<p>How many out there, recently accepted? :)</p>
<p>If you are done with the IGETCs and would have taken only four lit courses by the time of transfer, is it plausible to say I would be able to graduate in two years? What are the requirements you need to fill to declare your major and fulfill all the requirements?</p>
<p>What if you want to also minor in something else, like theater arts?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>missyujin</p>
<p>I was all 
when I saw the title of this thread,
I am an English major hopefully doing a concentration in film studies or creative writing I want to either double or minor in Chinese :)</p>
<p>“If you are done with the IGETCs and would have taken only four lit courses by the time of transfer, is it plausible to say I would be able to graduate in two years? What are the requirements you need to fill to declare your major and fulfill all the requirements?”
Sorry^^ no idea.</p>
<p>[: I was psyched because UCLA has such a great English program…I was in UCLA Young Writer’s Workshop back in 7th grade, and it really got me interested in writing in English (it’s not my first language, so I had a bit of an aversion to it for a while). :)</p>
<p>So yujin! I know you applied to Cal too? Which would you go to if you got accepted to both? Both have phenomenal English programs…!</p>
<p>I am not too sure right now. </p>
<p>UCLA
pro - nicer environment (in my opinion…), better weather, etc.
con - too close to home…I’m going to have to communite 30 min everyday instead of living on campus. :(</p>
<p>CAL
pro - better-known, more prestigious (may come in handy for law school apps, I don’t know)
con - I didn’t like the environment when I visited, and TOO MANY ASIANS.</p>
<p>Stanford would be best right. haha</p>
<p>Well, yes, but honestly I gave up all hope on that. I will most likely go to UCLA.</p>
<p>missyujin,
you are so asian if you think cal’s only pro is their prestigious-ness, lol.</p>
<p>I am Asian… :P</p>
<p>Of course I like Cal’s programs, but I assumed everyone would know that already. And another big pro…it’s away from home…far, far away…</p>
<p>I just got off the phone with my mom (who’s in Korea right now). I told her how worried I was about UCB, and she’s like, “it doesn’t matter, you’re going to UCLA anyway. It’s closer and their English program is better.”</p>
<p>This coming from an authentic Asian woman…Berkeley over UCLA? Totally anti-traditional. 
Sometimes I feel I care about prestige so much more than she does.</p>
<p>Sorry to ask a question on top of your question… but can you tell me what pre-reqs you finished for the English major?</p>
<p>there are so much! especially ucla and their foreign language + foreign lit classes. GAHHHHH.</p>
<p>I’ll be done with the IGETC this semester. Before this semester I didn’t take a single lit class…this semester I’m taking four. Shakespeare, intro to modern poetry, survey of english lit, and modern american lit.</p>
<p>is UCLA well known in Korea, I remember being in Korea back in 06 and all they really knew was stanford or berkeley…</p>
<p>Exactly. Almost everyone knows about Berkeley, but not all acknowledge UCLA as being around the same league. That’s why I was shocked at what my mom said.</p>
<p>My mom tells me they associate Berkeley with Harvard and Yale in Korea. UCLA is seen as middle of the road and USC is seen as a horrible school academically LOL.</p>
<p>Yeah, they do associate Berkeley with Harvard and Yale.
And apparently, I’m more Korean than my mom. :/</p>
<p>i want to switch my major to english, but i feel like its too late since ill be applying this fall.</p>
<p>if i do switch to english, ill only have 4/8 pre-reqs completed by the time i apply. ill have the rest finished by spring though…should i still switch? or will my chances for english be negatively affected because i only have half the pre-reqs done?</p>
<p>^If you finish all your prereqs during spring semester before you transfer then you should be fine. When you apply, the UCs will see that you are finishing the 4 prereqs in the spring on the “work in progress” section, so they’ll know you’re on the right track.</p>
<p>I’m an English major transferring to UCLA this fall and I’m finishing 2 of my last prereqs this semester, so there’s the proof for you:)</p>
<p>im just a bit concerned…i figured they’d pick someone who finished more pre-reqs over someone who hasnt by the time they applied…bec. they’d get a better idea of how good someone is in a particular major based on the amount of pre-reqs they’ve taken and what grade they got in them</p>
<p>jvn098: I’m an English major and was accepted at both Cal and UCLA. This fall (the same fall that I applied), I had one UCLA prereq completed because of an English AP tests I took my junior year of high school. I was also ENROLLED in one prereq at the time of application. This spring, I am currently completing two other prereqs. When I applied, I had NO PREREQ GRADES WHATSOEVER. When I updated my app in January, the UCs were able to see that I did get an A in the one prereq I took in the fall. Other than that, that’s the only grade either school has, and I’m actually still missing around two prereqs for both schools. So . . . prereqs aren’t everything. That’s not to say that they won’t play a decisive role in your admission, but don’t freak out if yours are a bit weak. I actually think they play a much larger role for other majors.</p>