<p>So UCLA TAP allows me to apply to an alternate major. </p>
<p>As far as acceptance that just means if I get accepted it's only one right?</p>
<p>Is there a chance to get accepted into my main and alternate?</p>
<p>You may only be accepted into one major. The advantage of TAP, as you said, is if you don’t have the stuff to get accepted into your primary major the admissions officer also takes a look at your alternative. This is a luxury non-TAP applicants lack. If you get accepted into your alternative, and your primary major is not impacted, once you transfer to UCLA and complete one quarter, you may switch. Though I’ve read threads of people calling up an impacted department and being informed that they indeed can switch afterwards. What I can advise you to do is to call the specific departments you’re interested in and ask them yourself if you can switch.</p>
<p>"If you get accepted into your alternative, and your primary major is not impacted, once you transfer to UCLA and complete one quarter, you may switch. Though I’ve read threads of people calling up an impacted department and being informed that they indeed can switch afterwards. "</p>
<p>Wow, I had no idea. That’s a neat little back door trick. You know I was talking with another student and he mentioned getting in with alternate then switching to his impacted major(poli sci) but then I showed him </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/files/cc10_transfermatrix_final.pdf[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/files/cc10_transfermatrix_final.pdf</a></p>
<p>Which specifically states, "What departments or majors, if any, are students NOT allowed to switch into once admitted?</p>
<p>Majors in Business Economics, Economics, Economics/
International Area Studies, Life Sciences, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. Also, majors outside the College of Letters and Science rarely, if ever, allow students to switch in from other majors."</p>
<p>But I can’t see why UCLA won’t allow him to switch into poli sci if he chose all the courses a poli sci major would take and not a single alternate major course. Basically he can force his way into an impacted major.</p>
<p>Any thoughts on this?</p>
<p>“…I was talking with another student and he mentioned getting in with alternate then switching to his impacted major(poli sci) but then I showed him”</p>
<p>So he was successful in switching into his impacted major? If so, that should give you hope in following his footsteps. Call the department you’re interested in and appeal. Prove/show them you’ve done the prerequisite classes needed. Many times I think it’s because people get rescinded from UCLA or people get scared that their major is “impacted” and switch out that allows others wanting in to be given a little leeway.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, my post is misleading. I was talking with a friend and he mentioned getting in with the alternate then switching into his impacted as a possibility/back door trick into getting into an impacted major.</p>
<p>I showed him the chart and it looked like I ruined his day because it specifically stated you can’t do that at UCLA. </p>
<p>Do you know anyone that has actually switched from a non-impacted to impacted?</p>