University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

INTRODUCTION OF UCLA

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university located in district named Westwood of Los Angeles, California, United States. It was named the Southern Branch of the University of California in the year 1919, making it the 2nd oldest undergraduate campus of the 10 campus system after the initial University of California campus located in Berkeley (1873). It offers more than 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a vast range of disciplines. UCLA has an approximate enrollment of 30,000 undergraduate and about 12,000 graduate students, and almost 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016, including transfer applicants, the most applicants for any American university.

CAMPUS AT UCLA

The new UCLA campus in 1929 had four buildings: Royce Hall and Haines Hall to the north, and Powell Library and Kinsey Hall ( Humanities Building) to the south. The Janss Steps were the initial eighty-seven step entrance to the university that lead directly to the quad of these four buildings. On this day, the campus includes about 163 buildings across 419 acres (1.7 km²) in the western part of Los Angeles, north of the Westwood  district and  south of Sunset Boulevard. In terms of acreage, it is the second smallest of the ten UC campuses. And also the campus is close but not adjacent to the 405 San Diego Freeway.

TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING AT UCLA

The campus sustains about 24,000 parking spaces and conducts an award-winning sustainable transportation program. Elements of the continuing transportation program include van pools, a campus shuttle system called BruinBus, discounted carpool permits with sponsored transit passes. In it one of the pass programs includes BruinGo!,[48] which allows students and staffs to buy discounted one-way or quarterly passes to ride Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus or the Culver CityBus. This type of pass program grants the facility for current student to ride the Big Blue Bus for 50 cents (each way). Additionally, UCLA also has a grocery shuttle which transports students between the dorms and Westwood, only on weekends in order to facilitate students' shopping needs.

ADMISSION AT UCLA

UNDERGRADUATE

UCLA is rated "Most Selective" by U.S. News & World Report and has an admissions selectivity rating of 98 out of 99 from the Princeton Review. For Fall of 2016, it received 9,064 freshman applications, the most number of any four-year university in the United States, and reached its record-low admission rate of 17.3% for Fall of 2015.Admission rates vary according to the residency of applicants. For Fall of 2015, the admission rate for California state residents was about 16%, while the admission rate for out-of-state U.S. residents was approximately  23% and the admission rate for internationals was 14%.

GRADUATE

The School of Dentistry had an average overall GPA of 3.75, an average science GPA of 3.71 and a standard  Dental Admissions Test (DAT) score of 22 for the enrolled class of the year 2018. The Graduate School of Nursing now currently has an acceptance rate of 3.9%. For Fall of  2015, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science(HSSEAS) had a graduate approval rate of 27.6%. For Fall of 2014, the David Geffen School of Medicine enrolled 3.2% of its candidates, making it the ninth most selective U.S. medical school. The School of Law had a median undergraduate GPA of 3.74 and median Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score of 166 for the enrolled class of the year 2018. The Anderson School of Management had a middle-80% GPA range of 3.2 - 3.8 and an average Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score of 714 for the enrolled MBA class of 2017.

ATHLETICS

The school's sports teams are called the Bruins, with colors True Blue and gold. The Bruins participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pac "12" Conference. Two notable sports facilities serve as home venues for UCLA sports. The Bruin men's football team plays home games at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena; the team won a national title in the year 1954. The basketball and volleyball teams, and the women's gymnastics team compete at Pauley Pavilion on campus. The school also sponsors cross country, soccer, women's rowing, golf, tennis, water polo, track and field, and women's softball.

STUDENT LIFE

The campus is located near prominent entertainment venues such as the Getty Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),  Walt Disney Concert Hall. UCLA offers classical orchestras, intramural sports, and over eight hundred student organizations. UCLA is also home to more than seventy fraternities and sororities, which represent 13% of the undergraduate population. Phrateres, a non-exclusive social-service club for women was founded here in the year 1924 by the Dean of Women, Helen Matthewson Laughlin. Students and staff participate in dinghy sailing, surfing, rowing, and kayaking at the UCLA Marina Aquatic Center in Marina del Rey.