<p>I dont know why we were shut down? What happened to freedom of speech? I thought this was for college students! Why would anyone shut down the 2nd most popular thread on the UC forum?!</p>
<p>Are there any transfer students out there that went to ucla orientation and thought it was worthless?</p>
<p>what is this? a petition to shut down ucla?</p>
<p>Won't let up? haha I think after a few weeks of actually attending UCLA, you might like it! Seems like the majority of people who do go to UCLA are quite happy. :)</p>
<p>lol, this thread isnt (wasnt, for the other thread that was deleted) meant to be hurtful. Its meant for SOMEONE at ucla (possibly administration) to read it and HOPEFULLY fix some of the issues (like orientation).</p>
<p>UCLA obviously sees nothing wrong with themselves, since this has been going on for quite some time. </p>
<p>Here are some suggestions: </p>
<p>Open up more classes
Hire more teachers
Hire QUALIFIED counselors (instead of the hoochie fat girl who claimed to be a "counselor")
Take some lessons from other state schools like UVA
stop charging 8 dollars for parking, that is just ridiculous!</p>
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<p>If you really want the administration to read this kind of thread, you will have a slightly better chance if you post this in UCLA thread where most, if not all, posters either attend or have attended UCLA. They'll be much more suggestive and know lot more about the problems and issues at UCLA than any of the new students here who've never attended a regular quarter there, including yourself and me.</p>
<p>Or better, you can start a rally in the Westwood regarding all the issues and complaints you got here. At least you'll be in the Daily Bruin the next day for people to laugh about.</p>
<p>P.S. oh yeah and in case you do decide to start the rally, make sure you make a banner with a big "UCLA SUCKS" writing on it. It'll show how much you care about the school enough to be so passionate about solving those issues.</p>
<p>to turn all this negative energy into positive, you should enroll at USC</p>
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<p>I agree with you entirely. You are a very wise person.</p>
<p>LOL! i dont like usc. Usc is in the ghetto! Their campus is congested. I dont know how they can fit 15,000 students into a 150 acre campus, which is half the size of ucla. On top of that, the school is over priced, and the education is merely as good as, lets say, University of Wisconsin. </p>
<p>and to put the cherry on top, usc got caught on loan lending scandals!</p>
<p>USC also needs to take lessons from other top public schools!</p>
<p>I have been saying negative things about ucla, but ucla is WAY better than usc! lol</p>
<p>lol @ UCLA being any diff then UVA. State school = state school....</p>
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<p>nuh uh, uva is the only public school in the nation that offers a no-loan program for low income applicants, no matter if they are out of state students.</p>
<p>ps. i know usc isnt a public school, but its sad that a PUBLIC school can offer no loans to out of state students, but a PRIVATE school with more funding cant!</p>
<p>mojo's mindset:</p>
<p>-You will automatically succeed in life if you go to an Ivy League school
-If the school is in the East Coast, it's automatically an elite school (private or public)
-UC Berkeley is part of the Ivy League
-All other publics (excluding the ones in the East Coast) are worthless piece of crap schools
-If you go to UCLA, you will starve to death out in the street</p>
<p>the question is.... THEN WHY IN THE HELL DID HE CHOOSE TO ATTEND UCLA?</p>
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i believe he's addressed that</p>
<p>learn to read :P</p>
<p>I think in the beginning he was under the impression that ucla would be a good fit for him. But after his terrible experience at ucla orientation he decided that ucla sucked and it wasn't a good fit for him after all.</p>
<p>i have a similar situation to you mojo...</p>
<p>when I was about 7 years old my parents took me out to olive garden for the first time. I had heard so many great things about olive garden and why it was just the perfect restaurant for me. So I went there and within about 5 minutes a waitress spilled 3 jugs of ice cold water on me by mistake. My hopes and dreams were drenched by the cold reality of the the situation. Obviously being only 7 years old and still not mature enough to make rational decisions, I swore off olive garden for nearly a decade.</p>
<p>It wasn't until I was 17 and much more mature that I finally decided to give the place a second chance. And guess what? I loved it! In fact, now I go there quite frequently! Point being, grow up a little and don't discount such a wonderful opportunity on the basis of ONE rough day.</p>
