<p>My main question is: I was wondering how colleges consider alternate majors? Do they look at your primary major, and if they reject you for that major, they then check if they will accept you for the alternate major? I'm not really sure...</p>
<p>Some background info:</p>
<p>I am currently in my second year at UCSC.</p>
<p>For the optional personal statement where I can tell them anything, I told them that if I can't get into UCI with my first major (business economics), then please consider my alternate major (biology). I spent another sentence or two saying how I really need to be at home right now, and my major doesn't really matter because I plan on going to dental school.</p>
<p>I applied to ucsd, uci, ucla, and cal as business or bus/econ major, and i'm pretty sure I won't get into any of them except for maybe uci. All my alternate major was biology and I have a 3.45 gpa (after the application update) and a good amount of extracurriculars.</p>
<p>I've taken bio, chem, phys, calc, econ, writing and psych.</p>
<p>i know there's an alternate major... ucsd kind of gave me a vague understanding of it. of course it will affect my admission to ucsd. do they choose people getting admitted into their alternate majors based on whether or not they get rejected from their primary major.</p>
<p>Ugh! So does that mean that if you are applying to UCSD with a NON-impacted major, they won't consider your alternate if for whatever reason you don't get into your primary one?</p>