<p>Hi ! I'm a senior in high school and am currently applying for freshmen year at the UC schools. For UCSD I am planning to major in biology, but am nervous at whether I can actually get accepted with the major (since it's very popular). </p>
<p>Could I get accepted into UCSD as undeclared (instead of the major I chose), or will I be rejected from the school altogether ?</p>
<p>They first accept you into the university and then the major so applying as a biology major will not affect your chances of getting in. So if they accept you for the university by not for the major, you will be admitted as undeclared.</p>
<p>Not sure if you’ve already submitted the application but last year I didn’t believe I would get into my impacted major too but I chose that (physiology and neuroscience) as my first choice. As long as I remember you can also choose the alternate major, which if you wanna play safe then I would recommend choosing a non-impacted major that you are interested.
For me, I just feel like applying as undeclared does not do anything to help you get in nor hurt you. Actually as long as I know, it’s still hard to apply into one of the majors within Bio Dep. once you are already an undeclared UCSD student. So long story short, if I could go back and complete my college app again, I would still put my impacted major as my first choice.</p>
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<p>That’s not playing it safe because that doesn’t change anything. It doesn’t matter if you put a impacted or non-impacted major down. It does not change your chances of getting accepted into the university.</p>