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Saturday, April 17, 2021

Who gets what?


From the Bruin: ...Some transfer students from the class of 2022 are asking to receive priority housing after they found out UCLA was not prioritizing returning transfers for on-campus housing. UCLA announced in a campuswide email that it plans to offer some in-person housing in the fall. UCLA said it plans to offer priority housing to incoming freshmen, returning sophomores and incoming first-year transfer students. However, transfers from the class of 2022 were not offered priority housing.

Transfer students submitted a petition, which has gathered more than 1,200 signatures, to UCLA on Monday asking administrators to include current first-year transfer students. Students also attended a town hall meeting... with a group of housing administrators, where some expressed their frustration and implored administrators to offer housing priority to returning transfer students...

Zuleika Bravo, a fourth-year political science transfer student and the Undergraduate Students Association Council transfer student representative who sat on a priority housing committee, which gave UCLA recommendations on which groups of students to prioritize, said she advocated for UCLA Housing to prioritize returning transfer students because many of them have not set foot on campus...

Sarah Dundish, director of housing and planning, said at the town hall the school cannot accommodate all transfer students because UCLA will not be offering triple-occupancy housing in the fall...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2021/04/15/class-of-2022-transfer-students-call-on-ucla-to-guarantee-housing-for-fall

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