The University of California - Los Angeles
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Educational Quality | B- | Faculty Accessibility | C- |
Useful Schoolwork | B- | Excess Competition | B |
Academic Success | B+ | Creativity/ Innovation | F |
Individual Value | F | University Resource Use | A- |
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty | A- | Friendliness | B- |
Campus Maintenance | A | Social Life | C |
Surrounding City | A | Extra Curriculars | C- |
Safety | A+ | ||
Describes the student body as: Arrogant, Snooty, ClosemindedDescribes the faculty as: Arrogant, Unhelpful, Self Absorbed |
Lowest Rating Creativity/ Innovation | F |
Highest Rating Safety | A+ |
Stanford isn't a small school! |
I don't think you really realize what you have man. Going to UCLA for next to nothing. The surrounding city is amazing. You should be grateful. |
This review is obnoxiously biased |
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There is no doubt that the professors here are the best of the best in their feild, but that does not translate to great teachers or great academic experiences when they treat teaching like one of the things they have to do just so that they can do the research or do what they love on the side. Don't even get me started on TAs who frankly are as dry or more unhappy than the professors themselves.Overall, UCLA is not a learning/academic experience. UCLA is more of a place to get a degree as a qualifier, even in the humanities. If I could have afforded to attend a place where: my teachers would have know my name, or where discussions wouldn't simply be attendance markers or review sessions for those who didn't attend lectures, or where the student actually cared about what they're studying and learning(and not their gpa), or where I would feel forced to go to class because the school doesn't podcast or videocast lectures the way they do here(which makes it really easy to not attend class at all) I would. This might be a personal preference, but I think small schools are the way to go(if you can afford them, can get in, and have them as an option, ie Claremont McKenna, Pomona College, Stanford, Cal Tech, etc). UCLA is only great for those looking to use it as a means for medical school/professional schools as you can definitely build up your resume with the resources/opportunities and connections the school has for those who seek them. It is not for those people, like me, who really are interested in getting an education for the sake of becoming educated and being surrounded with peers who actually know how to think, are interested in academics, and are overall diverse and interesting.In regards to the student body, its statistically diverse(if you consider Asians to be a type of diversity). However statistical diversity doesn't matter when every group, whether black white asian hispanic etc, self segregates or are rarely seen without people who look like them. As a "real" cultural minority myself(in UCLA), I find it difficult to relate to my minority group. They tend to be stereotypical and act/think stereotypically. You could have picked out anyone off of any inner city, and have them apply under any non-impacted major and having the school's minimum requirements, and they would have made it in. That or they would have been recruited athletes, which tends to be the case for most of the African Americans at this campus(which is extremely sad and in which I wish wasn't the case).Positives for me: