<p>I'm looking to apply to UCLA and UCSD, and with UCSD it is really useful to know about the 6 college system. Is there any information related to UCLA that you wish you had before you applied?</p>
<p>i guess maybe make sure that you know all about the major you're applying to before you do it, like i wasnt sure of the differences between cs & cse, and i picked cse. either way i'm still happy with cse but i was concerned at first</p>
<p>Just being aware of the diff req. for the diff. college within UCLA (CL&S, HSSEAS, ...) </p>
<p>otherwise, no, nothing relaly</p>
<p>Thanks! ok so you apply seperately to the different colleges w/in UCLA</p>
<p>No. Well... which college are you applying to?</p>
<p>In all cases, you complete the UC App...</p>
<p>ok so you complete one application for all UC schools but atsome point for UCSD you give a ranking of the 6 colleges they have and you are placed in one... for UCLA you mentioned CL&S as a college within the college, right? I think i'm a bit confused</p>
<p>No. UCLA is a university. It has colleges within it. It had graduate and professional schools too. Overall, it is a university. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ucla.edu/academics.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.ucla.edu/academics.html</a></p>
<p>You're either nursing, CL&S (where most majors go), Arts/Architecture, or Theatre/Film/TV.</p>
<p>We don't have the six-college thing at UCLA...</p>
<p>right it's a university but what's the deal with seperate colleges within it... like when you apply for undergraduate admission do you need to specify which college you want w/in UCLA or is that defined by your choice of major?</p>
<p>I wish I had spent more time on the campus. I walked through it briefly once a few years ago and I took everyone else's opinion of it for my own. Then after I was accepted i spent a weekend here and was miserable, everyone told me it was because I just flew in from Thailand and my grandfather (we were very close) just died. So I sent in my SIR. Now I'm here at orientation and I still feel miserable every step I take on this campus.</p>
<p>So UCLA is amazing, but there's something about being physically present on this campus that just makes me want to cry.</p>
<p>UCSD is the only one that has the 6 colleges like that. For all UC's (as well as UCSD), there is a place where you choose the major(s) you want to apply for at that UC. The major may be in a certain college at the university. For example, when I applied to UCLA, I applied for Electrical Engineering, and this was in the engineering college. If you apply for most other things, you will be applying to the college of letters and sciences (CL&S). SO basically, you just choose the major you want to apply for, and this major may mean you are applying to some certain college there. It's different from the 6 college thing at UCSD. Like even UCSD has an engineering college, which you would apply for if you were an engineering major (automatically by choosing that major).</p>
<p>Kirby - Wow (in a sad way). I feel the exact opposite, but I don't really see how spending more time on campus would make you feel any better if being here physically makes you want to cry and you feel miserable every step. </p>
<p>Btw, what part of Thailand does your family reside? (assuming you are from Thailand)</p>
<p>thank you for clearing that up zero, I thought that maybe all UC's had the seperate college's, so the whole CL&S thing confused me... now it makes more sense...did you choose UCLA in the end?</p>
<p>Hey Kirby, outside of your circumstances, life at UCLA isn't best represented by your experiences from Orientation or just visiting. I hope things get better for you.</p>
<p>13579,</p>
<p>At UCLA and UCSD, your major will dictate the particular college/school you'll go to. For example, if you're an engineering major you'd go to HSSEAS (UCLA) or Jacobs school of engineering (UCSD). In both cases that particular school must accept you and the engineering schools have their own requirements for acceptance that may be more rigorous than the general school. Most majors however, will be in the College of Letter and Sciences (UCLA) or general school (UCSD). </p>
<p>At UCSD things are a bit more complicated in that one also selects (or gets assigned) one of 6 'colleges' within UCSD which define the GEs required and each have their own housing/dining (although one may use any of the dining halls even in other 'colleges'). However, any major may be taken through any of the 6 colleges and one actually attends classes all over campus including at other 'colleges'. The idea here is to have a particular college associated with particular GE philosphies and to attempt to provide a 'smaller' environment on what is otherwise a very large campus. I believe Oxford in England works in a similar way.</p>
<p>Kirby - I am sorry to hear that and I hope you feel happier, but I know how you feel. I have only spent a very short period of time in LA though, like 10 years ago when I was just a little kid, so I can't connect with the UCLA part. However, I did feel pretty depressed when I went to Las Vegas. I hope I never go there again!</p>
<p>so interesting how certain visions or surroundings can immediately trigger depression. hm. for me, it is dreary grey seasons at dusk. good old east coast.</p>
<p>How can you not get depressed in Vegas?! Hot weather... sin city... lights lights and lights... eating McDonald's and buffet food everyday... swarms of people looking to hit it big...</p>
<p>thank you very much for your clarification of the process dad... it's good to hear from someone who knows what's going on!</p>
<p>I love how you call him "Dad."</p>
<p>yea you know what i meant :)</p>