<p>Did it make you want to go to UCLA more or less? Did you like the housing, the opportunites, or nothing at all?</p>
<p>Personally, i loved the campus, albeit it was a bit small. I could definitely see myself attending there. I liked how UCLA really helps students be successful and use all the resources that LA has to offer. I'm a little afraid of how many people might be going but it seems as living in freshman dorm will be really fun.</p>
<p>I’ve already been there a couple of times, so the excitement level wasn’t as high as it could’ve been for me. </p>
<p>I thought the campus was small too… until I walked around and greatly underestimated how long it would take to get from Point A to Point B. I’m still very excited to attend, and I enjoyed the presentations that I saw. I wish I made better use of my time, since I wasted a lot of my day getting lost and walking back and forth. I’m honestly a little intimidated, the whole small fish in a big pond complex is finally hitting me.</p>
<p>I visited the campus before and fell in with the food. FOR SURE LOL. But thats not the only reason i’m going, they said that there are many research opportunities that we just need to have the will to go look for, which I want. Their housing tour made clarified many questions my friends and i had since we wanted to do plaza, private bath, triple with each other. I went to engineering day today too, and it was really informative, a little boring, but it had its funny small rivalry jokes at times. I never realized how much walking i’d have to do at ucla till yesterday… i thought i would get freshman 15 from the amazing food, but i think i’ll actually lose 15 pounds from the walking… so many stairs… One thing for sure… UCLA is most definitely larger than my high school and i walk like 1 minute to my classes everyday… Still CAN’T WAIT FOR THE FALLL ;]</p>
<p>Personally, I loved the campus setting. My dad and sister kept comparing Royce Hall with Stanford’s whatever (Sorry, I don’t know the name). And I thought the housing was great, I’m sorta excited to meet these people! And Considering those steps, I feel like I might lose 15. X: I saw the recreational area, and it was very nice.</p>
<p>^agreed, the Wooden Rec Center was really nice!! If I go to UCLA (which is the most likely scenario :), i’ll probably live in the residence halls. Can anyone tell me how the one big bathroom thing per floor works??? I didn’t get to see it in the housing tour and didn’t budget my time enough to ask housing. @neekzg, same here, I spent a lot of day walking back and forth from campus getting lost too.</p>
<p>I visited Rieber Hall. There is two big bathrooms each floor. The girl bathroom has 10 showers, I think 4 -5 sinks.</p>
<p>I just found this site [UCLA</a> student housing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA_student_housing]UCLA”>UCLA student housing - Wikipedia) via google search.</p>
<p>But they still have shower curtains and SOME private restrooms right (as in available to everyone but in a separate room)?</p>
<p>Yes, there is shower curtain for each shower. A seperate restroom. I did not go into the restroom to check.</p>
<p>glad to hear you guys enjoyed UCLA.</p>
<p>@overachiever92: for halls, normally there’s two giant restrooms, one for each sex. so if you live on the opposite side, you’ll have to walk over a bit. in sproul, since there is a north and south side, there are actually 4 bathrooms per floor. anyway, you’ll find that its great having one giant restroom as that’s where you’ll be meeting people quite a bit.</p>
<p>do you know if there are floor plans on UCLA housing webiste that I can find more info?</p>
<p>The way a hall’s bathroom works (at least in Rieber):
There are two bathrooms per “floor”, one for each sex (The north and south sides of a physical floor are considered completely separate floors administratively). There are six sinks per bathroom. You enter the bathroom into the sink area and can either turn one way to 5 or so private shower stalls (think bathroom stall setup with walls/locking door but with a shower curtain to separate the actual shower from the changing section of the stall) or the other way to the urinals and 4 bathroom stalls. An interesting note: at least in Rieber there are urinals in both the men’s and women’s restrooms because I guess every few years or so they switch what side is the women’s restroom and which side is the men’s.</p>
<p>I emailed UCLA housing and asked them i requested to live in residence halls, would i be guaranteed my request. They said no guarantee but they take preferences into consideration and said most freshman get placed in residential plaza. Is this last part about freshman to residential plazas really true?</p>
<p>When you fill out the housing form basically you rank two things: 1. Single, double or triple and 2. hall, plaza or suite. Generally you get at least one of your first choices. My son requested a triple in a residence hall and got a triple in a plaza. His floor on the plaza is very social and he is very happy. His floor is a mix of freshmen and upper classmen.</p>
<p>@kwwboarder, right! exactly what I saw in Rieber.
I went housing tour twice. The 2nd one I went was triple but private bathroom. I did not write down the name of the resident hall. do you know happen to know where I was? :-)</p>
<p>@tx5athome, so, on the housing application form, I will not be able to say which resident halls I want to live in?</p>
<p>No, you don’t pick which residence hall you want, just: hall, plaza or suite + single,double or triple.</p>
<p>But I think that when your a soph, jr., or sr., you’ll be able to list the preferences of which building you’d live in. Why do most freshman get placed in plazas, isn’t there more room in residence halls so wouldn’t more freshman get place in the halls?</p>
<p>[UCLA</a> Housing Tour - For Students](<a href=“UCLA Housing Tour - For Students”>http://www.uclahousingtour.com/)</p>
<p>has floor plans…</p>
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<p>There are 3 residence halls (not counting Dykstra next year) and 3 high rise plazas. There are effectively 9 smaller plazas, plus 2 sets of suites. Returning students probably take mostly plazas, but I would guess there end up being more left over spots in plazas.</p>
<p>And if you asked for a res hall triple your first year you would probably get it.</p>
<p>^thanks for the response. I think I’m gonna be a Bruin next year so I’m gonna ask for a residence hall triple, hopefully it all works out.</p>
<p>Here’s hoping for a res hall double (even though I probably won’t get one) :D</p>