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<li>is it a smart idea?/does it work?</li>
<li>how hard is it to switch to the major I want, say, biology, pharmacology, or premed?</li>
<li>which majors are the most obscure if it is?</li>
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<p>I know a girl at my school applied to the UCs as an anthropology major with worse grades, ECs, and SATs than me and got into UCLA when I didn’t (biology major). Some schools don’t let you change your major for a while though, so you may end up having to take those GEs on top of reqs for med schools which would suck.</p>
<p>UCSB does not admit by major except for the majors listed here:</p>
<p>[UCSB</a> Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucsb.edu/SelectionProcess.asp?section=selectionprocess&subsection=reviewprocess#Colleges]UCSB”>http://www.admissions.ucsb.edu/SelectionProcess.asp?section=selectionprocess&subsection=reviewprocess#Colleges)</p>
<p>Most UCs are the same, including UCLA (at least for majors in the college of L&S). So there are no “easy” majors, only harder ones.</p>
<p>To be honest engineering and biology are impacted majors… as much as UC’s don’t admit it it’s harder to get into those programs. </p>
<p>But just have in mind if you put down psychology as your intended major thinking you have a better shot and you happen to get in… changing majors will be frowned upon and difficult to accomplish. But this is like you put down psychology but changing to engineering. Changing majors in same department is fairly simple bio to chem or me to ee, but changing from English major to engineering… you probably won’t be able to. </p>
<p>I think it’s not the BEST idea because I mean do you really want to get into a school by lying ? I mean that says a lot from the beginning how you would take an unfair advantage for your own good. </p>
<p>Like what RC251 said, if you are qualified to get into the school you’ll get in because there isn’t a major thats easier but there are HARDER ones and more competitive ones.</p>
<p>College of Engineering and College of Creative Studies have more rigorous standards. College of Letters & Science does NOT admit by major. That’s why they have pre-major requirements for your lower division years to weed out some people in order to keep certain programs smaller and better, such as communication and biology.</p>