<p>IT WAS HORRIBLE! worst experience of my life! I got a jacked up schedule, but probably better than most!</p>
<p>Instead of waiting around for everyone else to go to the OC and sign up, i went home and did it myself. Best decision ever! All the classes i am already enrolled in had like 5 spots left, and in, literally, 8mins the class got closed (I enrolled at 8:00:01; the class was closed by 8:08, which was the time i refreshed the screen).</p>
<p>The orientation, above all, was pointless. Everything they said was corny, superficial and the OCs have 0 or very minimal experience in whatever they are doing (maybe due to the fact that they are so young). It made me cringe when they said something about how “not everyone can attend ucla because we rejected a lot of students,” perhaps they should go on collegeboard.com and check how many berkeley rejected. They remind me of those counselors at my community college; they dont know what the hell they are talking about. </p>
<p>Um, also, it shows that ucla does not care about its transfers, or any of their students, mainly because they fail to open up more classes and would rather use us to fill up other classes that no one wants to take with horrible teachers.</p>
<p>I hate it how ucla tries to make it seem like they are so good and that “We made the right decision” because after today, maybe i should have went to berkeley!</p>
<p>Last, but not least, the people are extremely superficial and unfriendly! It got cliquey the moment it started!</p>
<p>P.S. to anyone who is going to orientation on july 30th or aug 3rd, man! good luck! like i seriously mean it cuz i had such a HARD time with this whole scheduling thing… i really hope u guys can find a class cuz its terrible!</p>
<p>mojojojo69…I’m really sorry to hear about your experience. I wish UCLA would do their orientation how Berkeley does. Berkeley has two phases for registering. In the first Phase all students are only allowed to sign up for 10 units regardless of who they are. That ensures that everyone gets at least some of their classes. Then in Phase II, after seniors, all transfer students have priority over everyone else to sign up for classes. That being said, I didn’t have any problems getting the classes I needed.
Good luck w/ the rest of your classes and I’m sure you’ll make the best of the situation.</p>
<p>It was a very long day. By the time I got home I was so tired. With all the walking I did, it was like coming back from disneyland minus the fun. </p>
<p>Overall it wasn’t that bad. The life science department was nice enough to save us some seats for transfer students. I had to stay until 8pm bc I needed the OC to override the closed class. Meeting the departmental counselor was cool. There was only 3 people in my major that showed up. The departmental counselor was nice and told me what classes I needed to take. My OC was very helpful.</p>
<p>Negatives are trying to schedule your classes. First of all, there aren’t enough computers to look at the schedule of classes. They only give you a general catolog which is not the schedule of classes. As kevintech stated before, sign up for the computers early so that you can look at the schedule of classes. Or you can bring your laptop, but there is limited wireless access. I saw some people bringing their own laptop and that speed up the enrollment process. Or you can do what I did. Print out the schedule of classes that you are interested in before you go to orientation, so that you don’t have to run around all stressed out about your schedule during orientation. Also, a lot of classes are closed at this moment. Good luck to the other people with later registration date. However, if you need a life science class they will override the closed class. If you are also a physiological science major, they can also override the closed class. </p>
<p>During enrollment, my group finished in 20 minutes. We had 2 computers and 1 guy brought his own laptop, so we finished enrollment quickly. Our OC was nice enough to skip a video that we were suppose to watch before enrollment. He just gave us a link so that we could watch it home. We were suppose to draw cards to see if who gets to enroll first, but we didn’t. All of the classes we wanted were closed and we needed someone to override it the next day, so it didn’t matter who went first. Most of us ended up enrolling in ge classes which were not full. </p>
<p>Like mojojojo said, all of the stuff they tell you were pretty pointless. Don’t cheat, respect others, etc. The plagarism video was probably the most entertaining video of the day. The most useful thing I got out of it was the undergraduate research workshop and being able to get into closed classes. Other than that, it was not worth 125 dollars. It should have been 10 dollars. O yea the dinner wasn’t great either. The meatloaf tasted really strange. Btw for those still wondering about bruincard, I did it during orientation. The line wasn’t long. There was only 3 people in front of me. Good luck to all those attending the upcoming sessions. Prepare for a very long day.</p>
<p>to add on what sakura said, if you are not a life science major, you will not be overwritten to sign up for a closed class! It only works with science majors. Humanities and social sciences have it worst.</p>
<p>I wish I wouldnt have gone to orientation; it gave me a bad outlook on ucla.</p>
