<p>Oh wait there are none. Go Bruins.</p>
<p>Loosely in order:
- Classes are too big. I remember my Chem 20A class being like 300-400 students, and that was for only one of the lecture sections. It never really got any better for me, since I started out in MIMG, moved on to Econ, then Statistics. I think the smallest class I ever had was a Stat Class of 30 students, which was definitely very nice.
- For what you’re paying, it would be better to just go private.
- People are way too materialistic and shallow.
- TA’s aren’t the best people to ask questions.
- I don’t like how the campus is spread out on a hill.
- A lot of people are ranking whores (or prestige whores) when the graduate schools are really world class.
- People aren’t as smart as everyone believes.
- Lots of the lecture halls are really old.
- I don’t like the dorms.
- I’m not receiving the world class education that I was promised.</p>
<p>^ And that pretty much sums up the attitude you should NOT have going into UCLA, thank you for listening…</p>
<p>^You’re right. I didn’t have that attitude when I first entered, only after being here a few years.</p>
<p>uh oh… got em!</p>
<p>I don’t get why the OP started this thread.</p>
<p>Anyone who thinks UCLA is perfect is delusional. UCLA has its advantages and disadvantages like every other school.</p>
<p>Don’t go there if it doesn’t offer your major, ahhaha ah duh. :–)</p>
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large classes doesn’t really affect the quality of the professor or education.</p>
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There’s no decent private university - anywhere - with tuition at 11k</p>
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some people are sure, but there are also plenty of people who aren’t.</p>
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depends on the TA no?</p>
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i agree with this, but wouldn’t cite it as a reason not to go there.</p>
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this is true (i’m one of them) and i imagine many people on CC fall into this category. The undergrad education is pretty decent as well, not only for the faculty you get access to, but also for the resources that are available to you.</p>
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That’s not true. Nearly every single day i run into contact with at least one new person who impresses the ***** out of me there. People there are very impressive, and if it’s one thing i’ve learned there, it’s never underestimate anyone there.</p>
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meh</p>
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get an apartment?</p>
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just wondering: what exactly do you think a world class university entails? if you want smaller class sizes and amazing resources you should have gone private. The state does its best, which is pretty damn good if you ask me, to provide a high quality education at a low price. I think it succeeds in doing this. Sure UCLA has its problems, but so does any university.</p>
<p>Pretty much everything you listed as flaws are things anyone can figure with some research about the university, a visit to the campus, and some common sense. “TA’s aren’t the best people to ask questions.”… duh “Classes are too big”: It’s UCLA deal with it. “A lot of people are ranking whores (or prestige whores) when the graduate schools are really world class.”: It’s UCLA deal with it. “People are way too materialistic and shallow.”: It’s L.A, of course they are.</p>
<p>You’d run into large intro classes at research-oriented private u’s also.</p>
<p>Sounds to me though, that you would have been better (self-) served to have selected a Cal State in addition to it being cheaper, or an LAC if you weren’t worried about cost. Since you mentioned ‘for what you’re paying,’ I’d say of the two, a Cal State would have been your best option.</p>
<p>You started out in MIMG, and switched to Econ and are now in Stats. Your attending a Cal State would have been in a less competitive atmosphere, which would probably have led to less switching of majors to find one (perhaps) that you could best handle. </p>
<p>Granted, a life-science major at CSU wouldn’t have the options of a UCLA or UC grad in general, eg, med/grad school. But you might have been able to stick if a MIMG major is what you really desired (or whatever CSU offers that might be close to this) with decent options afterward – I’ve heard of a couple people who xfered out of UCLA’s life sciences because it was too competitive to CSU campuses and still became MDs.</p>
<p>There are also more trade majors at CSU to help someone like yourself who is probably looking for a place to fit in and therefore led to your having a more satisfactory college life wrt academics and would have led to a better overall frame of mind at present.</p>
<p>I don’t know what your professional plans are, but when you get out in the real world, I predict you’ll look back at your experience at UCLA and remember it in fondness.</p>
<p>parking 10char</p>
<p>OK. I might somehow find a way to agree with your reasons, BUT how does anything have to do with UCLA being spread over a hill have to do with being a reason not to attend it? =S That’s way beyond me. Would you rather go to Cornell which is in nowhere land and temperatures are in minus - in fahrenheit!? I think it’s rather UCLA’s charm the way it’s spread out on the hill.</p>
<p>ALSO, lecture halls are really OLD? And then you say, a private institution would be better? What about Harvard which is more than 400 years old? Don’t you think its halls would be OLDER since UCLA isn’t even a 100 years old!? That’s an absolutely absurd and invalid reason to not attend UCLA.</p>
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<p>agree 10char</p>