<p>So I decided to create this thread to hopefully provide prospective transfers with valuable information that could be used to give you guys a better understanding of the campus and its culture. What I want people to get out of this thread should be some general knowledge of UCLA from a students perspective and will hopefully prevent any regrets when choosing to attend this school or any other later down the road, which I will talk about later. Oh and I didn't know where to stick this so I'll just insert it here, its ok to have that CC inferiority complex. I started to develop it as soon as I was accepted. Doubt filled my head for the longest time and I began to question if I was right (smart enough) to attend the university; however, once classes began and I became accustomed to the quarter system I realized the classes here are not that bad, and are no more difficult than the ones I took at CC. If anybody is doubting their academic ability because they are a transfer student DON'T. If you get accepted into UCLA its because you genuinely belong. Transfer students are NOT stupid and lazy, in fact many transfer students I know actually received a 4.0 this quarter (most of them being south campus majors). </p>
<p>A little bit about me:
Last year I applied to UCLA, UCSB, and Davis as a History major. I was accepted into all three schools with a 3.51 GPA and was TAP certified, I had also submitted a TAG to both SB and Davis. For me it came down to either SB or LA, but I ended up choosing LA because the campus is gorgeous and it has a bigger school/stereotypical university feel, not to mention UCLA is better academically. </p>
<p>Various opinions about the school:
I have only been here for 1 quarter so my opinion might not be as valid as someone's who has been here for 2 or 3 years, but I am going to offer it anyways. All in all I am happy with my choice to attend UCLA. Living on campus in the dorms was definitely the way to go, as I have met some great people and have developed good bonds and friendships with them. The food is awesome, the student body is generally pretty attractive and outgoing, the campus is beautiful, the nightlife is great, and classes are not too difficult. If I had any regrets about the past quarter it would be these. 1) I wish I had gotten more involved in extra-curricular activities. I did participate in rush (and will gladly do my best to answer questions on that) but unfortunately I did not follow through, although I will try again in the spring. 2) I wish I would have gone to more football games, especially to the game against Cal and ASU. 3) I wish I wouldn't have f**ked around so much with my floormates, especially when it was time to get serious with my school work (my GPA paid the price last quarter for my lack of discipline). </p>
<p>Even though my view of UCLA is positive I have talked to a few people who have had regrets about attending, and have therefore provided me with a negative view about the school. <em>Please note that the people who expressed these views tried to generalize most if not all UCLA students, which is really hard to do considering the enormous size of our undergraduate population.</em> Two people that I have talked to say they find the people who attend this school to be arrogant, self-absorbed nerds who are constantly boasting about their academic achievements. One of the two people who said this also said that many students like to talk A LOT about academics,their GPAs, and or post graduate plans, even at parties. Two other guys I have talked to think that the girls that attend are *****y, materialistic, and cliquish and one of the two guys who made that statement also said he believes UCLA is over-hyped and is not all that it is cracked up to be. A couple of girls I talked to were not at all impressed by the variety of guys at UCLA, and rated them somewhat low in the looks category. But in all honesty those are the views of a few people. It is easy to find positive reviews about UCLA so I wanted to throw in some negative views just to provide a bit of balance. </p>
<p>Now onto the questions. Feel free to ask me anything and I will try my hardest to provide a well thought out response; however, I WILL NOT answer "chance me questions" because I do not work for UCLA and I am not an admissions officer. If you want to know what your chances are then use the search button and compare your stats to those of past transfer students. Now fire away!</p>
<p>...Its 2:15 am and I worked my ass off making this thread, hopefully people actually post in it and ask questions lol.</p>