<p>On your application for UCLA, how important is the major that you put? Do they really look at that? Can't you put "undeclared"?</p>
<p>The only time your major that you put on your application matters, is if you're applying to engineering. The engineering college has their own separate admissions. If you're not engineering then yes, you can put undeclared or anything else in the college of letters and science and it won't matter. A LOT of people change their majors when they get to UCLA anyway, so it wouldn't make much sense to base admissions decisions on it.</p>
<p>It depends on the school, not the major like Brandnew2 said. So applying to the UCLA College of Letters & Science (most majors) is different than the Engineering school or the Film School or School of Nursing or the School of the Arts and Architecture.</p>
<p>I mean, if it matches up with your E.Cs, that's always a perk.</p>
<p>if you want to put down undeclared, then do it. there's absolutely nothing wrong with it; it wont make you any disadvantaged as the students who wrote down a major (when applying for UCLA's college of letters and sciences). </p>
<p>a plurality of freshmen enter as undeclared anyway, making 'undeclared' the most popular "major."</p>
<p>i was JUST talking to a friend who's going to be a senior in hs next year about this same issue....there's no bearing to what major you put down except for the cases mentioned above...i applied undeclared and i never thought twice about it really</p>
<p>Technically speaking, you dont HAVE a major until your junior year. At least, its not officially declared. Anyways, its so easy to switch majors within the College that most UCLA students do it at least twice before the finally decide.</p>
<p>Just pick something youre interested in and put it down....it won't make a lick of difference.</p>
<p>hold up, junior year, or if you have junior level credits?</p>
<p>neither. To clarify what the poster above said, usually what happens with a lot of majors is you enter as a "pre" major. e.g. I entered as pre-business econ. You take a set of pre-req courses first and then when you're done you either apply or for some majors you're automatically admitted. The typical time it takes for people to finish their pre-reqs for a typical major is somewhere around the end of sophomore year; that's why you technically don't have an actual major until junior year. However, some people go faster than others, I know people that have been undeclared well into their third year and there are people who are formally admitted to their majors early in their sophomore year. It depends on how fast you go. Class standing and what year you are is largely irrelevent.</p>
<p>I put myself down as an undeclared social sciences major. I am sure that I want to major in political science, but I can't seem to find a way to change my "undeclared" into this major (at least at MYUCLA). Can I do this during orientation?</p>
<p>you can't change your major during orientation, as most majors require you to have at least a 2.0 gpa for a quarter if you want to change. However, you can take classes in the major you intend to switch into, plan on going into that area of study, and once you have your 2.0, talk to the department and they'll do it for you no questions asked.</p>