First-year psychobiology student Sophie Tran told her parents not to visit campus for Bruin Family Weekend this year.

Instead, on Oct. 31, Tran will be celebrating Halloween with her friends.

“The best time for parents’ weekend (Bruin Family Weekend) is like the weekend after Halloween,” she said. “Then you could focus all your time, spending time with your parents.”

Bruin Family Weekend, a two-day annual event where the university invites parents and families to visit UCLA, landed on Oct. 30 and 31 this year. Students whose parents are attending the event must balance Halloween festivities and midterm exams with spending time with their families.

In previous years, Bruin Family Weekend was scheduled on the second weekend of November.

“Planning Bruin Family Weekend involves balancing the academic calendar, home football game and the availability of campus spaces and activities,” said a spokesperson for UCLA External Affairs. “We try to schedule it far enough into the fall quarter that students have settled in, but before families begin making plans for Thanksgiving.”

The spokesperson said the office looks forward to welcoming families to campus for the weekend on Oct. 30.

Tran, who has a midterm on Nov. 3, said she initially didn’t realize the family events on campus could impact her weekend plans. Parents attending the weekend can listen in on mock lectures from UCLA faculty, attend information sessions about student life and cheer on the Bruins at the home football game against Nevada.

She added that she would be stressed about balancing studying, seeing her parents and enjoying Halloween if her parents decided to come.

“If your parents want to go to the football game and then you want to go out on Halloween after, then you have no time to study,” Tran said.

Coi Villanueva, a first-year chemistry student from Los Angeles, said her parents won’t attend Bruin Family Weekend this year because she sees them often. She added that she anticipates that fewer students will go out to Halloween parties because the UCLA event falls on the same dates.

“I talk to all of my friends, and I feel privileged because I live near here, and I get to see my parents often,” Villanueva said. “But I can’t imagine being in their shoes where they just really want to see their parents.”

Sebastian Hrisanthopoulos, a third-year economics student, said his parents decided not to attend Bruin Family Weekend, hoping to visit on a less crowded weekend without Halloween parties.

“It’s going to be a tough time for students to navigate having to either choose between their parents or their friends on such a popular holiday,” Hrisanthopoulos said.

Contributing reports by Abegail Hyde, Daily Bruin Contributor