<p>I have a friend who plans on applying to ucsd. He was wondering if he could apply as a music major, get in, and change to bio or chem. Thanks</p>
<p>Alot of times they want an audition from music majors. I’d definitely check into that too!</p>
<p>Sure he can. But he’d better be ready to perform well academically because there’s stiff competition for switching into bio majors, especially since its impacted.</p>
<p>Kind of sounds pointless to me.</p>
<p>I would never risk it attempting to change in to an impacted major - no way.</p>
<p>Your friend should apply as Bio and then another non impacted major as a backup.</p>
<p>The point cutoff to get into the school and the point cutoff to get into an impacted major are different (with the impacted major one being a higher point total). So regardless of your friends declared major, if he has a good application, he’ll get in</p>
<p>Thanks for all the responses. I’m a transfer at UCSD so I don’t know much about freshman admissions, but I’ll head over to the counseling office once i’m back in sd and get a for sure answer. I’ll let you guys know what they say.</p>
<p>Your friend could always change to biochem/chem, which isn’t apparently isn’t impacted (vs. biochem/bio, which is). I just did that today. And chemistry isn’t impacted, so anyone could switch in anytime. :)</p>
<p>Major doesn’t even factor into your overall admission to the university; you are accepted to UCSD first, then evaluated for the major. If it’s impacted and you don’t get in you are just accepted as an “undeclared” major instead. This is how it is for transfers, it might be different for freshmen.</p>
<p>^ It’s the same for freshmen (though I think you might be placed into your secondary major before being undeclared).</p>
<p>^Which proves the point that applying to another major just to switch into an impacted one makes absolutely zero sense and I feel sad for the people who tried to do it that way.</p>