<p>This comes up a lot so I thought it would be a good idea to clarify it. If you are a freshman and are accepted into UCSC under a proposed major it doesn't matter what it is. Most people don't declare majors till their second year in college. Reason why is because a lot of people don't know what they want to study when they come in as a freshman. Also, a lot of majors have some sort of requirements/prerequisites in order to be able to declare it. For both Business and Econ majors, you have to get over a 2.8 GPA in both Econ 1 (Microeconomics) and Econ 2 (Macroeconomics) in order to be able to declare. When I applied to UCSC, I did it under psychology because I didn't know what I wanted to do and I had heard that you had a lesser chance in being accepted if you applied under undeclared. Now I am a proposed Business/Econ major. The only exception to this is Engineering majors. People who apply to UCSC under an engineering major are actually applying to be accepted into Jack Baskin School Engineering. So it's like being accepted into a college within a college. You can still take engineering classes even if you're not in the major and if later you decide you want to be an engineering major, you can apply to declare the major.</p>
<p>To further clarify about engineering…</p>
<p>Some students get direct acceptance into their major based on GPA and the courses they took in high school. This allows them to declare their major in their first quarter, without taking the usual prerequisite classes. </p>
<p>Otherwise, declaring a major is mostly dependent on your BSOE GPA and classes taken. For instance, you need to take CS12A, CS12B, CE16, Math19A, and Math19B (or equivalent) to declare as game design. Your BSOE GPA is the GPA of all classes that apply to the major you want to declare. All those GEs that fluff out your normal GPA don’t apply.</p>
<p>is there anyway to know if i have been accepted to my major before going to UCSC? this is for engineering</p>
<p>It’s been a while, but I remember receiving a special info packet from BSOE not long after I was admitted to UCSC. If you have access to my.ucsc.edu, you might try checking under “My Student Center” -> “My Academics”</p>