<p>UCLA do not require that you be accepted before you can audition, anyone can apply and audition. However… regardless of how well a prospective applicant does at the audition and interview, he/she must still meet UCLA minimal academic standards in order to be accepted. TFT decides on who they would like to admit and then send the list to the UCLA admissions office who will then examine the applicants GPA, high school history and SAT scores before deciding to admit. So you need both a great audition and interview as well as reasonable academics to get in. Details are here:
<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/scholarship_reqs.html[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/scholarship_reqs.html</a>
I agree that the current system of audition and heartbreak is pretty bad, but it’s the best one we’ve got and I personally cannot see any other way of getting the right applicants to the right schools.
I forget the exact reasons that you can’t transfer from a theater major to a film major, but if I remember correctly then they are some thing along the lines of timing, class size, number of credits etc. and the limitations seem to be procedural rather than “control”.
Once admitted to UCLA as a theater major you can pretty much switch to anything else at UCLA you may be interested in majoring in within reason. e.g. even in TFT you can switch from MT to theater, class size permitting.</p>