<p>can someone provide information on how competitive this major is?</p>
<p>Also, can someone provide information on how competitive the biology major is, in terms of admissions to UCSD under that major. I can't find any data statistics about the SAT scores/GPAs of students admitted under these majors.</p>
<p>It's all the same besides Bioengineering</p>
<p>^ and I'm assuming this is more difficult?</p>
<p>bio is impacted next year, gl</p>
<p>what does impacted mean? I'll probably apply to biophysics or some engineering anyways.</p>
<p>The Division of Biological Sciences will be impacted meaning that they will limit the number of students that apply for bio majors since its the popular one on this campus from its prestige. </p>
<p>This basically means it will be more competitive getting in with a major within the division.</p>
<p>Yep.</p>
<p>To put it another way, schools full of bio majors, we don't need or want any more. </p>
<p><---- Bio major and proud of it!</p>
<p>even tho bio and other majors are impacted, it doesnt hurt your chances of getting into ucsd if you dont make the cut for the major</p>
<p>so if you apply bio, or bioE, or whatever else is impacted, but your statistics are good enough to get you into ucsd, you will be admitted</p>
<p>a few weeks later after being admitted your app goes through another round of reviewing to see if you are admitted into the impacted major, if you are, youre a bio kid, if not, you are placed into your second major of choice, or a general major, or w/e..which can be changed pretty easily after you come to ucsd and find out what you really want to do</p>
<p>some colleges dont work that way, like whatever major you apply to at berk, if you dont get in competing against other people applying for that major, then you arent accepted to the school at all, even though you may be more qualified then students applying under a different type of major</p>
<p>alot of state schools are like that too</p>
<p><---- Human Bio Major and also proud of it... Although I am being bombarded with loads of work... I mean look at me studying hours upon hours of chem on a friday night... It's like you basically arent allowed to party until midterms are over. Hell, the work will pay off tho :)</p>
<p>Ha, studying on my end too (O-chem midterm this coming Monday). At least there's a decent view from the very top of Geisel.</p>
<p>Feel the same way about the work, I'm gonna make it tough for med schools to deny me admittance...</p>
<p>I thought I should mention that the biophysics major is offered by the physics department (not the bio department), is not impacted and consists primarily of physics classes and is thus more difficult than the bio majors (or, I would expect it to be anyway). Since that was the major originally brought up in the op, I figured I should bring it up since everybody seems to think that biophysics is a bio major when it really isn't...</p>
<p>I am a biophysics major! I would only recommend it if you really enjoy physics. If you're primarily interested in biology, then go w/ one of the bio majors...</p>