<p>I'm an OOS student from Washington admitted to UCLA as an undergraduate Biochemistry major. Can any OOS student that currently attends UCLA tell me what made UCLA worth the cost for them in the end?</p>
<p>Not speaking from OOS perspective, but I do have former roommates who hail from China, and all they have dreamt about is going to UCLA and basking in its prestige.</p>
<p>going to UCLA undergraduate OOS is just crazy crazy crazy. Save your money. </p>
<p>I did my undergrad at UW and highly recommend it for its value.</p>
<p>I totally understand the crazy part about me going to UCLA, given that I’m an OOS who would have to pay big $$$. But I’m just sooooo tired of living in Washington. I’ve lived here for my entire 17 and 3/4 years of life. As far as UCLA is concerned, I find it quite admirable and noteworthy that a lot of UCLA’s students have huge aspirations in life. All the people I know enrolling/attending UW are either a) extremely lucky to get in or b) lackluster in what they plan to do in life (that’s if they even have any real goals at all). UW is just too “safe” for me to go to. I want a more opportunistic life that can give me more than just an education that my old old relatives had (assuming UW still deserves the reputation it once had). In essence, I think I’m looking for a change in scenery, perhaps for a few years or more.</p>
<p>I have a few friends who are oos, and from what I gathered, it’s just the general atmosphere that really made them want to come here and have to pay an extra 30k. They know how much of a strain they’re putting on their families, so that’s one of the factors of them working really hard in their classes, to make it all worth it, from their family’s perspective. I mean, UCLA has a huge variety of clubs and organizations, and a ton of resources too. Most importantly, it’s like you said, the change in scenery/the SoCal-ness, the feeling of moving on to something new and bigger, that makes it for them.</p>
<p>I don’t know what it’s like in Washington, but college itself may be a significant change of scenery. If you want to go to graduate school after undergrad, then UW shouldn’t limit you. If you worth hard and take advantage of your opportunities at UW, you can save some money.</p>