<p>Hey everyone, I'm hoping someone could help me out because I am really starting to stress out. I am going to be applying to UCSD as a history major, and unless something catastrophic happens, I'm going to get accepted. Throughout this Fall semester I have lost interest in my history major and decided to pursue environmental science (Environmental Systems major at UCSD), but have very few pre-reqs done. I will have completed 6 of 12 lower division courses by the time I transfer (6 of 15 if I count labs). So what do you think are my chances of successfully changing my major at UCSD will be? Should I apply as an ESYS major instead of History and list history as my second choice? And lastly, at what point should I petition for a major change if I am admitted as a history major?</p>
<p>I still love history and plan on continuing to take courses in it, but my career choices with a history are just too slim. I had planned on becoming a teacher but after seeing how teachers are treated by the state just turns me off. So I feel like it is my best interest to pursue another field that interests me just the same and can be much more lucrative and almost as rewarding.</p>
<p>@iTransfer</p>
<p>I have already chosen history for my TAG major
But I doubt I would be able to meet the pre-req requirements for the Env. Sys. major TAG anyway.</p>
<p>If this is what you want to do you should do it but unless you have already taken some math and science courses, the prerequisites for a major like this could take almost two more years at your CC or at UCSD if you change your major after you transfer. You will probably have to take two or three term sequences each in Calculus, Biology with labs, Chemistry with labs, Physics with labs and Geology with labs. The courses have to be taken in sequence, you can not take Physics I and Physics II at the same time, and lab courses are particularly tough. Even though you only get one unit of credit for the lab portion of a class, science labs often require as much time and effort as a seperate three credit course would. It is generally not possible to take more than two laboratory courses a term since they require so much time and energy.</p>
