<p>Hi! Um, I'm really kind of freaking out about this right now. The UCLA Portal wasn't working for me all weekend, and now I've signed up for the orientation on the 23rd of August. Should I be worried that the classes will have filled out by then?! I'm scared I won't be taking the classes I need or something. What do I do?! How do I come to Orientation prepared and ready to get the classes I need?</p>
<p>Any advice would be good.</p>
<p>There’s a set amount of classes reserved for each session so you don’t have to worry.</p>
<p>Oh, my god. Really? Thank you so much! That’s such a relief. </p>
<p>I’ve been reading over the internet and everybody keeps talking about how the earliest dates are the best and there’s no classes left at the end. Is there anything I should probably research about and know before going to orientation?</p>
<p>As long as you’re keeping up with the deadlines on [New</a> Bruins - Freshman New Student Checklist - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/NewBruins/NSG_Freshmen.htm]New”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/NewBruins/NSG_Freshmen.htm), you should be fine in terms of preparation for orientation.</p>
<p>Just to clarify about enrollment for classes, only some of the high demand courses are going to have reserved spots for each session. And while you are not guaranteed a spot in any one class, you will have the same opportunity to enroll in those high demand courses as everyone else. Go to [UCLA</a> New Student & Transition Programs - First Year Students](<a href=“http://www.newstudents.ucla.edu/firstyearstudents.htm#enrollment]UCLA”>http://www.newstudents.ucla.edu/firstyearstudents.htm#enrollment) for more detailed info.</p>
<p>I was signing up for orientation the other day and I noticed that the session in September is not on the list. Does that mean it’s full already? It’ll be a big problem if it’s full cause I live out of state. If I go to an earlier session I would have 20 days left nowhere to stay before the quarter begins. That sucks. Anyone could give me any advice?</p>
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<p>Varies by department. </p>
<p>But this was an absolute lie for me. I thought they would have, but they didn’t. I majored in Math/Econ. </p>
<p>Sorry to bring the bad news, but if you got a late orientation and are in a particularly impacted major, you may have trouble getting the classes you want. I was lucky to have a friend who was graduating at the time hold the courses that I needed. (signed up before, and dropped it right before I added it). Otherwise, I would have had to take courses that didn’t apply to my major.</p>
<p>Milky-You fly in for orientation then go home until move in.
UCLA doesn’t want you to hang around, dorms aren’t open for fall students.</p>
<p>For sessions 109-112, there is a stay-over program where you pay $41 per night (meals and lodging included). </p>
<p>Just wanted to reiterate that the New Student and Transition Program Dept is working with a lot of the other departments at UCLA to try to make enrolling for classes as fair as possible for all incoming students, so each person gets the same opportunity to enroll in high-demand courses, no matter which session you’re in.</p>
<p>Oh that sucks cause my home is on the other side of the world. And $41 for twenty nights is quite a large amount of money. Especially I’m paying it just for somewhere to stay. Sigh.</p>
<p>Yeah, but it’s definitely cheaper than getting a hotel and having to pay for food, etc., so I was just throwing it out there as an option. You’ll have to figure it out, but it might (most likely will?) also be cheaper than flying back and forth twice, so there’s that as well.</p>
<p>Perhaps stay with a family friend, new found distant relative.</p>
<p>When my son signed up his only choice was a late session in Aug. However he was able to call the orientation office and get his session changed. They told him that openings free up a lot due to the ongoing changes people are making.</p>
<p>three years ago, there was only a late aug orientation left for dd. We called up registration bc obviously not all 5,000 freshman will go to orientation-- so how do those students register? </p>
<p>We got told that yes, by late aug some classes would already be full. We were told we could do it online by “lottery” meaning if we decide to do it that way, we will get a computer generated date that we can go online and register. Whatever date you get, is what you will have to use, it can be before aug or after aug. </p>
<p>We decided to take our chances, correctly assuming the odds of the online date assigned to us being later that the late Aug orientation date was not very likely. </p>
<p>We got early July and did it online. And she got better classes and times than she would have if she had gone to august orientation . . and saved the $400 cost of orientation (which we were willing to pay it had her orientation been earlier eg June or July…but didn’t think it was worth the cost to go to an orientation date where many of the classes are already full).</p>
<p>A caveat: one of the benefits of going to orientation is getting to know other students and getting a counselor to help you decide what classes to take. You do not get those benefits if you register on online (But again just do some research, you should know what undergrad general classes you – or any freshman-- needs to take, and doing it without a counselor’s help is only for the first quarter of the 12 quarters you will register for).</p>