<p>My letter didn't give me any information on whether or not I was accepted into the major I indicated on my application (both choices I picked were impacted.) I assume this means they either don't want to tell me yet or didn't want to let me go ahead and take that major.</p>
<p>Obviously this is fairly important to me... does anyone know exactly what you have to do to get into an impacted major?</p>
<p>if you didn't get admitted into the major directly as an incoming student then it is very very difficult to get into one. i knew these people who came in as undeclared but they wanted to become electrical engineers. well they talked to the counselor and the counselor said that they would have to get a 3.5 or above in some screening courses (calculus, physics, electrical engineering)... but the thing is those courses are very very very hard. i mean with some electrical engineering courses sometimes half of the class would end up having to retake the courses.</p>
<p>Yes, apparently the process is through the Exceptional Admissions Program.</p>
<p>Just found that here: <a href="http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/undergrad/admissions/exceptionaladmissions/exceptionaladmissionsprogramshome.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/undergrad/admissions/exceptionaladmissions/exceptionaladmissionsprogramshome.html</a></p>
<p>Looks like that's what I'm doing.</p>
<p>Although I'm not sure that I didn't get in... apparently Jacobs sends a separate, second letter with whether or not you get into CSE. So there's still hope of doing it the easy way.</p>
<p>I'm perfectly happy with having to scale the mountain to do it though... not a problem. I'm just happy now that I know there's a way.</p>
<p>where theres a will there is a way. good luck.</p>
<p>What exactly is an impacted major?</p>
<p>the most dificult majors that have the highest demand.</p>