<p>Newly admitted to UCLA and looking to decide between UCI CHP or UCLA. I'm a cc transfer btw... </p>
<p>Have a question for the Bruins on this board: Anyone here know how impacted Poli Sci is at UCLA? How difficult is it getting the classes you need to graduate on-time with the budget cuts and everything? I'm really happy about being admitted to UCLA but I'm worried about having to stay there for an extra quarter or two just because I can't get the class I need to graduate due to schedule conflicts or classes being full. Is this somethng you guys are concerned about as well? I'm a non-trad. student, so graduating in 2 years after transfer is very important to me. Inputs from you guys would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Political science classes seem to fill faster than those in other departments, but with a decent enrollment time and the major declared, I wouldn’t imagine that it is really a problem. Given the abundance of units that you’ll probably enter with, you’ll get to enroll at a time when you should be able to get most, if not all, of what you want and need. With the two pass enrollment system (you enroll in ten units on the first pass and then more after everyone else enrolls in up to ten), it can be a little tricky at times to determine which of your desired classes should be enrolled in first. There is a bit of strategy involved in these decisions sometimes. </p>
<p>If you happen to make mistakes in initial enrollment, however, you can still use the waitlists to your advantage. Since the waitlists at UCLA are dynamic, as people drop, spaces open up. This is true even in more popular classes. Every time I have placed my name on a waitlist, I have been able to enroll in the class before the first meeting. But even if you aren’t enrolled on the first day and the professors claim that someone has to drop for you to be enrolled, students appear to magically transfer to the enrolled column or Permission to Enroll numbers suddenly surface. Professors and TAs are surprisingly accommodating in ways I thought were only possible at the community college level here.</p>
<p>The Polisci department slashed its graduation requirements big time to save money; as a result you should have no problem getting all the upper division credits you need to get in and get out in five or six quarters.</p>