<p>Which clubs are you involved with, if any? Have you made a good amount of friends by doing so?</p>
<p>@leifE8: Hey! How do you like UCLA so far? What made you choose UCLA over all the other schools? </p>
<p>With a 3.73 do you think I’ll get accepted as a psych major? </p>
<p>FALL 2011 STATS FOR UCLA PSYCH:
APPLIED: 3.37 average
ACCEPTED: 3.81 average</p>
<p>Thanks for making this thread!</p>
<p>Hows the party scene? Do you see transfers join frats?</p>
<p>@SilverRex I went to a lot of different club/organization meetings on campus and chose one that I really wanted to invest myself in. It’s called Bruin Adteam ([Bruin</a> AdTeam](<a href=“http://www.bruinadteam.org/]Bruin”>http://www.bruinadteam.org/)), and we basically create an ad campaign over the year and present it at a competition in June. Quite a few of my good friends are on AdTeam - that wasn’t how it was initially, but once I got to know them, I realized how alike we are. That’s the great thing about clubs - if everyone else was interested in joining that club too, you can pretty much be guaranteed you’ll get along with most of them. If I had more time, I’d love to be involved in Circle K International (join it at whatever campus you go to, they’re almost everywhere!), but as a transfer I wanted to get started on real world experience (internship) ASAP.</p>
<p>@PsychBruin2012 I love UCLA. It can’t be beat, in my opinion, in terms of a combination of great academics, an awesome/accessible campus, and a good mix of different kinds of people. I feel as if a lot of campuses excel in one or two of those areas, but not so much in all three.
GPA-wise, you’re obviously right up there with the majority of applicants who were accepted, so that’s a good sign. As I’ve mentioned already, there’s not much you can do about it now since apps are in, so just be happy with wherever you get accepted! The psych program at UCLA is great, I’ve met some really cool undergrads doing extra credit psych experiments.</p>
<p>@Hsandovaljr Party scene is great. Keep in mind that it’s LA, so you’re not going to be going to many house parties (apartments are your new party destination), but if you just keep your feelers out for people who like to go out on the weekend you’ll have something to do or someplace to go more often than not. Nieve 18 year old transfer that I am, I took full advantage of the fact that most of these places will supply you with alcohol, so I was drunk for 1/4 of Fall quarter. As a note: frat parties, in my experience, suck anywhere, so I just avoid those altogether. Unless you’re a cute girl, you’re not going to get any alcohol or have any fun at a frat party.
Of course, that’s unless you’re in the frat. I know some cool frat guys, and I know some dbags. I actually only have met one transfer who’s in a frat (which kinda surprises me now that I think about it), but I don’t think you’ll have any issues if it’s what you want to do. Again, the fact that you’re a transfer is generally just something you mention when you meet someone, and it never really comes up again. I won’t lecture you on the pros and cons of joining a frat; I had to go through that myself, and ended up deciding that it wasn’t worth the money, time and humiliation to have a premade group of friends. I’m really happy with that decision, because I’ve made so many other friends who I party with - I don’t really need a frat. Overall, UCLA’s no different than any other school with frats/sororities, really.</p>
<p>How are class sizes? Do you ever have trouble talking to professors if you don’t understand something. Also is it true that alot of professors have heavy accents?</p>
<p>@Hsandovaljr In general, upper division classes hover somewhere between 50-90 students, and lower div/GE classes somewhere between 200-300. Discussions have about 20 students each, in general. In terms of talking to professors, you’re not going to be able to easily ask questions during a lecture class at any UC, but that’s what office hours are for. In many upper div classes, in-class questions or discussion are common and even encouraged. I talk to the professor during class in my CS151 class every day.
I haven’t had a professor with a heavy accent thus far, so I can’t really say much about that. Most classes are podcasted, so I can’t see it being a big issue.</p>
<p>What clubs do you recommend joining? (I know there are clubs for almost every possible thing you can think of but I’m looking for a club that isnt specifically constrained to one interest. A club that has lots of diversity in terms of people, that has a little bit of everything, and overall a place where I can take my mind off schoolwork for a second and just chill.)</p>