UCLA (2024-2025)

[severe copper]

Realistically you won’t get it in the spring

The first orientation is soon iirc

[fading tartan]

I’m just traumatized from my freshman year counselor

She was like oh u don’t need to take APs!

[clever trellis]

Yeah

But like beyond fall

I need to take 1 Spanish course, 1 education studies course, and 1.5 poli sci courses every quarter and then boom done

The actual courses themselves idrc

[severe copper]

Rheyre all part of the same series so it’s kind of expected you take them next

[clever trellis]

Ohh

[severe copper]

Noooo four class quarters

[clever trellis]

Yeah that’s not relevant to me

[severe copper]

Actually

It’s chiller as a humanities major

[clever trellis]

Four classes all humanities is a piece of cake

[severe copper]

Yeah

Makes sense

[clever trellis]

I took four classes at NU my first quarter

Some people even took 5 their first quarter

[grave stratus]

Ruby did you take dual enrollment during hs

[severe copper]

There’s this famous freshman

He did 6 first quarter and 7 second

[fading tartan]

WTF?

[severe copper]

No not an option at my school

[clever trellis]

I know one guy at NU who was a year ahead of me and regularly did 7 courses per quarter

[fading tartan]

And I thought I was crazy trying to take 4

😭😭

[grave stratus]

What the hell 😭😭😭

[severe copper]

WY on yikyak

And he’s an env sci major

So good amount of stem classes

[clever trellis]

It’s interesting that 3 courses is normal at UCLA

[severe copper]

It’s cause we have lives outside classes

[clever trellis]

3 courses is typically an underload at northwestern

[severe copper]

Yeah heard that’s the case at ucsd

[severe copper]

He’s an icon

[clever trellis]

lol

[fading tartan]

Would u say 4 classes is the norm at nu?

[severe copper]

Idk about NU students but ucsd students …

[fading tartan]

Maybe I should ask Stanford ppl

[clever trellis]

4.5

[severe copper]

All they do is study

[clever trellis]

About half do 4, half do 5

[severe copper]

They hardly do ecs

[clever trellis]

A few crazies do 6+

[fading tartan]

😀

[severe copper]

Also if you’re premed you want to take 3 classes anyways

Spend more time doing other stuff cause the majors and minors you do don’t matter

[clever trellis]

Ima be freelancing 20+ hours a week, doing daily bruin, and class

[clever trellis]

Ah yeah makes sense

[grave stratus]

Unrelated but when do AP creds and transfer credits appear on my degree audit usually

Like late aug?

[clever trellis]

I might also have an internship in which case I’ll turn down my regular freelance gig and do occasional freelance instead

[fading tartan]

I just really don’t want to take the Mcat while I have classes

[severe copper]

Yeah last quarter I timed and I spent 40-50 hrs a week doing other stuff

[clever trellis]

So real

[severe copper]

I had a friend work 2 full time internships

[severe copper]

By orientation

[clever trellis]

My spring sem 2024 was the busiest ever for me

[severe copper]

Then don’t

[grave stratus]

summer

[fading tartan]

Wouldn’t that mean I have to take my prereqs a lot faster then

[severe copper]

Are you trying to do no gap year

[fading tartan]

I feel like taking all of them before junior year is kinda unrealistic

[clever trellis]

I had a 15 hr a week internship, a 5 hour a week freelance gig, editor in chief of my college newspaper (30 hours a week) and 7 classes in spring 2024. I almost passed out I’m ngl

[fading tartan]

Yes but I’ll probably end up taking one

[severe copper]

Nah I’m finishing all of mine + 4 geneds before junior year

[fading tartan]

Did u do summer classes

[severe copper]

If you want not to take a gap year then you have to finish by end of sophomore year

[fading tartan]

Bc idk how to finish them while only doing 3 classes per quarter

[clever trellis]

I will neverrr do summer classes

[severe copper]

I’m doing 2 this summer but I didn’t have to

[fading tartan]

Real

[clever trellis]

Summer is for working full time imo it’s so much more fun than school

[severe copper]

I just chose to because it felt like a waste of time to take these classes during the school yr

[clever trellis]

Yeah that makes sense

To each their own too

[severe copper]

Also wasn’t allowed to work so 🥲

[fading tartan]

I’ll prob ask my advisor when I do orientation

[severe copper]

Everyone has their own situations

[clever trellis]

Yeah

[severe copper]

They’ll be a student

FYI

[fading tartan]

😀

[severe copper]

May not be your major

[clever trellis]

Some journalists drop out of college after soph/junior year if they get a full time job offer

[severe copper]

You can fit everything without taking summer classes if you want

[clever trellis]

I’ve been tempted sometimes

[severe copper]

