Emergency Question - Engineering Major Switch?!?!?!?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>I submitted my UC app yesterday with
my Berkeley major as Engineering UNDECLARED,
which I just found out to be the most difficult
major to be admitted. </p>

<p>1) is it possible to modify my majors after I submitted my
UC app? How exactly do I do that?</p>

<p>2) if I had the choice to change to a different engineering
program, I would probably go for the easiest. Does anyone
know the ranking in terms of difficulty amongst the specific
engineering majors:
Electrical, Mechanical, Nuclear, Bio, Civil&Environmental, Industrial,
and Materials </p>

<p>If it helps, here's my stats
3.7~8 UW
4.1 UC GPA
SAT I: 2250
SAT II:800iic,760bio,740chem,740phys,600 ush</p>

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<ol>
<li><p>i believe it is possible. there should be procedures on their website about changing parts of the app. </p></li>
<li><p>um eng undecl > EECS =>? Bioeng> ?</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>Your stats are pretty strong, but your UC GPA is a little weak. You should pick the engineering major you are interested in. Going for Civil Engineering because it's the easiest (not sure if it is, but just saying) isn't a good plan I don't think. EECS is the hardest to get into, and the hardest courseload once you are in.</p>

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<p>I agree with kenf1234 that choosing a particular engineering major just because it is easier to get into is a bad idea. You run the significant risk of later being stuck in that major and not being able to switch into the major that you really want. It's not fun to be stuck in a major that you don't want and hence being forced to take classes that you don't care about.</p>

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<p>yup, don't be like me...I swear my classes are "objectively " easy. But I always don't do well on them because I totally hate them.</p>

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<p>This really is one of the worst things about Cal, that they make engineering students choose their specialty while still in high school. It's a bad system, it was a bad system 20 years ago when I went there, and for all I know was the same bad system 20 years before that. Anyway, the worst thing you can do is pick a major you don't like just to get in; better to go in undeclared L&S.</p>

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<p>Really, EECS has the hardest courseload? From what I see, Chemical Engineering has THE harderst courseload of probably any major in Berkeley.</p>

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<p>Well he didn't have Chemical Engineering on his list, that's what I meant, among the College of Engineering disciplines. Chemical Engineering is considered the hardest of all, I agree.</p>