<p>So I know that bioengineering is extremely competetive to get into, but is that true for all engineering majors (like mechanical engineering for example)? Or are the other schools easier to get into overall?</p>
<p>No. Some engineering majors aren't impacted (more people want to have the major than the department can support). BioE is the hardest major to get in to I believe.</p>
<p>^--- What he said. The Bioengineering and computer science majors are impacted, but the rest aren’t.</p>
<p>All variants of CSE are (CS, CE, CS:Bioinformatics, etc).</p>
<p>isn't ECE impacted?</p>
<p>ECE is not impacted. It used to be because there was one class that had a ton of ECE majors, but that class graduated two years ago I think.</p>
<p>It's true that BioE/CSE etc. are impacted and harder to get into the other engineering majors, but there are still higher reqts. to get into an engineering major compared to a non-eng one.</p>
<p>what about EE? i thought engineering majors were impacted at every school.</p>
<p>Omg! I put my major down as cognitive science in the start but at the last minute I changed it because... (i have no idea).
I had no idea that it was competitive to get into !!!!!!</p>
<p>I think, THINK, i put it down as 1st choice BioEngineering (premed), 2nd choice Bioengineering (tech?).
Is the first one you guys are talking about, the hardest one? Or the 2nd one? Or..both..?</p>
<p>Biotech is much harder to get in than BioE premed – if you don’t get into premed, there’s definitely no way to get into Biotech.</p>
<p>With BioE premed, they don’t screen you at the prospective student level – instead, they screen you by making you maintain a 3.0 GPA within a subset of engineering-related classes (calc, programming, chem, physics, etc.). So, a lot more people get accepted into UCSD as BioE premed rather than BioE or BioE Biotech, but about 50% of the BioE premeds either drop or don’t make the 3.0 cut.</p>
<p>I would think you would have put Biotech as your first choice and BioE premed as your second, because (if I remember correctly) the application stated that if you chose BioE or Biotech, then you had to have a second, non-impacted choice.</p>
<p>so is EE an impacted major?</p>
<p>Here’s the list:</p>
<p>Oh no.. thanks sage for the information.
I do not think I'll get into UCSD then. I'll just cross my fingers for bioE premed..</p>
<p>Can you change your major after you get in? Just say I got in as BioEpremed, can I change it to cognitive science?</p>
<p>Definitely. Changing majors is relatively easy here (aside from transferring into engineering/impacted programs).</p>
<p>And don’t worry too much. :) I’m not some big hot-shot, and yet I got into Biotech.</p>
<p>...i thought bme premed was a impacted major? ><</p>
<p>nvm it is not impacted...srry for the post =D</p>
<p>however...just wondering is it harder to get into bmepremed than to get into a lsa, eg: biology, chem, biochem, etc.</p>
<p>bump.
I'd like to know the answer to the above question too..</p>
<p>No. As noted on this</a> page, if you’re accepted into UCSD, there is no screening process for engineers, except for impacted programs (BioE Premed is not impacted). So as long as you get accepted into UCSD, you’ll get accepted into BioE Premed.</p>
<p>THanks sage!</p>
<p>No prob. :) Good luck with admissions!</p>