<p>I just transferred out of my cc with 61 units, and now i am enrolled at ucla. If i do a quarter and i happen not to like it, transfer to another school, and do 2 years at another school ( + the quarter at ucla) does that look bad for grad school application?</p>
<p>Transferring out of a CC is one thing: normal and expected. </p>
<p>Bailing out of UCLA after one quarter might be construed as any number of negative things that boil down to "lack of serious attitude toward education". (One might even gather that from your expression "happen not to like it".)</p>
<p>UCLA is a great school - focus on the positives, study hard, and those 2 years will fly by.</p>
<p>but how would lack of serious attitude toward education come about if i said i would spend 2 yrs at another school, after the ucla quarter?</p>
<p>I am just wondering because I am considering transferring out; i dont like those big classes.</p>
<p>don't back out because of big lcasses. you won't have big classes much if you're going to be a junior and senior. I don't know about UCLA but you can't transfer from Duke without putting two semesters in anyway...so by then you'd be a senior. UCLA is a great school - if you want to be intimately involved with professors work in a lab, stick with it and recognize the school doesn't make the experience, the effort you put into it will make the experience. Don't transfer now, you'll never have time to make the experience meanginful. Take these two years, pour yourself into it, and you will love it, regardless of the school. UCLA is wonderful just give enough of yourself to make it wonderful</p>
<p>I am a junior and i am enrolled in classes with 300 students. UCLA has TAs for upper division courses, its not a great school at all. </p>
<p>I am seeking transfer as the 2nd semester spring transfer, before i reach senior status, so that i am still eligible for transfer. If i transfer, it will most likely be to an LAC, private like emory, or uva.</p>
<p>i don't really know what UCLA is not a great school means. If you want a small LAC, why did you go to UCLA, transferring will make you look indecisive, unsure of what you want, which is how it comes across already</p>
<p>i chose ucla, because like many schools, they lie about how they treat transfers. We got the worst priority in terms of enrollment (last pick)</p>
<p>we also dont have small class sizes like they said in their tours.</p>
<p>parking is terrible, and i could go on and on. </p>
<p>for more information, head over to the transfer forum, check under the sub forum called "UC Transfers" and click on UCLA sucks part 2, its a huge thread discussing how its a bad school. or go here <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=378993%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=378993</a></p>
<p>You are probably wondering why i didnt think about this BEFORE transferring, but truth be told, they feed you a bunch of lies and i bought them all.</p>
<p>OK. I looked at that thread, and basically it is you complaining non-stop about UCLA and everyone else asking you to chill out. I think you should heed their advice. I'll be perfectly honest - my impression is that you're an undergrad who didn't get into his/her first choice school, is a bit immature, and is seeking people who will support (unsuccessfully, I might add) his/her poor decisions.</p>
<p>If you transfer from UCLA, it may hurt your chances applying to grad school. Not definitely, but maybe. Also, UCLA has a great reputation, which matters in grad applications. Those professors are respected, and letters of rec from them matter. Your class choices will improve, as will your class sizes.</p>
<p>Sorry to be brutally honest, but it really seems that you're unwilling to face reality here.</p>
<p>i got into all the schools i applied...amherst, cornell, berkeley and ucla. So i honestly dont know what you are talking about. I just feel like i made the wrong choice and i should have gone to a smaller school... I am already in talks with several schools, including amherst about attempting to re-transfer.</p>
<p>You dont know half of the story, and you are already making assumptions...</p>
<p>perhaps i shouldnt take advice from people on these boards.</p>
<p>Either way, you're unreasonably upset. UCLA did not set out to "get you". If you wanted an LAC experience, you should have gone to one. No one in their right mind would assume that you can get an LAC experience at a large state research school. Transfer if you want to, but you asked for advice - on two different boards now - and got it, like it or not.</p>
<p>i didnt ask for help on the 1st thread, i was just stating the facts that this school is not what people make it out to be.</p>
<p>and like i said, you dont know the story, so i dont think u can judge my decision. I didnt ask what you thought of my decision; i was asking for what you thought of transferring twice.</p>
<p>And I told you. And you got upset. And incidentally, you are the one who linked to the other thread - I did not search for it.</p>
