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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she was at private, she had small classes, teachers she bonded with, discussion based classes where her opinion mattered, and was able to get in all the classes she chose.

She will not have that experience at all at UCLA. Classes of 250+ mainly taught by graduate students, professors that are really there are only to do research and don’t care about undergrads, and no one really cares what you think. Classes are rambled info and you 100% need to take initiative in anything as you are left on your own. And others are right about course selection. [/quote]

[/quote]This was my experience having TAd there as a grad student.  The professors don't care one lick about the undergrads.  At one point I was told to TA a lab class without the required chemicals.  The stockroom and professor were fighting about something, so the students just didn't get to do the labs that quarter.  The stockroom refused to provide supplies.  I encouraged students to drop, but most needed the class because they were already 5th years and they'd been waiting to take this lab class since they were sophomores.   They would have had to stay for a 6th year.  They ended up writing hypothetical lab reports about the experiments they would have done if they'd had chemicals for C's.

Other quarters the students at the end of the week also didn't get chemicals because they we usually ran out by Thursday morning.  Professors didn't care.

Professors also taught material out of order if they didn't like which class they'd been assigned to teach (e.g., instead of teaching 14CL, they'd teach 14BL material despite it actually being a 14CL class).

Oh, and MANY calc, chem and engineering classes were graded by scantron.  Lots of cheating in the big classes.  Tough curves, too.

I also found that the campus had a very commuter feel since many students were from LA.  It was also very racially and ethnically segregated.[/quote]

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