Hey guys,
I am currently a sophomore who switched from the College of Letters and Science (Econ/Math) to The College of Engineering (Compsci) at UCSB. I had to deal with all the bureaucracy that comes with switching colleges within UCSB.
I’m procrastinating studying for finals, so let me know if you have any questions.
How hard was it to switch from a non-impacted major to an impacted one? I just got accepted for my alternate major, which was Pre-Chemistry, but my first choice is an impacted major (Chemical Engineering).
I have a lot of questions regarding the transfer! I’m currently a freshman in mathematical sciences and I was wondering how hard it was to get into the comp sci major. Are there any tips to help me get in? I’ve currently been overlapping classes that fit for both majors, but as the year goes by, the classes start to diverge and it’s been really hard just getting cs 16 (even during the 3rd pass time it was limited to majors only for waitlist!) so it seems impossible that I will ever get the class just to fulfill the pre-reqs to even PETITION to change majors. How did you manage to actually GET the classes??
Also, I just finished taking cs8 this winter quarter, if that makes a difference or helps.
@MsDotsy
http://engineering.ucsb.edu/current_undergraduates/pdf/GEAR-14-15.pdf#page=7
The link above has all the details for transferring into Chemical Engineering (and every other College of Engineering major).
They have intimidating jargon such as,
“Decisions involving factors beyond scores
and grades are made exclusively by the
chemical engineering faculty. Only a limited
number of petitions will be approved.”
for Chemical Engineering and,
“The selection process is highly competitive
and these milestones are minimum requirements
for consideration, achieving them
does not guarantee admission to the Computer
Science major.”
for Computer Science.
But it’s just there to deter people that are not serious about transferring in (and cover their asses legally just in case they have a surprise year where there really are too many petitions).
There were 32 petitions for Computer Science in Fall of 2014. Only 9 were accepted. The 23 that were declined were because they didn’t meet the grade requirements, not because of some random subjective thing.