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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In term of ability to get the classes you want, size of classes, being taught by professors versus TAs, and social life,, is it frat heavy? do kids live in dorms after freshman year... any and all insight would be appreciated. I went to a small college where we built community quickly and naturally in the dorms and I never once had a TA, so the possibility of sending my DD to a university with 33K undergrad is a strange new world to me. [/quote]

Yes, it's hard to get the some of classes you need. There is an underground market for selling class seats. It's confusing how it happens, but it does. I always get called a liar when I state this so... https://stack.dailybruin.com/2024/02/04/course-selling/

Entry classes are large. My DC's classes were taught by professors but the study groups/labs were run by TAs. DC found professors to be pretty standoffish/unavailable.

Housing is guaranteed all 4 years if you don't have a separation in service. Most freshman are placed in triples, but the vast majority of the dorms which had been doubles are are also moving to triples next year. They are packed in like sardines. If kids are in the greek system they tend to move into the house sophomore year and then either stay in the house or move to an apartment once they are upperclassmen, but living in LA is expensive. My DC was unlucky and did not end up on a very social floor even though the dorm was all freshman.

The frats host the parties and they are often paired with sororities so it depends what kind of a social life your DD is looking for. I think most parties work off a guest list at this point. Pledging takes a lot of time and energy (and money) so it's hard to juggle other things, but sorority rush is a much more thorough and organized process for the rushees than the frat rush program so that's a plus. Outside of that my recommendation would be to go to the club fair and sign up for everything that remotely interests them and whittle from there.

The campus is gorgeous, the weather is usually great (minus fires and random storms), and LA can be an exciting place, but my DC has felt like you need a lot of hustle to get what you need there and if they had to do it again I think they might have chosen differently. [/quote]

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