UC Chances and choosing a major

<p>CA my whole life (actually born at UCLA Medical Center and lived in Brentwood for 12 years)
3.96 UC GPA
2100 expected SAT 1 (current best: 2000)
760 Math II
700 Bio-M</p>

<p>EC
Three main ones:
Professional Web Designer (paid), all 4 years
Started my own local computer repair business (past 3 years)
President of Computer Technology Club (10-11)</p>

<p>Others:
recreational sports
AYSO Children's Soccer Referee (volunteer)</p>

<p>Community Service ~ 150-200 hours
Awards- AP Scholar, multiple high school, academic awards</p>

<p>Essays include obvious passion about computer-related stuff for potential to contribute, and a unique experience early in my life which has influenced me, as well as what I did with that influence for open-ended.</p>

<h2>My father's also a UCLA professor if that means anything.</h2>

<p>I'm applying to UCLA, UCB, UCSD, and UCI. UCLA is my favorite, and I want to be a CS major, though I'm worried about applying as one because it decreases my chances (I want to go to UCLA so bad I'm willing to sacrifice that). I'd appreciate if you could give me my chances, and how well those chances would suffer if I decide to apply as a CS major.</p>

<p>I think UCLA is a match
becasue of all your great EC's
And you dad is a prof. Don't you get admission if you parent teaches at UCLA?l i don't know..but i say you have good chance</p>

<p>I asked him, and he said there's pretty much nothing extra he can do. You can specify that a parent/guardian is a faculty member at one of the schools (and which school that is), but that's it.</p>

<p>r-akt:</p>

<p>UCLA: Slight Reach (Computer Science)</p>

<p>How much more difficult is it to get into computer science over the other engineering majors (just curious, because you distinguished it from "Engineering.") Also, how difficult would it be to change from a L&S major such as Mathematics of Computation to CS?</p>

<p>Apparently, it's possible (<a href="http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/change.html)%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/change.html)&lt;/a>, but i'm not sure how realistic it is.</p>

<p>r-akt:</p>

<p>The reason why I distinguished "Computer Science" from "Engineering" in my reply wasn't because it was more or less difficult to get into than other engineering majors. There are some people on the Internet who like to pick fights with me, thinking that Computer Science isn't a real engineering major compared to Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), because there isn't as much of a physical aspect to it, and because some schools teach Computer Science outside of their school of engineering... I just wanted to avoid another flame war. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>Yeah... so I got a 2110, and I also decided that I'm going to apply to as a Math of Computation major instead. I might try to switch to CS once I'm there, but if I can't, I'll be happy with this major.</p>