Good to know! How much it costs if ride the rental scooter for daily commute?
Totally agreed! We heard the same things, and we checked the online reviews before we visited the campus. I’m surprised that lots of people had good experience at Hedrick. Social life is not on my nephew’s list, otherwise, he would go to UCSB or UT Austin.
I think the bird scooters are $1 to unlock and then something like .25 a minute? So it depends where you go or for how long. There are places on campus where you have to get off and walk them - along Bruin walk and Bruin plaza. Could always try renting for a month to decide if your student wants one before buying. I am also not sure how students store and secure and charge them if they own.
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The “commute” from Hedrick to campus isn’t bad. My bff lived in Hitch across the street from Hedrick. I’d walk there after class sometimes. And I was a theatre major, which is in the farthest building from the dorms. We didn’t have electric scooters. And no one really rode a bike because you had limited spaces where you could ride. And it really wasn’t bad at all.
Also a classic triple, while not everyone’s first choice, also has benefits. Those classic floors are very social and it’s usually pretty easy to find study partners and such if social isn’t a priority like the previous poster said about his nephew.
Seriously all dorms have their pluses and minuses and everyone figures it out.
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Exactly! Everything has its pluses and minuses. It’s not difficult to figure out that Hedrick is the least favorable housing option as most of freshman lived there. Doesn’t freshman have lower priority for housing options?
When you don’t have other option, you’d better “love” what you got, same as whatever college you SIR’ed. Lol.
Thanks for the information. We enjoy jogging if not in hurry. Is it possible there is 30 minutes or less between two academic activities? I think it’s very likely as you cannot always get the class you wanted. We will definitely give Bird a try before we purchase one.
Your student will learn all about enrollment at orientation but yes, I recommend a lot of patience and flexibility. My daughter cares mostly about professor and TA reviews and will take whatever schedule happens to work to get the particular class or section. I don’t recall any situation with classes that close together on a given day but maybe some finals or midterms that didn’t have much time between.
Feel free to PM me if this is veering too far off topic.
I don’t think you can assume that a particular housing option is “least favorable” simply because it is populated by freshmen, who are lowest on the priority list. When I was in college many moons ago, I was certainly looking for different things out of my housing after my freshman year. But that did not mean that where I lived freshman year (a very social dorm) was not the best option for me as a freshman.
— Signed, parent whose kid was assigned to Hedrick and is thinking optimistically!
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Did you choose Hedrick for your sophomore year? If not, which resident hall you signed up? If you signed up different resident hall other than Hedrick for sophomore year, it’s just not convincible that Hedrick was the best option for you as a freshman…
I didn’t go to UCLA. I went to another school. What I am saying is that a freshman may be looking for something different from what a sophomore (or junior, or senior) is looking for. I am glad I was in the dorm I was in for freshman year, and I am glad I was not in that dorm as a sophomore.
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? I thought you are UCLA student or you have UCLA student, but you’re not UCLA student and you’ve never lived in Hedrick… Thanks for your honesty.
Not sure why you’re picking a fight here about a pretty self-evident (and not very earth-shattering) point. I also said in my message that I was the parent of a kid assigned to Hedrick. Anyway, enjoy your day.
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I don’t think you can assume that a particular housing option is “least favorable” simply because it is populated by freshmen, who are lowest on the priority list. When I was in college many moons ago, I was certainly looking for different things out of my housing after my freshman year. But that did not mean that where I lived freshman year (a very social dorm) was not the best option for me as a freshman
Completely agree. I have an incoming freshman who requested to change to a Hedrick classic after being assigned another dorm. We’re from LA and I have a son 3 years older who has many friends who just completed their junior year at UCLA (my older one is at Cal). I asked several of them which dorm my incoming freshman should request and they all agreed on Hedrick being among the top dorms for freshmen. Do I expect my son will want to live there as a sophomore or junior? Not a chance. As a freshman? Absolutely. To each their own.
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This is the information I’m interested. Would you let me know the resident hall your son signed up for sophomore year and why he chose it over Hedrick?
Never mind, just realized your older son is at Cal (same as my older bear). We found lots
of information related to dorm rankings on social media. Thanks anyway.
Lol. I’m not interested in arguing with someone, I’m only interested in others experiences, which help us to make decisions.
Another housing question: my daughter got her first choice of a suite in Saxon, but realized that probably wouldn’t be best as she’d miss out on a lot of the social freshman college experience. She’s willing to file a CAR, but only wants to list deluxe options as her four choices. Does anyone have a sense as to how hard it might be to luck into a deluxe? She’s pretty shy, and I’m worried her request is much likelier to be denied if it only includes deluxes.
No info on the change question, but I lived in Saxon my freshman year (in the 90s) and LOVED it. I made friends with all the people in my building and met my future roommate through my neighbor. It can be social if you want it to be.
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All freshman (non-athletes) should assume that they will live in a triple. It is very difficult to get a non-triple as a freshman. I knew one gal who got it, but there was something weird that happened that led her to it. It wasn’t necessarily a choice. They’ll tell you at orientation that it’s the rare freshman who doesn’t end up living in a triple.
She doesn’t mind a triple, but she wants to only request deluxe rather than classics (on the change form, you have to pick buildings, not just type of room, and you only get four choices, so she wants to pick a deluxe double then deluxe triple in one building then deluxe double and deluxe triple in another).
I called UCLA Housing yesterday to ask about the chances of a CAR form being accepted, and they said it’s simply based on availability. It’s impossible to say whether it’ll be accepted since they can’t predict availability (as other students could be filling out the CAR the next weeks, some admitted students may not attend, etc).
Like others have said, all freshmen usually get a triple, regardless of what they put as their preferences.
If it helps, I received a Deluxe Triple as my housing assignment as an incoming freshman, so it’s possible for your daughter to get one too (if space is available).
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