But if you’re planning on doing HBS it’s a bit harder

Considerably harder

[clever trellis]

But the stability of a degree is just too hard to turn down

[severe copper]

Unless you already have geneds done

[fading tartan]

Bc of the humanities classes right

[severe copper]

Yeah there’s 4 or 5 extra classes you have to take in order to be able to apply to the major

So most people who do HBS forgo physics till junior year

[fading tartan]

X_x

[severe copper]

It’s doable

[clever trellis]

Election week 2024 was the busiest week of my life actually, not spring semester 2024

[fading tartan]

Isn’t physics required to apply as an hbs major

[severe copper]

You would just have to do a lot of 4 class quarters

[severe copper]

No

[clever trellis]

I’m taking 0 stem courses at ucla

[severe copper]

IMO not worth it as a premed

[fading tartan]

Yea that’s what I realized

[clever trellis]

It’s so freeing

[severe copper]

I was originally planning on double majoring

I had some med student advisor at Geffen through CAC

And she was like yeah you can do it but it’s really not worth it because that time could be spent doing something else that adds significantly to your application vs an extra major that med schools aren’t going to do anything about

[grave stratus]

prepared to take that gap year 🙏

[clever trellis]

Here’s my course planner for fall 2025, with the caveat that I prob won’t get the poli sci upper div and I’ll just take whatever other poli sci upper div I can get

[severe copper]

Yeah I’m finishing everything off but I’m gapping

[clever trellis]

Why are you guys all premed

[severe copper]

Cause it’s ucla

Either premed or business Econ

[clever trellis]

Or if you’re me poli sci but secretly journalism

[grave stratus]

ookla got like the most premeds in the country

[clever trellis]

I’m in a poli sci transfer gc on instagram

And they’re ALL pre law

[severe copper]

Polisci is much smaller percentage wise

[severe copper]

Yeah

I think 30% of the college is like life sci iirc

[clever trellis]

😭

I’d rather be around pre meds than pre law poli sci tho

So I’ll take it

[grave stratus]

how many people are actually committed to premed 😭

do like a solid chunk quit the premed track or smt

cause i'm actually second guessing myself

[severe copper]

Nah you’ll be around pre law people mostly

Other than daily Bruin

[severe copper]

Yeah

Cause they realize it’s not the track they want

[clever trellis]

I feel like daily bruin is tons of pre law

[severe copper]

Which is valid

[severe copper]

I’m sure

I was thinking of joining

But like

[clever trellis]

Daily bruin has so few actual journalism people

[severe copper]

I feel like I’m not daily Bruin material

[clever trellis]

I mean whattt who said that

[severe copper]

😭

The issue with like

Joining the daily Bruin or lit mag

Is how cracked people r

[clever trellis]

They aren’t tho

DB has three editors who I consider partially or fully cracked

[severe copper]

I feel like everyone ik on the daily Bruin is cracked

[clever trellis]

Okay well maybe cracked at ecs in general but I mean cracked at DB stuff

[severe copper]

Ohh

Yeah that’s fair

[weak falcon]

Is doing 3 classes in a quarter the best number for a freshman?

[severe copper]

There’s no best number but for adjustment purposes id do 3

Better things be too easy than too hard

[timid dagger]

anyone wanna ucla help a girlie out

🥀

https://www.reddit.com/r/ucla/comments/1lssb5c/compiling_a_list_of_freecheap_stuff_at_ucla_need/

[timid dagger]

damn

[fierce bear]

reddit dms?

cooked

[fading tartan]

@severe copper could u explain when lab classes are normally taken

[severe copper]

Wdym when

[fading tartan]

like ls23L, chem14bl, and the orgo chem lab

[fading tartan]

um like

do u take it with the science class or is it usually taken after

[severe copper]

You can do either

Realistically you won’t get anything other than 7L concurrently with the clas

So you’ll probably take BL and CL after ochem

[clever trellis]

Hiii bruins

[severe copper]

Depending on when you start chem

[clever trellis]

How’s it going

[fading tartan]

ok tysm

should i treat lab as a free class or a serious time commitment

bc i thought it was a supp class that paired with a science class

or is it just a stand alone class

[clever trellis]

I am a bruin in stem (I’m going through a 1.6k row spreadsheet)

[fading tartan]

is it normal to take BL and CL during junior or senior year then?

