there are 4 ppl at my school that i know of who got into ucla and they all applied to the college of letters and sciences, while everyone else including myself who applied engineering got rejected.
damnit, and one of the ppl i know for a fact did pretty bad on her sat’s and was working on her essays the night before deadline and who had a GPA worse than mine (not even ELC) and she got accepted.
would it have been easy for me to switch my major into engineering if i had gotten admitted in letters and science?
btw, i am not bitter…haha, just second guessing myself
<p>and it blows my mine, cuz our valedictorian who is REALLY smart and hardworking and is a leader got rejected, while her stats and passion for learning outweigh the actual acceptees......but she did apply as an ME so that might be why but she is the superioir student by far</p>
<p>5 people from my school have been admitted to UCLA.</p>
<p>1) Valedictorian - Bio major (not sure on test scores, but GPA was ~4.5 and plenty of ECs/volunteer work, Asian male)
2) Salutatorian - Aerospace Engineering major (GPA 4.47, 1430 SAT, 760/760/750 SAT IIs, medium number of ECs, White male)
3) Salutatorian - (GPA 4.4, 1360 SAT, 610/760/490 SAT IIs - (quite a shocker), tons of ECs, Engineering major, Asian male)
4) Engineering major (GPA 4.3, 1420 SAT, 660/760/750 SAT IIs, tons of ECs, Asian male)
5) Chem. major (not sure on stats, but SAT was 1360, Asian Indian male)</p>
<p>Bottom line: engineering seems to the one of the most (if not the most) selective</p>
<p>we have 19 and counting so far who were admitted...and i go to a pretty bad school...well, 19 from the magnet :-</p>
<p>I KNEW IT!</p>
<p>I KNEW IT!I KNEW IT!I KNEW IT!I KNEW IT!</p>
<p>Engineering is RIGGED. Rigged hard. This is why you apply in women's studies.</p>
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<p>stupid engineering................. i shouldve chosen the most random major possible, gah</p>
<p>yea i just saw someone say they got accepted for chinese major.....i mean, wat can you do with that?! but hey they can say they were a ucla alum.....haha</p>
<p>I can't speak for UCLA, but I know my university tries to keep a handle on "back door admits." That is, people who apply to one school with little intention of staying there; they're hoping to officially transfer to another unit ASAP. Obviously there is some movement each year as students discover their major is not the good fit they'd hoped, but that's different from people entering a school with no intention of being a student there.</p>
<p>So while they cannot always tell, (and UCLA may not care one way or the other), it's not always a sound strategy.</p>
<p>slicmlic2001
, what school?</p>
<p>At Berkeley, it's almost impossible to transfer from Letters and Science to Engineering once you're in. I'd assume it's the same at UCLA</p>
<p>Eng. school is harder to get into than letters of sciences but not that much harder. they are pretty even</p>
<p>"would it have been easy for me to switch my major into engineering if i had gotten admitted in letters and science?". Actually it would have been virtually impossible. There are few slots, so the GPA required is astronomical.</p>
<p>well its not impossible but i heard its hard but that can just be a myth that counselors tell us</p>