<p>Is it possible to do it across departments?</p>
<p>as in from a liberal-arts curriculum to perhaps a biology one?</p>
<p>and does anyone know if i is possible to switch into pre buisness econ or regular econ from another major in l&S</p>
<p>and can I change my major in College of Letters and Science from slavic studies to polisci?</p>
<p>I just posted this in another thread. Just replace "comm" with the major you are concerned with and ignore the part about it being extremely competitive. Unless you're biz-econ, which is also extremely competitive:</p>
<p>As an entering student in the College of L&S you can PURSUE any major you want, because everyone is classified as pre-major status. It doesn't matter what you're actually classified as when going in; you can take any pre-reqs you want and apply for any major you want. The way the comm major (and many other majors) work is you take a set of pre-req courses (NOTE: you can be classified as anything you want while you do this, it doesn't matter) and then at the end of the year you apply for the major. You are admitted or denied based on your grades in these pre-reqs. Comm is only different in the fact that applications are accepted only once a year and admission to the major is extremely competitive., so you should have a back-up plan/major in case comm doesn't work out.</p>
<p>The only issue of "switching majors" is if you want to switch to something else once you're already ACCEPTED into the Comm major program, or if you want to switch to a different college such as the engineering college.</p>
<p>brandnew2, so if i want to change my major from bio to business economics or economics, what would i need to do? can i switch majors before school starts? i really want to do economics now so i just want to get into that major</p>
<p>They're not going to let you cheat your way into a major like that (applying to an easy major and then switching once you're in). However, I think you can do it if you have high grades during your first year, then apply.</p>
<p>?? Don't listen to r-akt. </p>
<p>collegegirlgirl, I tried to answer your question on the other thread. But again, it DOESN'T MATTER that you're classified as bio right now, because it's just a pre-major classification. You can go to the econ department and have them change your pre-major classification to pre-bizecon or pre-econ so that your degree report will accurately reflect your intentions; this is not a problem at all. You can switch between any number of pre-major classifications you want. The important thing, if you want to eventually do biz-econ or econ, is to take the pre-reqs required to apply for either of the majors. These can be found on <a href="http://www.econ.ucla.edu%5B/url%5D">http://www.econ.ucla.edu</a>.</p>
<p>so its not even a problem for a jump from poli sci to lets say molecular bio?</p>
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<p>yes, it's possible and easy. no problem </p>
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<p>yes. go to poli sci department (4th floor of bunche hall) to reclassify yourself as pre-poli sci. </p>
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<p>read brandnew2's above post (2 posts above mine)</p>
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<p>not a problem at all. i actually know people who've done this LOL, i laugh cuz i pity them for switching to the wrong side of campus ;)</p>
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<p>this only applies if you got into the college of letters and sciences and then tried to get yourself into a more competitive major, like engineering or theatre, etc. if you got into UCLA, you can switch to any of the majors within the college of letters and sciences with no problem. some of them may be impacted, so you'll have to complete the lower division prereqs with a certain GPA before you can get admitted into the actual major and take its upper divs.</p>
<p>brandnew2, so do you think it is a good idea for me to just change my pre-major classification to pre-bizecon or pre-econ or just stay with my pre-major biology? </p>
<p>you say that all that is important is that you take the pre-reqs required for businessecon or econ, when do you usually take these pre-reqs? are they the same as GE courses or what because I'm a little confused about GE courses and taking pre-reqs for your major. </p>
<p>another thing, what's the difference between lower and upper division prereqs? </p>
<p>also what would happen if i took the pre-reqs for businessecon or economics and i eventually don't get the gpa required to get into that major, what would happen?</p>
<p>So what's the difference between switching into an impacted major in the same college and an impacted major in another college?</p>
<p>I don't understand why anyone who knows they're not qualified for business-econ would apply for it if they knew they could just switch when they got there.</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me if AP tests count as clearing a pre-req course? The course description on the UCLA website says that "ALL PRE-REQS MUST BE TAKEN FOR A LETTER GRADE." Does that mean none of my AP tests will count as clearing a pre-req class?</p>
<p>PXalpine: No, it means that you can't take any of those pre-req classes that you take here as pass/no pass. You can still pass out of some of them with AP tests. For example, for my biz-econ pre-reqs I passed out of several coming in. But the pre-reqs that I take as courses here, I have to take for a letter grade. What happens is, you can choose to take classes as pass/no pass if you think you'll get a B or C and don't want the hit to your GPA; but you can't take any of your pre-reqs as pass/no pass. It's usually frowned upon to take too many pass/nopass classes in general anyway.</p>
<p>r-akt: I'm still not sure you understand how pre-majors work. When you apply to UCLA, they don't look at what you put down for your pre-major at all, as long as it's in the college of L&S. Whether you put down History or Biology or Econ is irrelevant because everyone comes into the college of L&S with a pre-classification. Just because you can switch from some easy major to something competitive like pre-bizecon doesn't mean anything, and it doesn't mean you're actually IN the formal biz-econ major. The ONLY thing you do when you declare a pre-major is you declare your intention to PURSUE that major. Nothing else. You still have to compete with everyone else to get in. Switching from college L&S into a major in the college of engineering is a totally different matter, because the engineering college has their own standards for admission. I don't kno whow to explain it any better than that.</p>
<p>collegegirlgirl: what I'm trying to say is, you could switch into pre-bizecon easily if you wanted, or you could stay in pre-bio if you wanted and just take biz-econ pre-reqs, it doesn't matter for now. I'm sure this will all become a lot clearer once you get to orientation and actually get here. Sometimes pre-reqs overlap with GEs, sometimes they don't. But they're not the same. I'd explain more in-depth but I have two big finals to study for. Lastly, a lot of people take biz-econ prereqs and don't end up getting into biz-econ. In that case, a lot of these people end up being plain econ because it has much lower admissions requirements. Just about everyone who wants to do plain econ can get in, so don't worry about that.</p>
<p>brandnew, so we take pre-reqs and GE courses the first 2 years? so i found out that prereqs for buzecon/econ is like a bunch of econ courses/math/englishwriting, so is it possible to fit in all our GE courses and our pre-reqs in the first 2 years or GE courses have to be completed by time of graduation? i found out you need like a 3.3 gpa to get into business economics. is a 3.3gpa fairly easy or hard to get ? i was also wondering if i could change my intended major as pre-bizecon at orientation day. by the way, how is orientation day? what do you guys do and do u actually meet friends there?</p>
<p>Ge courses by the time you graduate.</p>
<p>depends what kind you student you are...i work really hard here (im a first year) and i have a 3.9 something. if you put in the effort you will see results. you cant avoid class and then complain</p>
<p>dont really worry about declaring a major at orientation. doesnt matter right now.</p>
<p>orientation was fun. im actually going to room with my orientation friend next year :) you make ur first quarter schedule, attend whatever workshops you want, counselor tells you about GEs and how to pick classes etc. fun stuff.</p>