[clever trellis]

Investigative journalism is like 1/3 emails and cold calling, 1/3 records and spreadsheets, and 1/3 actual journalisming

[severe copper]

Serious time commitment

It’s busy work

But a lot of busy work

It’s not difficult just straight work

[severe copper]

Stand alone

[severe copper]

Yup

[severe copper]

I just saw your Reddit post ☠️

Getting 7L and 7c are together is the only realistic thing and that will only happen if you first past

And sooooo many people did not get 7L the last two quarters so it will be competitive winter and spring

And @fading tartan you don’t have to retake your placement test for LS30, I got a 5 on ab and 4 on bc and still was able to take ls 30a and b

[fading tartan]

ok phew bc i dont wanna spend 20 more $

[fading tartan]

ugh enrollment is gonnabe such a nightmare

[fading tartan]

how different is ls30a from calc ab

js curious

[severe copper]

You don’t

[severe copper]

I don’t think I even took the placement test

[severe copper]

This is like the most stressful one

All the other ones are better

[severe copper]

Very very different

Not at all the same

They have a bit of overlap concept wise

Like in terms of derivatives and tangent lines

That’s all though

Ls is like life sciences math lots of epidemiology and population stuff

[fading tartan]

so its mostly exponential and log stuff ?

[fading tartan]

would u say its easier than calc ab or calc 1 ?

[severe copper]

Nah

It’s like

It’s hard to explain

30a is very conceptual

30b is a mix of linear algebra random concepts and Multivar

[severe copper]

Significantly

I struggled a lot the first time I took ab

30a is like just learning random bs concepts

I thought it was bs the whole time I took it but lowkey I see the stuff they taught me everywhere

31b will 100% be harder than 30a or b

[fading tartan]

mm i see'

[fading tartan]

yea i dont see the need to take real calc when im a premed

[severe copper]

Yeah if you don’t want to struggle do 30

If you like Calc do 31

[fading tartan]

ok tysm

[gusty granite]

i still ptsd when i saw rejection

[gusty granite]

no need but there is a need if pursuing MD/PHD pathway

strange enough

idk what i wanna do yet tho

[fading tartan]

Oh will phd programs not consider ls30 as calc

[weak falcon]

Do you know anyone who is doing/did a cluster?

[severe copper]

I did a cluster

[weak falcon]

Do you reccomend it?

[severe copper]

Yeah

Depends on which one

But overall yes

[weak falcon]

So the cluster class is just the same class you take for each quarter in the year right?

[severe copper]

Yes

You can drop any time

It’s nice cause you can second pass it winter and spring without worry

[weak falcon]

Second pass?

[severe copper]

For every enrollment forward, you have two timeslots for enrollment. During first pass, you can only enroll in 10 units and during second, you can do up to your cap (usually 19 in l&s until you take enough to up it)

[weak falcon]

Ah

Since it's guaranteed I can use the earlier slot for more potentially competitive enrollments

[severe copper]

Yup

[weak falcon]

Which cluster did you do?

[timid dagger]

note that if you have priority you get that over first pass iirc

[severe copper]

no

well yes

but priority is 19 uns the week before first pass

[timid dagger]

is it not 10 as well?

ignore the music top right

ignore the music top right

i guess it uses pass system

did not realise that

[severe copper]

no regents is 10

[timid dagger]

ic

[grave stratus]

do they usually open more classes 😭

or more seats

[weak falcon]

Which cluster did you end up doing?

[severe copper]

Yeah they prob will wait until your orientation

[severe copper]

Biotech and society

I did that one because I was originally pre HBS

[timid dagger]

chat does anyone have any insights on reslife hiring timeline

😁

or work-study hiring timeline in general (specifically working library)

[storm slate]

I have a question about work study too. When can we start applying?

[flint trellis]

Can I reapply for financial aid? Like for next year or this year

[timid dagger]

yeah you refile fafsa every year

[rigid knot]

yea i think they've just forgotten about wl applicants atp

[trim talon]

the wl is cooked man

I have given up all hopes at this point

We are almost in August lol

[fading tartan]

they won’t let us use meal swipes at third party restaurants anymore

Pmo

Is this bc of funding cuts

I NEED MY LARGE STRAWBERRY FRAPPES AND GRILLED CHEESE BURRITOOS DONT PMO

[weak falcon]

Why does this happen before my time here even starts

It’s over

[severe copper]

I started crying

No more bomb shelter

My life is over

I’m actually starving every day

All my classes are at bomb shelter

[severe copper]

Kerckoff 🥲🥲🥲

[humble gale]

ugh we need to start a petition to revert then

[fading tartan]

That’s what I’m saying

[fading tartan]

It’s over

For us

USC is now the better La school

[keen hearth]

what is the bomb shelter 😭

[severe copper]

We have a building that was built to be a bomb shelter during the Cold War

But now it’s for food

[severe copper]

Noooo

It’s ok eat healthier

[keen hearth]

that’s so cool

[fierce bear]

vro we cant use meal swipes on anything but like dining halls

[fading tartan]

oh