<p>How much does your choice of major affect your admissions decision? Do less popular majors not need as impressive stats, or is everyone looked at equally without regard to major?</p>
<p>how major affects admission is answered on the ucla admission page.</p>
<p>Within the college of letters and sciences, applicants are reviewed without regard for major. For all other schools (engineering, arts and architecture, nursing, theater…) they further review the applicants by major.
From the UCLA website under “how the admissions process works for freshmen”</p>
<p>Edit: I’m not sure exactly how they further review but my guess is that they focus on subjects/ecs that are geared toward that major?i know that the arts have portfolios and auditions…</p>
<p>For freshman admission, all majors within L&S are equally competitive. Engineering is major/division-specific in admission. Majors in Arts and Theater are based on talent. Nursing is just ridiculously competitive.</p>
<p>For transfer admission, evaluation is major-specific for ALL majors. You can see the most recent admit rates (Fall 2011) at <a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof11_mjr.htm[/url]”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof11_mjr.htm</a></p>