<p>Luvtoolearn, Thanks, berks system sounds way better lucky!</p>
<p>P.S. those videos had really bad acting…</p>
<p>Overall, the food sucked, orientation sucked, the people sucked; so at the moment, i have nothing nice to say.</p>
<p>hey luvtoolearn and mojojojo-
ucla does do their enrollment like berkeley, its just this one time for your orientation purposes, that its not done this way. for every quarter after this you will be subject to the phase style enrollment.</p>
<p>That’s the kind of attitude we need around here. If you don’t get your classes it’s not the end of the world, you’re here for at least 2 years…you’ll get what you need to get in. Not getting it for one quarter isn’t gonna 'f you</p>
<p>Hopefully the classes in the social science/humanities are not offered once a year. The classes I need are offered only once a year. I think that’s why I was able to override the closed class. I hope your experience will be better next time at ucla mojojojo.</p>
<p>strongergodzilla…really? It doesn’t sound like it…first of all we have a whole room full of computers to use for registering so that everyone in the groups can go at once…there is no card drawing or anything like that…the wireless access on UCB campus is fantastic so if you have your laptop you can access the internet almost everywhere. Our orientation ends at 5:00 not 8:00 unless you want to stay for dinner, which I might add was really good because of all the choices (lunch was horrible though). I didn’t have any problems w/ closed classes except for the ones that are only for seniors until phase two but those classes are huge & I don’t see any problems getting into them in phase two. I understand what you are saying but what I mean is that if it works for subsequent semesters/quarters, I don’t see why UCLA didn’t do the registration in phases from the beginning. Lax shouldn’t have to wait a whole quarter to get his classes that he needs.</p>
<p>luvtoolearn, ucberkeley’s orientation method is 100% better! strongergodzilla is sugarcoating it! Like you said, UCLA only had 2 computers and in the group of 8 it was purely by luck which 2 individuals would get to use them first. There werent even enough computers in the computer labs! Good thing i went home early!</p>
<p>Also, UCberk’s food is so much better (i ate there once :() I am starting to regret not going there! I just wish ucberk wasnt so far away…</p>
<p>And UCLA does give “priority to transfers” AFTER the first quarter is over…sucks!</p>
<p>The orientation was really all about timing.
for me and anyone else at the first orientation session, phase 1 had ended and phase 2 was to begin a while later. The undergrads had enrolled in their 10 units, and were waiting for phase 2 for the rest. I mean what can UCLA do for transfer students that were enrolled for the last of the orientation sessions? They cant hold off phase 2 for the 25,000 undergraduates, it just doesn’t make sense nor is it very fair. </p>
<p>im not trying to sugar coat anything, I had to deal with all the same things. I had to go 4th in line to register because I drew a bad card. Just because a class is full doesn’t mean that a ton of people wont drop too. There is also PTE codes you can get from your instructor that will allow you enroll no matter how full it is. If you desperately need a class, email an instructor, plead your case if you have too, there are a lot of ways into closed classes besides the waitlist. Most of your majors wont cover all the required units to graduate anyway, its ok if you only take 1 or 2 major specific courses your first quarter, its only 10 weeks guys. Imagine mojojojo if this happened to you at berkeley, you’d be stuck an entire semester with classes you don’t want.</p>
<p>ucla doesnt have phases! i dont know what u are talking about! </p>
<p>secondly, i wasnt enrolled in the last orientation. The last one is in august.</p>
<p>thirdly, it also wasnt my fault that by the end of may all the other orientations were full; i still hadnt made my decision, plus i dont know how that vindicates the school’s treatment of transfers, it just helps ensure that they dont care!</p>
<p>fourthly, i would rather be stuck with girls who wear no make up than girls who think they are paris hilton or something.</p>
<p>lastly, im already stuck with classes i dont want…they all suck!</p>
<p>Umm it does have phases. It’s just that orientation is an exception where you get to enroll all of the classes together. When you register for winter quarter you will enroll in phases.
<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/soc/enrollappt.htm[/url]”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/soc/enrollappt.htm</a>
It just happen that the orientation for transfers began when the the 2nd pass began. I agree that they really should move up the orientation dates so that way transfers can get the classes they need. I was freaking out that I wouldn’t be able to get the classes bc one of the class I needed was offered only once a year and it was closed by the time I got to orientation. You can try to check ursa compulsively to see if you can get the class you want. Someone might drop. Good luck. </p>
<p>The dorm food wasn’t exactly great. Maybe I ate at a bad place. The meatloaf tasted really strange and the meatballs too. Only the spaghetti tasted normal.</p>
lucky!</p>
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