<p>I need to visit UCLA and stay with someone there in a dorm. I want to do this for one our two nights so I can get a good feel for the overall campus, its social and academic life. Is there something I can do to arrange this? An office I can contact? Just anything like that. Replies appreciated.</p>
<p>I would contact the administration office and ask. I am sure they have some way of putting you in contact with someone.</p>
<p>As UCLA is a public university, it may not offer those overnight programs that most private universities; UCLA does not offer overnight stays because of the scheer volume of students.</p>
<p>You don't need to stay overnight for UCLA. You'll get a hang of the campus in a few hours; it either makes an impression on you or don't. My experience with my friends and others is that you either like UCLA or you hate it and only takes a few hours of walking to determine.</p>
<p>If you're a junior, then you should try a pre-college program. I recommend Summer Discovery@UCLA where you spend 6 weeks there taking classes; SD@UCLA also takes you around the area for touristy stuff.</p>
<p>or if you make state finals for the freshman alumni scholar, it is 2 days 1 night, and you get to dorm with a current alumni scholar.</p>
<p>yeah - just come walk around for a few hours while class is in session. Look at the registrar's site for a lower-div (number under 100) class that you might be interested and go sit in on it (as long as its a decently big class, no one will notice).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/%5B/url%5D">http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/</a>
just highlight "winter 2005" and then find a subject you like.</p>
<p>When I wanted to see UCLA I honestly just drove down there and walked around the campus. I however only live 45 minutes away and it was really not that big of a deal. I want to go to UCLA, and hopefully well be in the fall, however you might be let down as it is not one of the more incredable looking schools. It's not an ugly school but it does in places have a very Los Angeles feel to it.</p>
<p>yes there are some pretty ugly buildings, I'll give you that (::cough:: Bunche), but most of them are very nice. All the new buildings are great. The new lecture halls in Physics and Astronomy are sweet.</p>
<p>Personally, I freaking love the campus. And this is coming from a guy that has spent a lot of time walking around what is regarded as one of the nicest campuses in America...Stanford.</p>
<p>But I also keep in mind that UCLA is better situated to the ocean, night life and other fun than Stanford.</p>
<p>My only real gripe about the UCLA campus is what goes on just outside of campus -- the Greek houses. They are deplorable. I can't believe the UCLA Prez has done nothing about it. Just outside of campuses are tons of Greeks and other student type apartments and the yards are disgusting. That is one thing you rarely if ever see at Stanford. But their Greek housing is ON campus.</p>
<p>They really should demolish the frat houses and replace them with a either a library or an additional parking lot.</p>
<p>haha yeah cause thats all we need here - more parking lots. I know more about campus geography than I care to thanks to my job, and we have plenty of parking lots (on and off campus) lol. But I agree, the frat houses are disgusting - there should be some aesthetic standards, but oh well.</p>
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Personally, I freaking love the campus. And this is coming from a guy that has spent a lot of time walking around what is regarded as one of the nicest campuses in America...Stanford.
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Wow, perceptions can differ! I thought UCLA had a beautiful campus, but Stanford to me looks like Taco-Bell architecture and the grounds are covered with weeds outside of the main area. Its Pierce JC with a better rep. Personally I have never been so disappointed with a college campus as when I visited Stanford. Give me UCLA, Cal, Harvard, etc. over the Farm.</p>
<p>I thought UC Davis was known as "The Farm"...</p>
<p>stanford is the farm... i know when we sing songs on the bus back from rose bowl games (im in the marching band), theres a song referring to the "leland stanford junior farm." </p>
<p>but in all honesty, i like the campuses of ucla and cal over stanford. if i had to pick a UC, i would say maybe riverside resembles stanford more than the rest.</p>