<p>Hey guys, I'm from Pennsylvania. I'm looking forward to transferring to UDC or UCLA in the upcoming fall semester. I guess I'm really just curious about what I should expect when arriving at these schools and the differences.</p>
<p>The deadline passed for fall 2013. You would have had to apply by November 30th.</p>
<p>Yupper, there is no evidence to suggest that she did not apply by the November 30th deadline.</p>
<p>It will likely be a very different experience for you. The best way to find out is to look on UCD’s website.</p>
<p>I already applied. I’ve been to California many times. My uncle lives in San Diego. I love it there but because of my major, UCD & UCLA really caught my eye. What’s it like there? Is there a lot of people? What are the classes like?</p>
<p>Just know that non-California community college transfers are highly limited at UC schools, because most of the transfer slots are reserved for CCC students by state law. So don’t fall in love before you get an admission letter in hand. :)</p>
<p>I looked at all of the websites, photos, and such but never really talked to anybody who has actually went there.</p>
<p>Polarscribe, I’m aware of that. I have a 4.0 GPA, a ton of community service, excellent recommendations and 3 of my family members have graduated from UCD as well as UCLA; two of them coming from Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>@econ981 there was also no evidence to suggest that she did. </p>
<p>@ op doesn’t seem like you’re getting much help here. Perhaps there will be more helpful posters in the forum for ucla and ucd. I would try posting there as well if you have not already. Good luck from a fellow Pennsylvanian :)</p>
<p>I haven’t attended either school, but I grew up in Northern California, so I can comment from that perspective. You really couldn’t be applying to two more different schools in the UC system.</p>
<p>UCLA is a huge urban university in the second-largest city in the United States. If you want full-on urban life and the Los Angeles experience, there you have it, UCLA is the place. Big-time college sports in the Pac-12. Glitz, glamour, Hollywood just over the hill, etc. UCLA isn’t “right on” the coast, but it’s not very far from the beaches.</p>
<p>UC Davis is pretty much the polar opposite. It’s a large rural campus (which actually began as the University Farm) in a mid-sized college town (pop. 66,000) in the Central Valley, about 15 miles from the state capital of Sacramento and 75 miles from San Francisco. Sports are de-emphasized and in a much lower-profile league. Very bike-friendly community, in part because the surrounding landscape is flatter than Kansas. Also, the city is on a high-frequency Amtrak line with hourly service to the Bay Area and multiple-daily service to Reno/Tahoe.</p>
<p>They’re both very big schools - UC Davis has about 32,000 students and UCLA has 40,000. So don’t expect intimate anything at either one.</p>
<p>Legacy is not considered in the admission process at all so your family going there means nothing. Also letters of recommendation are not part of the application so those too will not carry any weight in admissions. </p>
<p>What WILL matter is that 4.0 and hopefully your pre-reqs transfer over. Your community service will help as long as it recent. </p>
<p>As for what the schools are like polarscribe nailed it.</p>