How would UCB/LA see my situation?

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<p>I wanted to major in history since I was a freshman in high school and recently I change my major to philosophy because i wanted to try something new. Now I'm pretty sick of philosophy and now want to change my major back to history. However, I am planning on transferring this year and I'm not sure how UCB and UCLA will evaluate my application.
Record:
Spring 2008-
Southeast Asian History: B
Spring 2009-
Current Issues: B
Intro to Sociology: B
Spring 2010-
Afro-American History: A
History of Mexico: A
Graduated High School: 2010
Summer 2010-
Freshman Comp: A
College Algebra: A
Current Fall 2010-
1. Ecology
2. Intro to Phil
3. Ethics
4. Logic
5. Phil of Art
6. Phil of Religion
7. World Religion
Plan for Spring 2011-
1. Physical Geography and Lab
2. US History Honors Part 1
3. US History Honors Part 2
4. Western Civilization Honors Part 1
5. Western Civilization Honors Part 2
6.World History Honors Part 1
7. World History Honors Part 2
AP Scores-
APUSH: 5; Art History: 3; Psychology: 4; US GOV: 3
As you can see, I am a one year transfer. Will that hurt my chances of getting in. Will my low AP scores be held against me? Will the Bs I got in college during my high school hurt me? Will all the philosophy classes I am taking right now instead of history classes have a negative impact on me during admissions?</p>

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<p>okay. so. yes, i think the fact that youre taking all phil classes this sem will REALLY hurt your chances at berk/la cuz that means that you have barely any pre reqs for hist. im a hist major too. yeah its fine and dandy that you SAY youre going to do those other hist pre reqs but you and berk/la both have no way of knowing for sure that you will. also, i know that berk/la are both REALLY anal about transfer students having their pre reqs done.
the way i see it you have several options:

  1. stay another year and spread those damn hist pre reqs out so you actually LEARN something and apply next year when you have them done. its insane to take 6 history classes at one time. i love history too and i would never do it out of repect for the subject.
  2. apply as phil, get in, and switch your major to history. it really depends on the school but i think ive heard of it being done in berk.
  3. apply as history and most likely get rejected.</p>

<p>and your AP scores arent low, theyre passing! they will deffs not be held against you.</p>