<p>I was notified of my acceptance today based on the appeal that I submitted a few weeks back. Basically, I need to SIR soon and because I spent the last month doing massive amounts of research on UCSD and UIUC, I know next to nothing about UCLA. I'll be a CS major in the school of engineering btw.</p>
<p>Since I missed the admitted student day, can someone please give me a brief rundown on the following. I know I can just read the website (and I will), but I'll probably miss out on some details that can be better explained on CC.</p>
<p>-Best housing for cs majors/engineers
-How housing/dining works in general
-CS dept (labs, professors, research, etc.)
-perceived difficulty of classwork
-anything else really that might be important for me to know</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say there’s a best housing for certain majors. It’s more about what you’re looking for in you’re housing life. More social being the halls (communal bathrooms & more rooms),in the middle being the plazas, and least social being the suites. [plazas and suites have bathrooms in the room]</p>
<p>There are 3 dining halls as well as convenience meals at Bcaf, Rendevous, Cafe 1919, and Late night, all with their own kinds of food. You sign for up a certain amount of swipes, Premiere meaning you can use more than 1 swipe in a meal period, and can basically save them up through the quarter. </p>
<p>Not being a CS major, someone else can answer the rest of the questions :)</p>
<p>-perceived difficulty of classwork
I have two good friends in CS here. it seems like the hard part for CS (at least for them) is sheer amount of coding you have to do…but I’m sure that’s at any school.</p>
<p>-anything else really that might be important for me to know
try to choose the school whose environment you like…visiting the schools is the best way. I don’t know about UIUC, but the difficulty between UCSD and UCLA is minimal at best so consider other factors. </p>
<p>if you’re worried that you won’t be able to get into a good company from UCLA…my two friends have landed very good internships (one of them got google this summer) so its doable with the hard work. oh, and if you come here, join the CS honors society. my friends can help you out there. </p>
<p>And no, coding isn’t the difficult part. When you start upper-division classes, you’d see that they expect you to code the assignment without any instruction. THere is a reason why you learn coding in lower division classes (CS 31/32/33). </p>
<p>THe difficult parts are CS111/151B/180. The lab courses (CS152A/152B) will be very hard too, especially 152B, you’ll likely stay in the lab with your groupmate until 3AM the night before the last project is due.</p>
<p>Congrats! I’m in the exact same boat, and just got my appeal decision yesterday. I’ve read that appeal students aren’t guaranteed housing, however. Does anyone know anything about that, and the likelihood of getting housing as an appeal student? Thanks.</p>