<p>Currently I am undeclared-Social sciences, but I was wondering how hard it would be too change my major to communication studies.</p>
<p>wait, it shouldnt be hard isnt? the communication studies major is in the social science department of letters and science so if you were accepted as a undeclared social science major in the college of letters and science it should be no problem. i tink.... someone verify please.</p>
<p>comm major is impacted - you have to apply to get in. apps come out on april 3 online and theyll tell you in august if you made it. its very competitive</p>
<p>so if we want to switch majors, we have to fill out an application? what do they judge us by on the applications in order for us to get into that major? i thought you could easily just change majors within the same College by telling the Department or something.</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>so what you're saying is that for example, a biology major and a business-econ major entering fall 2006 as a freshmen has the same status, and they both can study whatever they want to until junior year when they both can apply for business-economics if that is what they want to do? so being accepted into a major only affects you in your junior year? the first 2 years, u basically don't do anything except take GE courses and have fun or something??</p>
<p>^^^ i have the same question...</p>
<p>i just want to clarify something about the comm major...for those that are seriously interested in the major, DO NOT TAKE ALL THE PRE REQ BEFORE APPLYING TO THE MAJOR!!!!!! you will find this out when u attend the comm major meetings, but that is the last thing you want to do. yes you need some (2 is minimal, but no more than 4) but if you have more than that, they see it as you relying on getting into the major. they usually turn people away who only focus on comm courses, your selection of courses (dont take easy easy ones and make sure they are not really comm-related) and your gpa are key.</p>
<p>" so what you're saying is that for example, a biology major and a business-econ major entering fall 2006 as a freshmen has the same status, and they both can study whatever they want to until junior year when they both can apply for business-economics if that is what they want to do? so being accepted into a major only affects you in your junior year? the first 2 years, u basically don't do anything except take GE courses and have fun or something?? "</p>
<p>Yes and no. Yes that a biology major and a business economics major entering have the same status (both are in the L&S college). No to that they both study whatever they want--I guess I should have been clearer on this. You take the pre-reqs APPLICABLE to your INTENDED major. So if you wanted to be bio, you would take classes related to bio. If you wanted to be biz-econ, you take biz-econ pre-reqs. The specific courses required for each major can be found on department websites. Clearly, you can't apply for biz-econ if you've been taking all biology classes. What I meant is that you can take biz-econ reqs EVEN IF you're classified as a pre bio major. Once you finish all this biz-econ pre-reqs you can apply for the major, even if you've been classifeid as pre-bio. Once you apply for your formal major, your pre-classification doesn't matter. Of course you could re-classify yourself as your INTENDED major if it doesn't fit what you're currently studying, but pre-anything basically is no different from being undeclared.</p>
<p>edit: I responded to your question further on another thread. I looked at your post history and all of your posts seem to be about this; STOP STRESSING. This is not a problem you should worry about at all.</p>
<p>to brandnew2, thank you, that clears up a lot of stuff :)</p>
<p>Hmm...well, I took math 3a, chem 14a, and anthro this quarter, but I didn't take any of the comm prereqs yet. So if I took 2 prereqs and like..one classics course spring quarter do you think they'll think I'm being dependent on the comm major (by not taking any math or chem)?</p>
<p>lol no. youre fine.</p>
<p>Ok, I just posted a question related to this topic on another thread and then found this one! So, my question is, what about for transfer students? Is it possible for someone to switch into comm after transferring(assuming they have all the prereqs done). Will having extracurriculars/high gpa help? I heard it's nearly impossible as a transfer student.</p>
<p>Bleh. It doesn't matter anymore, I'm not getting into comm. I just got a C+ in math. Oh well. Completely ruined my gpa, and they only accept around 3.8 and 3.9 right? =/</p>
<p>.yellow.- </p>
<p>No, you can't switch into comm as a transfer. Unfortunately, if you aren't accepted directly into the program, its almost (entirely?) impossible to switch after you've been accepted into something else. To transfer directly into the program, one should have at least a 3.8 (which is the absolute lowest generally) and as many lower divs completed as their previous school offered. Acceptance for transfers in comm generally hovers around 15% and it's based almost entirely on gpa and course completion. </p>
<p>cocoa- </p>
<p>are you a first or second year? you may still have time to raise it....possibly?</p>
<p>I'm a first year. I really wanted to try applying and getting in this year...because if I were to apply 2nd year then I don't know what kind of classes I would take (like if I should start with the upper div comm classes but isn't that a risk?), especially since I'm almost done with GE's...=/
I think that even if I get all A's next quarter I'll still have like...a 3.6 overall this year. I should even bother applying this year, huh? =[</p>
<p>have a backup major ready but doesnt hurt to try esp since u dont need to write an essay or anything, and u might even have a better shot second year if you bring ur gpa up. if youre not sure what kind of classes just meet with the comm major counselor</p>
<p>Is a 3.79 considered a 3.8 by UCLA communication standards?</p>
<p>I am a transfer student and have all the prereqs completed as well as basically all the comm prereqs. My essays are great, and I have great EC including working on a well known documentary film which my brother produced. </p>
<p>Last week I met with a UCLA rep at my CCC and it seemed to go really well. He said since Communication Studies requires a minimum gpa of 3.5 along with being IGETC certified, of the 800 people or so who apply, only about 150 make the cut. After that, there is room for about 80 students...so, the changes all of a sudden seems a lot better. The meeting seemed to go very well, do you know if meeting with a UCLA admissions rep will help me get in? I am just so nervous because I want to get into UCLA comm more than anything. </p>
<p>Applied: UCLA, UCB, UCSD, UCSB
Got in: UCSD, UCSB
Waiting: UCLA, UCB</p>
<p>tallkell, what do you mean by "there is room for about 80 students" after the 150 transfers are accepted? Does that mean they will accept 80 additional transfer students into the major after they've arrived at ucla? seems like wishful thinking to me, but I really do hope that's the case bc I applied for a diff. major but really want to do comm there too!
By the way, how did you get the meeting with the admissions rep??</p>