<p>So I got accepted by UCSD (woot) but they said I got admitted as undeclared b/c the major (ME) is impacted. So is it possible for me to switch to engineering? How hard would it be to finish on time if I started out as undeclared? I got into the Warren college btw.</p>
<p>You shouldn’t finish late. All engineering curriculums start off the same with calculus and physics and college requirements. Just make sure you switch over to ME when there are spots available.</p>
<p>Not unusual. Not as bad as being deferred. It would have been weird to be accepted directly into engineering, normally how it works is you have to officially prove yourself by competing a year of calculus, physics, and intro courses in your intended major (in this case ME). I wasn’t officially an engineering physics major (with a CS concentration) even once I’d transferred to OSU after having taken a year of calc, a year of physics, differential equations, and linear algebra at my previous school. I first had to accrue some credit at OSU just to <em>enroll</em> in the CoE as a PRE-major and take the intro to engineering sequence. And I wasn’t officially a major until I completed a year of software engineering. And this wasn’t even for an impacted major, this was simply procedure.</p>
<p>You will likely experience something similar. It’s a thing about engineering, I guess it’s because the classes are so capital-intensive they don’t want to “waste” them on unproven people.</p>
<p>So no, it’s not a rejection, and congrats on your acceptance to UCSD.</p>