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How UCLA's clubs, teams and ensembles take new members, and what to do about it.

  1. How to join a club at UCLAMost UCLA clubs take anyone who shows up, but plenty want an application, a tryout, an audition or a week of rush. Here is how to tell which, and when each one happens.
  2. Applying to selective clubs at UCLAConsulting, finance, research and project clubs that pick their members run a predictable process in the first weeks of fall. How it works and how to prepare.
  3. Greek life at UCLA: six councils, six ways to joinUCLA's fraternities and sororities recruit through six councils, each on its own calendar, from formal recruitment before classes start to NPHC intake later in the year.
  4. Club sports at UCLA: how to get on a teamWhich of UCLA Recreation's club teams hold tryouts, which take anyone willing to come to practice, and how to reach a team before its season starts.
  5. Playing music at UCLA when it is not your majorMany School of Music ensembles take non-majors. Some are classes you enroll in for units, others audition each fall, and student-run groups fill the gaps.
  6. Pre-med and health clubs at UCLAFree clinics, hospital volunteering, shadowing and research programs work very differently from pre-dental and pre-pharmacy societies. What each asks of you.
  7. Clubs for graduate and professional students at UCLAGraduate students mostly find their groups through their school. The school clubs at Anderson, Dentistry, Medicine and Luskin, the registered graduate organizations, and the GSA.
  8. Tech and engineering clubs at UCLASome build teams take anyone who fills out the interest form, others hire for roles by application. How a first-year gets onto a project team.
  9. Student media and publications at UCLAThe Daily Bruin, the newsmagazines, UCLA Radio and the student journals each hire their own way, with staff applications, writing tests or open submissions.
  10. Service and volunteering clubs at UCLATutoring, food recovery, health outreach and advocacy groups ask for very different amounts of time. The joining steps and commitments to check first.
  11. Student government at UCLARunning for office is one way into USAC. Staff applications, committee appointments, the GSA and the residence councils are the others.
  12. Cultural and identity organizations at UCLAHeritage associations, identity spaces and student publications usually take members at a meeting or with a form. Culture nights, intern programs and dance teams sign people up separately.
  13. Faith and spiritual communities at UCLAFellowships, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Baha'i groups at UCLA mostly welcome people at a weekly meeting. Where and when they meet, and what to sign up for.
  14. Pre-law and law clubs at UCLAPre-law societies take members with a form, while journals, trial teams and pre-law fraternities run their own selection. The School of Law's student groups work differently again.
  15. Joining a club after the first weeks of fallMissing week 1 does not close every door. Clubs that take members all year, keep applications rolling, or recruit again in winter and spring.