<p>Do not ask people their opinion and then get angry and confrontational when they give it. This is a public forum and I chose to answer your question comprehensively because I felt it required that type of answer. I certainly hope you don't react this way to everyone who criticizes you. if so, you would certainly do well to stay in large classes. You need the buffer.</p>
<p>Bad parking? You're transferring from a great school partly for bad parking? Ride a bike, take the bus, walk!</p>
<p>As others pointed out, class sizes tend to get smaller the more you advance. If you really really want to leave, then by all means.</p>
<p>While it might hurt your chances with grad schools, it will probably not have a significant effect. You can explain to whatever schools you're applying to the reasons for transferring. </p>
<p>But what if you go to a different school and dislike it just as much? You seem to be bothered by pretty trivial stuff. Make sure you're not acting on impulse and think this through.</p>
<p>thanks oops jo. I thought that i could give good reasons for transferring and my chances shouldnt be THAT damaged.</p>
<p>My reasons are not only parking, as i mentioned in the thread. The quality of the administration is very poor, and on top of that, the classes DO NOT get smaller as you advance, I am taking what would be a 300-leveled class, with 300 students.</p>
<p>In looking at the UCLA schedule of classes, all the upper-level classes are capped at 20-25 at the most. Additionally, I saw no classes numbered in the 300s. Poor administration can - and will - be found everywhere. There was poor administration at my LAC. It's a common college experience.</p>
<p>Again, transfer if you want, but I think you really need to figure out what you want, or you'll be just as unhappy at the next school.</p>
<p>lol, duh you wont see any 300 level classes, they are all 100, but 100s are equivalent to 300-leveled classes.</p>
<p>And, i dont even know what you are looking at. Go to <a href="http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule%5B/url%5D">http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule</a> and dont be checking out programs like spanish or something that will obviously NOT have impacted classes. You need to check like psychology, sociology, etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/detselect.aspx?termsel=07F&subareasel=PSYCH&idxcrs=0129E+++%5B/url%5D">http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/detselect.aspx?termsel=07F&subareasel=PSYCH&idxcrs=0129E+++</a>
<a href="http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/detselect.aspx?termsel=07F&subareasel=PSYCH&idxcrs=0187A+++%5B/url%5D">http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/detselect.aspx?termsel=07F&subareasel=PSYCH&idxcrs=0187A+++</a></p>
<p>those are all 300-leveled classes at other universities...and they arent 300 students...right? ;)?</p>
<p>I just picked a random sample, there are way more than that!</p>
<p>Actually, I see both 100 and 200 level classes (and the link you gave is the link I looked at). 100-level classes, according to the UCLA department websites, are frosh-soph level classes. 200-level classes are junior-senior level classes. I looked at anthropology, history, sociology (your professed major), and biology. All were capped at small numbers.</p>
<p>Perhaps you should meet with your advisor about your concerns. I suspect you need guidance within the system. That's not unusual for transfer students. Apart from that, your question has been answered. If you simply want to complain about your school, this is not the board to do it. We have all been more than helpful and tolerant.</p>
<p>200 level are graduate students. 100s are juniors and seniors.</p>
<p>Here is an example: PSYCH 204D</p>
<p>if you go here <a href="http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/subdet.aspx?srs=728033200&term=07F&session=%5B/url%5D">http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/subdet.aspx?srs=728033200&term=07F&session=</a></p>
<p>and see the enrollment restrictions:</p>
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Enrollment Restrictions:
1. GRADUATE STUDENTS
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<p>u will see that 200 leveled classes are only for grad students.</p>
<p>Also, sociology 230</p>
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Enrollment Restrictions:
1. SOCIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENTS
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</p>
<p>i dont know where you get your info. All the 200 leveled (graduate students only) are capped to small classes 15-20 because they are GRADUATE students. Not junior and senior.</p>
<p>Im telling u, ucla lies!.</p>
<p>Look, has your question been answered? Yes. Do you need further advising from your school? I think so. Move on, man.</p>
<p>No, i wont move on because you keep trying to say that I am wrong, which I am not. You are trying to allude that i need help from my school. Thats not what i need; i am smart enough to figure out how things work, and they DONT work how you think they do (200 are small classes for juniors and seniors, since i just proved they are for graduate students only)</p>
<p>All upper division courses for undergrad are 100-300 students, and thats not what i like.</p>