UCLA's most competative majors

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<p>What do you think they are, in order of competativeness?</p>

<p>Here's my list:</p>

<p>1.Communication Studies
2.Business Economics
3.Economics
4.Sociology
5.Psychology</p>

<p>Also, what do you think is the real "hook" to getting excepted into majors like these?</p>

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<p>political science is pretty competitive</p>

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<p>[Profile</a> of Admitted Transfer Students by Major, Fall 2010 - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof10_mjr.htm]Profile”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof10_mjr.htm)</p>

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<p>They accept 30% of transfers, which is higher than he 25% they accept for psychology and the 21% they accept for sociology.</p>

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<p>only 680 people applied for soc. compared to the 1,164 that applied for poly sci. that has to be taken into consideration :]</p>

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<p>If you really want to know the “hook” to get into those majors, I’ll tell you…</p>

<p>It’s learning how to spell competitive.</p>

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<p>@MidnightGolfer hahah that’s why you go to cornell.</p>

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<p>Communication and sociology are hard to get into? Wow. I did not know that. Are you serious?</p>

<p>Biz Econ is competitive to get in and once ur in.</p>

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<p>Communication is the most impacted major at UCLA; average admitted GPA is 3.95.</p>

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<p>(Pre)Economics has an avg. admitted GPA of 3.95… Comm was 3.94 -Although I personally don’t think that a 0.01 could make that much of a difference… After taking statistics, I’ll always be wary of averages that don’t show the outlier.</p>

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<p>I got into UCLA Pre Business Economics in 2007 with a 3.46 GPA out of City College of San Francisco, IGETC and pre reqs completed, TAP certified.</p>

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<p>times have indeed changed, smith…</p>

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<p>If you go off of number of applicants (I guess that would be most highly sought after majors):</p>

<p>1) Pre BizEcon - 1,973 applicants (for Fall 2010)
2) Pre Psychology - 1,550 applicants
3) Pre Political Science - 1,164 applicants
4) Communication Studies - 960 applicants
5) Biology - 924 applicants
6) English - 788 appliancants
7) Econ - 765 applicants</p>

<p>Compiled this list based on: [Profile</a> of Admitted Transfer Students by Major, Fall 2010 - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof10_mjr.htm#SEAS]Profile”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_tr/Tr_Prof10_mjr.htm#SEAS)</p>