<p>Is new student orientation necessary for someone in the engineering school? It seems a little expensive. What do you do there?</p>
<p>You register for your classes</p>
<p>Anything else? It seems like I can just register for classes online myself.</p>
<p>Enrollments open up only while you’re at orientation. If not, you wait like a month later to enroll which is bad news. You have to go to be honest.</p>
<p>If you skip orientation, you will be assigned a time to enroll in classes yourself online. I don’t know whether it will be any earlier or later than if you attended orientation. You can skip orientation if you’ll be okay jumping into UCLA without an orientation. You would be missing advice on classes and enrollment, campus myths, meeting people with your major and making friends, and many tours. If you think you’ll be okay without learning how to do the basics about being a student (e.g. enrollment, knowing where things are, socializing), or if you know someone who can teach you (older sibling or friend), then you can skip orientation. But I think most people will recommend you go to orientation, especially since the advisors at orientation will know how to do basically everything you will ask them, since they’re trained for it.</p>