<p>Anyone know if we can double major in Econ if we are admitted as some major in another department in the college of letters and science? I know that you must first be pre-Economics, which is ok with me. I have no prereqs done except maybe the math ones. Is this a longshot?</p>
<p>this is a very very long shot.</p>
<p>Well, I guess to be more specific, would it be more likely to happen if I chose to take a year to do econ pre-reqs and my major classes and just declare the double major after a year?</p>
<p>it will help if you arrived into ucla with all the econ pre-reqs completed.</p>
<p>taking econ pre-reqs while at ucla will not give you enough time to finish all the major work along with the work for your other major.</p>
<p>unless you want to take 19 units (maybe more) a quarter?</p>
<p>Is that estimate with a 3 year plan or a two year plan?</p>
<p>if you applied after you finished all the pre reqs you’d probably have too many units to declare the major. no matter what, switching into econ is extremely unlikely.</p>
<p>here is a quote from another thread:
“Econ will not approve you to double if you did not get into ECON to begin with unless you have very compelling reasons and had the grades + gpa to get in when you originally applied- you need the approval of the department chair. It is highly unlikely to happen.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/506700-changing-majors-ucla.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/506700-changing-majors-ucla.html</a></p>
<p>I’m just wondering, are people allowed to double in math/econ since its not impacted and under the math department or is that still not allowed?</p>
<p>that might be allowed but there are twice as many pre-reqs so if you are missing too many , they probably won’t let you since there are a ton of upper divs as well.</p>
<p>I’m only missing 1 pre-req :). But I’m just wondering not actually doing it. Just pointing out that there might be a backdoor into getting into economics after all.</p>
<p>math/econ is the closest to a backdoor to econ as it gets but the thing is that the math requirement is quite substantial.</p>
<p>Math/Econ is pretty crazy…</p>
<p>It’s easy to get into it, but it has almost as many econ classes required as an econ major (just short by a couple) + 7 upper div math classes.</p>
<p>Not to mention just the math pre reqs + programming + econ 11…</p>
<p>Just be warned that Math/Econ is with the Math department and not with the Econ department. And the math department is no joke.</p>
<p>The math minor requires the same lower-division math + 5 UD math classes. So basically econ/math is just the full econ program + math minor.</p>
<p>Here is my Proposed Plan for Someone to Change into an Econ major:</p>
<p>Take Cal 3 and Differentials at your ccc (thought those classes weren’t too bad maybe its just me). This can be done in 1 semester at a CCC instead of 4 quarters at UCLA. So basically its the computer class + econ 11 (same pre-req as all econ majors). Then when you have access to upper div econ classes. Take only the 7 UD econ classes like a regular econ major then apply for change in major. </p>
<p>Maybe that will work, maybe it won’t. You can tell em that you are not interested in studying math anymore. I doubt they can force you to finish your math (or maybe then can??). But still someone who has finished a lot of the UD econ classes is probably going to be a better candidate to change major than someone who hasn’t taken any.</p>
<p>So if you are really want to change in econ you can try that lol.</p>
<p>As stated by the UCLA Econ department, you may not change your major to economics once you’ve been admitted to a different major. Please contact <a href=“mailto:ug-counslor@econ.ucla.edu”>ug-counslor@econ.ucla.edu</a> for more info. They’ll tell you it can’t be done.</p>
<p>iTransfer, they still won’t let you declare econ.</p>
<p>You can’t double major in Econ if you weren’t accepted for Econ in the first place. I was trying to do that and the UCLA representative at my CC shot my idea down. She said you HAVE to be accepted to Econ first and then you can double major in w.e else through petition.</p>
<p>The undergraduate counselor for the Econ department is the one who puts you into the Econ major and she won’t let you do it either.</p>
<p>She’s the Indian lady on the 2nd floor of Bunche. You have like a 1% chance of getting into it, so I wouldn’t start taking the pre req classes (unless you already have them done) and then assuming they’ll let you in.</p>
<p>I had EVERY SINGLE BUS ECON/ECON PRE REQ DONE WITH As AND Bs, INCLUDING ECON 11 (A-), ECON 41 (A), ECON 107 (A+); AND SHE WOULD NOT LET ME INTO ECON BECAUSE MY MAJOR WAS PRE-HISTORY.</p>
<p>I really can’t stress this enough. I was a pre-history major because I had it changed so I could take an upper div history class for fun. I was accepted as pre-bus econ when I came in. This was a confusion on her part, obviously, but the fact remains that I could not even get into Econ with all pre reqs done just because my major was listed as History. THIS IS HOW STRICT THEY ARE. The only thing I can recommend is that you try to talk to the department head or someone even higher up.</p>
<p>Going on a tangent here, but I just wanna make a side note…</p>
<p>We all known Econ at UCLA is impacted, but I don’t think people understand just how impacted it is. The weeder classes (econ 11, 41, 101) are always filled to capacity with 300 students and usually with 2 sections. It’s like this every quarter and offered during the summer too. It really is a mission to get the econ classes you want even with junior/senior level priority. I have heard the Econ department is strained between the little funding they get and how many econ students they have to accommodate. Because we don’t have an undergrad business department, anyone and everyone wanting to do anything business related will go into Bus Econ/Econ/Math Econ. There are so many freshmen on my floor already signed up as Pre-Econ majors since they first entered.</p>
<p>As even a small college remarks:</p>
<p>“The increase has strained professors and class enrollments. Associate Professor of Economics Ta Herrera said, “classes are largely very full, much fuller than they used to be.” Economics classes frequently have long waiting lists, and professors often bump up enrollments beyond the cap, he said.”
*[Econ</a> major becomes more popular in recent years](<a href=“http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2009-05-01§ion=1&id=3]Econ”>http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2009-05-01§ion=1&id=3)</p>
<p>I could not imagine the amount of people going into the Econ major for any school going down as the years go on. As our country/world further industrializes and businesses become larger/more complex, the demand for Econ majors continually rises. Econ is always consistently in the top 10 (top 3 if you count Engineering as 1 major) demanded majors by employers and consequentially, the demand by students goes up as well.</p>
<p>Note that: Economics is the top major at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford and the Universities of Pennsylvania and Chicago; second at Brown, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley; and third at Cornell and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Companies really really need people who understand Economics working for them. And especially considering the recession we are in right now, I would imagine they would want these people even more so. For those who did not jump on the bandwagon early enough and cannot get into the major now, I’m going to go out a on a limb and say…</p>
<p>Take as many Economics classes as you can even if you are not in the major. Remember that your work resume includes listing coursework taken and these classes can be listed in that section. If employers want economics majors, then it should be reasonable to assume they want people who have taken economics classes. In my opinion, it could only help your resume to show employers that you have a concrete understanding of economics. I don’t know how many econ classes you can take without being in the major, so this is just my purely theoretical advice.</p>
<p>hey AMAZING, you should continue with the econ threads because your making everyone feel depressed about getting accepted to the crappy poli sci or soc major or premed microstophocologenosecology major whatever and convincing them to major in econ because econ is where’s it at yo</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>I haven’t put any majors down or anything. There’s a difference between talking good about something and talking **** about others. Any major could make a “Why you should major in History/Poli Sci/Sociology/Etc thread.”</p>
<p>And obviously Econ is not for everyone. If you want to be a doctor, it would probably be dumb to do Econ. The thread is more for people on the fringe between majors or to encourage those already in the major who get stupid comments like “econ is useless.”</p>
<p>Also, you are obviously ■■■■■■■■.</p>