<p>Is applying as chem major make it more difficult to get into the UCs than for example a business major?</p>
<p>Only Berkeley and Riverside among the UCs have undergraduate business majors.</p>
<p>In both cases, frosh do not enter the campus in the business major; they must complete the prerequisites and then apply to the business major. At Berkeley, this is a highly competitive admissions process; at Riverside, this appears to be just meeting a 2.5 GPA overall and in prerequisites.</p>
<p>At both campuses, declaring changing into the chemistry major does not appear to be difficult (passing prerequisites and being in good academic standing with a 2.0 GPA). Note, however, that Berkeley offers the chemistry major in both the College of Letters and Science and the College of Chemistry; it may be more difficult to get into the latter as either frosh or changing division.</p>
<p>Note that chemistry does not have particularly good job and career prospects at graduation; chemical engineering is probably better.</p>
<p>I was thinking of majoring in chemistry and then going on to parham school. So basically majoring in the sciences doesn’t decrease my chances at the UCs?</p>
<p>You will have to check each campus to see if any major you are interested in is impacted or has higher standards due to high demand relative to capacity. The answer is not necessarily the same for each campus.</p>
<p>Note that no specific undergraduate major is required to prepare for pharmacy professional school. However, they do have undergraduate course requirements which are somewhat similar to pre-med course requirements. See [AACP</a> - Pharmacy School Admission Requirements](<a href=“http://www.aacp.org/RESOURCES/STUDENT/PHARMACYFORYOU/ADMISSIONS/Pages/PSAR.aspx]AACP”>http://www.aacp.org/RESOURCES/STUDENT/PHARMACYFORYOU/ADMISSIONS/Pages/PSAR.aspx) .</p>