<p>I liked UCLA when I went there so much that I'm willing to take the gamble of trying to transfer into the COE. I think I have three options here:</p>
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<li><p>Apply directly to CS which has a 13% acceptance rate; good chance I won't get in, but if I do, I'm set.</p></li>
<li><p>Apply to EE which has 30% acceptance rate and try to transfer to CS; if not, im content with that.</p></li>
<li><p>Apply to L&S which I have a good chance at getting in and then try to transfer to COE and run the risk of not getting in (then what would I do)</p></li>
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<p>Quick stats:
4.0 UW GPA
4.55 W 10-12 GPA</p>
<p>2030 SAT: 630 CR 720 M 680 W</p>
<p>30 ACT: 33 Eng 30 M 32 R 26 Sci</p>
<p>7 AP Classes in high school/3 honors</p>
<p>Taken all 7 offered math courses
Taken all offered AP science classes. </p>
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<li>Alg 1, Alg2, Geometry, Pre-calc, AP calculus AB, AP Statistics, Finite, AP physics 1, AP bio, AP envir sci, honors chem</li>
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<p>So what should I do? I really liked UCLA.
Also if I apply to engineering should I not include my ACT score since my math and science are actually worse than english/reading?</p>
<p>Note that a 3.500 GPA in the preparatory courses is required just to apply into the competitive admission process to engineering or CS majors.</p>
<p>Bottom line is, if you are considering matriculating to UCLA L&S, be sure that you have a suitable plan to major in an L&S major in the likely event that you are not admitted to an engineering or CS major.</p>
<p>It is mostly linguistics, but adds the introductory CS sequence and a few other CS courses in programming languages, algorithms and complexity, languages and automata, and either compilers or artificial intelligence.</p>
<p>Note that it also needs either one foreign language at the 6th quarter level or two at the 3rd quarter level each (3 quarters = 1 academic year).</p>
<p>You should definitely not apply to L&S because at UCLA, it is very hard to transfer into another school, especially engineering. In addition, you could be stuck with an unfavorable major if you can’t transfer out. Would you want to do a major that you aren’t really excited about just to say you got into a very impressive school? I would just apply to the major that you are most interested in pursing a career in, and hope for the best</p>
<p>Hi, I’m currently a freshman CS major here at UCLA so I might be able to help you out</p>
<p>First and foremost, you haven’t given enough information about yourself; what’s your race, gender, sexual orientation, and what extracurricular activities do you participate in? If you’re a straight asian male with insignificant extracurricular activities, then with your scores I wouldn’t count on getting into UCLA at all, let alone into COE. On the other hand, if you’re a lesbian african american female with strong EC’s and an interesting life story, you’d probably get into COE relatively easily. </p>
<p>That being said, I’m not sure if the 13% vs. 30% will factor much into your decision. Simply because a greater percentage of people get into EE doesn’t mean it’s easier to get into EE–it could also mean that generally more qualified applicants who have a better idea of what they want to do at college apply to EE, whereas people who are simply going to college to earn money (and thus might not be nearly as passionate for CS as the EE majors are for EE) apply to CS. </p>
<p>As previously mentioned by other people, transferring from L&S to COE is hard. Like, really, really hard. Getting a 3.5 is no joke, especially if you’ve never taken a computer science class before, and even if you do get a 3.5, there’s still no guarantee that you’ll be able to switch. If you want to be a CS major, apply to COE!</p>
<p>Overall, my advice would be to straight up apply to CS. If you get in, you’re set, if you don’t, then you probably wouldn’t have fit in here anyway. </p>