<p>I have heard that it is possibole to change your major at freshman orientation over the summer. Not sure what this means exactly, --eg. can you automatically change and be accepted to any major before statring in the fall (this seems unlikely). If not, what latitude to change majors do you actually have? Thanks</p>
<p>Yes, you can change your major rather effortlessly at orientation in most cases. It should be within the same college (e.g. College of Letters of Science), and not be one of those majors you have to apply to get into. If it’s an easy thing like going from math to biology, just tell your orientation counselor/new student advisor right away and you’ll probably get a new counselor/advisor for orientation and be switched right away. I never changed my major, but people did it all the time during orientation.</p>
<p>How about from aerospace to bioengineering?</p>
<p>What happens if you do want to change colleges? (e.g. from L&S to Engineering)</p>
<p>You can’t go from L&S to HSSEAS at orientation (you might be able to go from HSSEAS to L&S though). There’s requirements for switching into engineering: [Change</a> of Major ? UCLA Engineering - Office of Academic and Student Affairs](<a href=“http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/undergraduates/change-of-majord]Change”>http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/undergraduates/change-of-majord)</p>
<p>I’m also curious about whether we can switch from one engineering major to another engineering major during orientation though.</p>
<p>^^^We asked this at eng open house - switching within engineering can be done after a quarter, not at orientation.</p>
<p>So if you want to switch from art and architecture to college of L&S, is it best to wait atleast a semester also ? Thanks</p>
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UCLA is actually on the quarter system, not semester.</p>
<p>It is usually pretty easy to switch into L&S. There is no urgency on doing this. You will be able to sign up for any course you want in L&S at orientation since there aren’t going to be any courses you’d want in L&S as a frosh that are restricted to majors. </p>
<p>This isn’t true for courses in Engineering, Arts, etc, since even frosh take courses in those colleges restricted to majors.</p>