<p>at the transfer admit reception (STOMP, or something), a UCLA administrator told me in answer to a direct question that Econ (or Bus/Econ) and Political Science are the only two majors to which you can't switch into "if you really want to" after admission to your applied major. i asked about comm studies, reminding her of the 3.95 average transfer gpa.. she said sternly, 'no.. comm studies is not one of the impacted majors to which you cannot switch into." she repeated that econ and poli/sci were. i'm still not convinced, but i didn't want to beat a dead horse. </p>
<p>anyone have anything to say about this?</p>
<p>My friend was a philosophy major with a 4.0 – she transferred to UCLA last fall and changed her major to political science within the first few weeks of the quarter… She completed the pre-req’s for political science before transferring though.</p>
<p>yeah… poli/sci just became impacted this year, and apparently those majors she was talking about – the impacted ones that you can’t switch into – vary year to year.</p>
<p>Anyone know if double majoring in Econ/Poli Sci counts as a change of major?</p>
<p>^ i would love to hear that answer also. .</p>
<p>yes it does. a double major isn’t some special backdoor into impacted major. To double major you must get accepted to both majors which means you’d have to somehow be allowed to pursue the economics/poli sci major by the department if you weren’t originally admitted to that major. Otherwise, people would apply as obscure majors and “double” in econ/poli sci/comm and then just drop the obscure major for a single major after their petition to double major was accepted.</p>