

I think most transfers will fall in the 19-22 range. Plus, I don’t think most people would notice unless you tell them.

There was a guy on my floor who was a 26-year-old Navy veteran. No one had a problem with the age difference and it doesn’t really seem uncommon to have older students dorm anyway.

So @cayton are you staying on campus next year (if you can get it) or moving off?

Is anyone else in Sproul?

@sagemeadow You initially get assigned a move-in date but you can switch the date/time to whatever works.

@Manda001 search for UCLA transfer students. It’s a public group with 8,500+ members

@k4201505 thanks, found it! :slight_smile:

Is it possible to join clubs at campus as a transfer student? What about a sorority? I know that on bruin day, they handed out flyers with information about rush week but I’m thinking that most people will be around 18-20 in sororities so it would be weird as a transfer? I don’t know how it works hehe :smiley:

Yes, you can absolutely join clubs as a transfer student and I know and have plenty of transfer friends who are involved in Greek life. However, you should probably rush the fall quarter you start, as fall is when most frats/sororities rush and you’ll be able to maximize the amount of time you’re in it.

Tomorrow’s my last day as an anteater and I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited about anything. Then I can officially join you all as a Bruin! #peaceoutUCI

@lindyk8
I’ll be commuting. I don’t live too far from the school, relatively speaking.

As nice as dorming was, I probably should’ve given more thought to making the decision to live on-campus. Dining was nice overall, even if it got tired after a while, and the socializing was cool, too. But it seemed like something of a distraction from classes, oddly enough. I know for a lot of people, living on-campus helps keep one focused on studying, but it didn’t feel that way for me. Also, living on campus felt a little suffocating after a while, like I was living in a bubble. It felt very refreshing to go back home every weekend, which I started doing around the end of fall quarter/beginning of winter quarter.

I don’t know. Maybe I’m just different when it comes to this sort of stuff.

To everyone else: I hope you guys enjoy dorming as much as I did, if not more!

@FUTUREUCLABRUIN1

Hey!! You still in for switching?

I forgot to report a course I took in high school in the UC app in November, but I reported it in the TAU on the additional comments section in January. This is kinda late, but do I still need to report this to UCLA?

@direwolfin, well, yeah, if it was an earlier grade, you were supposed to send it to an email, but they would have seen it in the TAU and it’s too late now. I doubt it will affect anything. Just send the transcript. You did mention it, so I think it’s all cool.

Okay quick question ~ apparently my transcripts through Fall 2014 are due on June 30 because I was admitted late, but I think transcripts through Spring 2015 are due on July 1. Can I have just one copy of my grades that includes this spring sent to them since my grades will be done in time?

@fncrane probably, I’d just email them and let them know you are only sending one copy.

A few interesting things I noticed after I submitted my SIR (yes I already did it I was too excited):

  1. I didn't have to pay the $100 fee (it says not required). I was shocked by this, as my family had a high EFC on the FAFSA. But I also haven't received my PAL for financial aid, so is this why I don't have to pay? Any thoughts on this??
  2. Under high school transcripts, instead of saying "not required" it says "already received." When my high school had us send transcripts senior year it was relatively early so I had it sent to both UCI and UCLA because I didn't know where I was going at that point. I'm surprised they kept those on record, I figured they would have thrown them away when I wasn't admitted before. Weird.

admitted off of the waitlist for economics!