<p>I’m wondering because I’m kinda worried there won’t be much of a social life there. As in parties, club’s, etc. Just a good social atmosphere with good nightlife, etc.
So if anyone can give me as much detail as possible, that’d be great!</p>
<p>There are a lot of parties and clubs at UC Davis. You just have to know people throwing the parties. A good way to get to know when events and parties are happening is to join the UCD facebook group Events & Parties. For house parties, you need to know at least one person who’s attending the party, otherwise it’d be incredibly awkward. I heard frat parties are limited to frats and sororities, but I don’t know if that’s true or not. And there a lot of things happening in downtown Davis. And you don’t need to party to have an active social life at Davis. You just need to put yourself out there. You can’t just expect social events to come to you, you have to go to them. UC Davis also has a large number of student-run clubs.</p>
<p>For the frat and sorority parties, I think it depends on the house. I know one of my roommates and a couple suitemates have mentioned some parties where they easily got in, and they’re not in a sorority.</p>
<p>There’s definitely a party scene here if you’re into that. I personally love the party scene here: If you’re into it you can easily find something, if you’re not you can easily avoid it. I fall into the latter and have never had any problems when it comes to avoiding it. On the other hand, a few of my suitemates are into it and seem to be able to find something whenever they feel like going out. So it’s really what you make of it, whether that’s what you’re looking for or not.</p>
<p>As sopranokitty said, there are a TON of student-run clubs. Get involved there and you’ll make a ton of friends. Plus as she said there’s downtown Davis.</p>
<p>In short: It’s what you make of it. There’s plenty of opportunities to have a social life here, but you need to put yourself out there.</p>
<p>Frat parties are not only for people in frats and sororities. Anyone can get into most, especially the big ones. In fact they want lots of people to go; that’s how they get rep. The only exception I can think of are the specialized frats because they are more communal groups than party groups.</p>
<p>But either way, just meet people and you will find parties. Every club parties, the band parties, sports teams party, even the campus jobs have parties. Party. Or just go to bars and stuff.</p>
<p>There are lots of opportunities to meet people, and there’s no such thing as “missing out” on meeting people within the first x days/x weeks/x months of being at UCD.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone in the right mind ever decides that yep, since they’ve got say, 5 friends, they’ve got enough and won’t socialize with anyone anymore. XD</p>
<p>People are a lot more open early Fall quarter, though. Friend groups/cliques start to solidify and people get harder to know after SOME time, but that isn’t to say that it’s impossible to make friends later. It could be harder though.</p>
<p>Regarding parties, if you try to find them, you’ll find them. You just have to know the right people. Hell, my freshman year, I spent more than a few weekends aimlessly wandering around, looking for loud houses or groups of friendly looking people (read: fellow drunk freshmen), and I stumbled upon plenty of house parties and new friends/contacts that way 
Just don’t be awkward or creepy about it. </p>
<p>That said, I’m not huge on clubs or social organizations either. I have a couple close friends here whom I live with but other than that I have a lot of random acquaintances, but nothing like the bigger closer friendships that I observe in orgs here like ethnic or greek or what have you. All in all, it is what you make of it.</p>
<p>Don’t do what I did and become a legitimate alcoholic your freshman year.</p>