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<p>actually ever since the beginning he has always been biased against UCLA. He made statements of how ucla is a second-class school to Cal and Cornell and has never believed that ucla was good enough for him. A good fit? How could he ever thought that UCLA would be a good fit for him when he himself looks down on it in the first place?</p>
<p>dhl3, i never said that any school in the east coast, whether it is public or private, is a good school. There are better funded schools in the east, however, since they are older and have very dedicated alumni.</p>
<p>I dont believe that going to ucla will mean that you will starve to death. I think its a good school, with an overblown reputation.</p>
<p>poppin, i have a similar story. When i was little, i tried el pollo loco, and i thought it was too spicy and i never wanted to go there again; now its my fav restaurant =) There was no diffence in the level of maturity, but it was just a matter of circumstance ;)</p>
<p>ps. i dont know why you are so defensive, dhl. I have stated this a million times. I thought ucla was more of a fit because the location, it was less expensive than cal (esp. in terms of dorming price), and i thought that by being in the "honors program" i would be able to enroll in smaller classes (Cal doesnt have an honors program). When i got to orientation, i realized it was all a lie.</p>
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<p>Yet one of your complaints was how UCLA was so close to home that you won't have the chance to experience the World beyond SoCal.</p>
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<p>I thought money wasn't the issue for you since i remember you saying that you'll be paying just about equal or very similar amount of money no matter which school you go (Cal, Cornell, UCLA).</p>
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<p>If this was such a huge factor in making your decision to attend UCLA perhaps you should've inquired more about the program to current ucla students in ucla board before making such crucial decsion of your life. I dunno about you but when I was making decision between Cal and UCLA, I literally spent weeks researching each school's academics and programs, visiting counselors of each school to ask questions, and asking current ucla and cal students about the reality of each school's x matter.</p>
<p>Although I have heard many criticisms about UCLA's orientation, you shouldn't totally blame it on UCLA's part because you also carry some of the burden for depending solely on orientation alone (by which you are too late to make any second thoughts about choosing school) to have your questions answered. </p>
<p>I'm sorry if I'm being overly defensive, but I think you too aren't doing very well on properly addressing the school's issues. You can do better than making titles like "xyz sucks" because that's basically asking for trouble from the xyz fans, like me ;)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1j9HQ_uUtc%5B/url%5D">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1j9HQ_uUtc</a></p>
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I thought money wasn't the issue for you since i remember you saying that you'll be paying just about equal or very similar amount of money no matter which school you go (Cal, Cornell, UCLA).
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wrong. when i said that they were going to be equal, i said I THINK. By the time i got the final financial aid award by Cornell, Cornell (7,000) was twice the amount of ucla's preliminary award (3,500). However, when ucla released the efan, i realized it was the same cost (7,000)! ucla is a liar!</p>
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i did, in the tours they said that the classes were small...lol it was all lies!</p>
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<p>i said this AFTER i realized ucla was the wrong choice for me!</p>
<p>I haven't checked this site in a couple months, but thank you dhl! haha mojo, I too remember you hating on UCLA multiple times while talking about how amaaaaazing Cal is. You should probably be eating crow right now rather than continuing on these silly rants, lol.</p>
<p>I don't know why you had trouble getting classes...I'm an Econ/Poli Sci double major, and although both are considered among the most impacted, I had no problem finding courses. I'm sure it helped that I already completed my lower divs and several upper divs at my previous school. If you had previously finished your lower divs, you would've been eligible for more classes that aren't yet filled, and thus wouldn't have had that problem :-P</p>
<p>As stated on The Princeton Review's site, "If someone is not happy at UCLA, then they are not happy with their own life. It's not the school." Haha, I sure hope you can fix your attitude problem before heading down there. </p>
<p>Anyway, this was a waste of my time.</p>