<p>so when you put a major down on the app, obviously certain majors are more competative than others.....what if you put down an easier major and get accepted but then say you want to change it to another major....one that is more competative and you probably would not have been addmited to the school had you listed that major in the first place. what would happen? does this happen?</p>
<p>don't worry - it happens all the time. If you have a great talent in music or whatever and you really don't want music to be the only thing you study at college you put it down as your major and change it after a semester, take a double major or make it a minor and so on. So many of my friends have done this. One of my old bosses even told me to do it (I don't think I really need to because of my major). Bottom line: it's so common I don't even think it can be called sneaky. It's resourcing if you ask me.</p>
<p>if you are a transfer it's tough maybe impossible but if you are a freshman no big deal</p>
<p>It depends, usually for transfer its harder especially if trying to as a junior but the websites state each's specific policy. Some have only a certain few majors that wont allow transfers to change into after going and others will etc.</p>
<p>The popular "impacted majors" are practically impossible to change to at UCs, don't know about other schools.</p>
<p>can you give me some examples of "impacted majors"?</p>
<p>thanks :-)</p>
<p>impacted majors, well it depends upon college like at UCI it is Computer Science, somewhere else it might be some engineering major or business majors...it depends from college to college.</p>
<p>If you know the major requires a high GPA, it's impacted, however, some examples...engineering at all UCs, Computer sci where it's different, business, bio and bioengineering. Each UC identifies it's impacted majors, check web sites.</p>