Thanks so much for your suggestion. You indicated that I should have my son contact UC Davis ASAP with his first semester grades and try to get in on appeal. Two questions: 1) Would it be better to wait another week and possibly see what other UCs he is admitted to before appealing to Davis, or is time of the essence? 2) Should he say that although he is interested in mechanical engineering now, he looks forward to taking a lot of breadth courses, and is open to other majors if something else piques his interest? I am wondering if he shows flexibility and is willing to be open to other majors, if that would make more of an impression on admissions personnel. After all, he has not taken any engineering classes and isn’t even sure how much he will like them. Further, statistically more than 70% of college students change their major at least twice during college. Thanks very much.