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I must be doing something wrong. I would love to have 300 students show up to my office hours! </p>
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Well, enrollment statistics and how the campus actually looks/feels are often different. Despite a 15% Hispanic enrollment, UCLA feels about 50/50 white/Asian and very different from LA in general. (Spotting a black student on campus is often like playing Where’s Waldo?)</p>
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People are often referring to a frame of mind rather than actual hair color with that descriptor.</p>
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Just going by UCLA, I think there is very much a set clothing style. For guys, for example, skinny jeans and flannel/plaid shirts are popular in the winter, and (jean) shorts and tank-tops appear in the spring/summer. I can count on one hand the number of Mohawks or interestingly dyed hair I’ve seen around campus. </p>
<p>Most publics and especially the UCs are large and diverse enough that pretty much any student can find his/her niche, however. One glimpse at the many organizations along Bruin Walk or Sproul is enough to verify that. </p>
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Attending a UC is what you make of it. I have some students who love their experience and some who are, well, not as happy with it. (I had one student inform me I was his first instructor he felt comfortable approaching during office hours. This horrified me, though it is a tribute to how highly students regard their professors and/or are intimidated by them.) As anywhere, there are good professors and bad professors. I do think that, at least here at UCLA, the focus is by no means on undergraduate education or even teaching in general, and majoring in a smaller department will not necessarily alleviate that.</p>