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<p>which will still probably be significantly less than 70,000. </p>
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<p>I’ve heard people make this argument before, but in my experience at least, it’s been pretty false. I mean, there’s +30,000 students at UCLA sure, but north campus majors stay in north campus, and South campus majors stay in south campus. So the people you come into contact with tend to at least be people with similar majors, and you can constantly run into people you know, because they’ll generally stay in the same area at varying times of the day (although i should admit that i spend A LOT of time on campus, which might be why this is true for me)</p>
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<p>Classes are fairly easy to get into (and professors will usually admit you into classes if you’re trying to add)</p>
<p>Student services are pretty efficient, idk why someone would think that they’re not (maybe more people = less efficient? all that this means is that since they have more people, they just have a larger staff to accommodate for this)</p>
<p>one on one time with professors is usually available most of the time too (i only see students show up to office hours around midterm/finals time, other than that prof’s OH are pretty empty)</p>
<p>There’s this supposition that private schools are better than state schools because they’re private (i think this has something to do with the fact that it’s usually this way from k-12 schools) but for top-tier public universities, like UCB and UCLA, this is clearly not the case. Our staffs are on par with the top-tier privates, in both citations and general department prestige. </p>
<p>You might have a few more people in your class, but you also end up saving a ton of money.</p>
<p>As to the OP, go where you feel you’d be the happiest. No doubt both will have very good IR programs. See if living close to home is something you’re willing to give up (or in fact, may WANT to do)</p>