<p>I have orientation this thursday.</p>
<p>Problem: Class every Tuesday on Thursday from 8:30 to 10:30. Orientation sign up at 7:30am.</p>
<p>Is it ok if I arrive at 7:30, sign up, go to class and then come back around 10:30 to join in the orientation in the middle or must I stay through the whole thing?</p>
<p>Yea you probably can. They spend the first three hours showing you videos and bringing in speakers. You won't miss out on anything important at all. You don't meet your orientation counselors until 11am, which is probably the most important thing of the orientation because they help you with your schedule.</p>
<p>dhl3, I didn't know this is your first quarter at UCLA. I've seen you post in the past.</p>
<p>I would recommend skipping your class, if that's possible. If you can't you have to be a little creative in finding your OC. It gets a little hectic since they move around. And likely, your OC will bring the group to his/her room for sign-ups.</p>
<p>If you have your OC's email, send them a quick note and ask them how you can locate the group/OC.</p>
<p>i would recommend skipping orientation, you dont need it. I went to orientation, left at 4:30 and registered at home around 8 pm. The counselors, as i mentioned on "ucla sucks" thread are worthless, and u might as well pick out the classes yourself (since you must obviously be smart enough to know the requirements of your own major)</p>
<p>Agree with mojojojo69. The only possible important thing at orientation is signing up for classes, which is really self-manageable. I thought the transfer orientation was a waste of time and money.</p>
<p>If you skip orientation, you might run into trouble when enrolling into classes that have prerequisites. OCs can override some of the prereqs. </p>
<p>Just be sure to bring along with you, class descriptions, syllabi, and catalogs if you need to petition classes (this should show up on the DPR). In other words, if there is any class at UCLA that wasnt fulfilled by a similar class at your previous institution, but you feel that it should be; you should come prepared with syllabi and class descriptions to the department counselors/advisors, and they might be able to waive. </p>
<p>Overall, the food was good, the workshops were informative, and the people were friendly. It was a good experience.</p>
<p>most classes dont have pre-reqs, and if they do, and u fulfilled them, u got nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>Overall, the food was bad, the counselors sucked, the information was stuff that you already knew, and i wasted my time.</p>
<p>I agree with sparky about enrolling in classes. That's the only reason why I went to orientation. I needed my oc and my departmental counselor to override the prereq's for my classes. Even if you do fulfill the prereq requirement, ucla does not have record of you fulfilling it. The dpr they give you is not directly linked to their system, so every time a transfer enroll in a class with a prereq you need to go to a counselor to clear that prereq.</p>
<p>If the class has pre-reqs that you completed at your CC, you may run into problems. My counselor (for my major, not the OC) said that for some reason the system doesn't recognize the pre-reqs completed at CCs; so even though a class is shown as equivalent for the pre-req on your DPR, you will not be able to enroll in a class for which it is a pre-req. You'll need a PTE (permission to enroll if I recall?) number to override it.
I enrolled in biochem at orientation and later decided to drop. I was wondering if they were just making it up to scare us and force us to stay at orientation, so I tried enrolling again and I wasn't allowed to do it.</p>
<p>save your money, dont go. the "counselors" are students who just graduated this year. mine told me not to take more than 12-14 units... ive spent the last 2 years at another UC and have never taken less than 15 and have been taking upper divs since fall of last year. i went home and enrolled in 19 units but i enjoyed being talked down to for a day as if i was some sort of retard</p>
<p>Thank You Silverbullet!</p>
<p>my counselor was some hoochie fat girl who didnt know what the hell she was talkin about.</p>
<p>However, since i came from the semester system, i chose to take 13 units, just to test the waters. But i still thought they sucked.</p>
<p>how important is it to bring Bruincard to the orientation? what if I dont have it yet? I applied for it late.</p>
<p>its not important at all, in fact, u wont even need it. The bruincard serves for lunch purposes only. But if u bring like 5 bux to eat, u'll be ok.</p>
<p>alright thanx :)
i was worried...</p>
<p>Yeah they make it all a big deal at first about not bringing your bruincard. But it's totally fine.</p>
<p>Is it possible for non-ucla admits to go to this orientation?</p>
<p>I wanna go, but I have no one to go with and going alone would make me ronrey</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>don't go to orientation...you can sign up for classes yourself.</p>
<p>non-ucla students cannot go.
i mean, no one can keep them from following along on tours or whatever, but they can't stay in the dorms. unless you like, sneak them in, but they won't have anywhere to sleep...</p>
<p>If he is referring to the transfer orientation, there's no overnight dorm stay. The transfer orientation is only one day long.</p>
<p>Is it worth it to fly/drive down from the bay area to go to the transfer orientation? </p>
<p>Also, what is the date(s) of orientation?</p>