<p>It doesn't matter if you're in the engineering school right now. It's not like those LS Core courses are restricted to students only in the CL&S. Even if that is the scenario, you can speak to people in the chemistry or life sciences department when you enroll in classes if you cannot enroll in those life-science based chemistry and math courses. They can override your enrollment options on URSA (which is the site we use to enroll in courses among other things). At orientation, you can go to a building called Murphy Hall and fill out a major change slip (or whatever the hell it's called). It doesn't really matter though.</p>
<p>Why are you going to the Engineering Open House if you're not doing engineering anymore?</p>
<p>i was talking to counselors etc. They told me if i wanted to become a physician now, i should stick with EE as something to fall back on if i don't go through onto med school. Does anyone know anybody doing this and do you know if it will be harder on me in the long run or will it help me?</p>
<p>either way you will have a difficult 4 years of college either as a pre-med/biology or engineering major. As an engineering and pre-med?! That's pretty evil. Like I showed above, if you are truly confused about engineering and pre-med, just take the courses that are the same for both majors and decide later which pathway you want to take. This gives you some security and time to think. You can stay in HSSEAS and not have to worry about transferring later. EE will be hard to get a high GPA for medical school.</p>
<p>well Emmeline,
Isn't it true that no matter what major you have you can still apply for med school? If so, can't i just stick with EE while making sure i take the required classes for medschool? I believe most of the classes needed for medschool i need in EE anyways</p>
<p>Having the same courses between EE and biology would allow you to qualify for both majors in case you decide EE will be too hard for you to secure a decent GPA for medical school.
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I believe most of the classes needed for medschool i need in EE anyways
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Uh... scroll to a few posts above and see how I bolded the requirements that were the same for both majors. Here</a> it is. I'm just showing you an alternative and an option to make an educated decision later on. Engineering is difficult. They're notorious with their low GPAs. Low GPA => No medical school!</p>
<p>Yeah you can do that as long as you complete the requirements for medical school. You can do any major as long as you complete the requirements for medical school.</p>
<p>about switching majors...i called today and the lady told me that you could change majors during summer orientation..that it should be relatively easy process....well, that's what she said to me</p>
<p>yeah, a lot of people change majors during orientation. just let your OC know that you're thinking of changing majors and they'll tell you what you need to do.</p>
<p>There was a list of impacted majors at UCLA, and it did not include Biochemestry/Chemistry majors. However, in the registrar website, they list all the biochemestry/chemistry courses are highly impacted. Any current UCLA student who would please clarify this?</p>
<p>i believe "impacted" in that sense means it's a class a LOT of people decide to drop because it's difficult, yet it's also very popular. chem/biochem would be required for a lot of majors, so many people need to take those classes. however, they may also be considered "weeder" classes, so many students end up dropping out. but the school doesn't want people dropping out, say, 6th or 9th week, and hogging a space someone else could have used.
to try to prevent this, they call it "impacted" so students can only drop it during the first couple of weeks, not throughout the quarter. this is fairer overall because it means only dedicated students will take it, and if they're going to drop, they'll drop in time to give other students a shot.
so "impacted" really has two meanings, depending on if you're talking about a major or a class xD</p>
<p>Yeah changing majors within the CL&S should not be an issue. Changing from CL&S to HSSEAS is an issue. Changing within the HSSEAS to EE or BioE can be an issue. Changing into the Arts school from CL&S or HSSEAS is an issue.</p>