Admission based on majors?

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>I've read and heard conflicting reports about whether or not your proposed major has an impact on a school's decision to accept you. I was wondering if anybody else heard about this, and if so, what do you know?</p>

<p>To be specific, I'm applying for transfer to UCLA, Berkeley, and UCSD (yes, the typical 3 dream schools of a community college kid, I know) I heard that a Philosophy Major would get accepted over a Psych Major because Psych is so much more common as a major, and the psych programs may already be full and more competitive. (this scenario assumes, of course, that each student has an identical record, and their proposed major would be the tiebreaker)</p>

<p>So can anybody tell me if it's true?</p>

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<p>At UC Berkeley they admit by major in the college of engineering but not in the college of letters and sciences (I think? I’m sure about the college of engineering but not for the college of letters and sciences)</p>

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<p>Transfers come in as Juniors right? Check which majors are impacted at your target UC. They also have higher GPA requirements for transfers relative to UC GPA (internal).</p>

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<p>Yes, some majors are harder to get into. Psych (and several others social science majors) are impounded, meaning they have more applicants than they can accept.</p>

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<p>i understand that berkeley doesn’t admit by major (in the college of letters and sciences) but they admit by division? (e.g. social sciences, humanities…) so it is easier to get into a major, for example, in the humanities division (acceptance rate 40%) than into a major in the social science division? (acceptance rate 18%)</p>

<p>source <a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/12626_5.Info_TransAdm.pdf[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/12626_5.Info_TransAdm.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>there is no point in applying for a major in social science division with such a low acceptance rate.
Last year, a couple of my friends and I applied for economic major in UCB and we both got rejected. We all had a high GPA (over 3.9), good ECs and now we end up studying in UCLA.
Another guy with a 3.6 GPA applied for environmental econ and policy in college of L&S (47% acceptance rate) and he is admitted. As ucb doesn’t admit by major, this guy is working on major in econ. His proposed major is environmental econ and policy but he can simply declare to be an econ major once he has completed major pre-requisites and has a 3.3 GPA in UCB.
Is this fair?</p>