UCSB Major Change

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Coming from a community college, I was accepted into as a Sociology transfer. I sent an email to admissions asking to change my major to Biopsychology but now I'm a little worried that I didn't think things through thoroughly enough.</p>

<p>I'm going to be transferring with IGETC and an AA in Sociology, but the pre-reqs for biopsych are a lot different than sociology. Will asking to change my major to something with different pre-reqs after I've already been admitted be an issue (possible decision rescended after submitting transcripts?) or will I be OK because I was already accepted for sociology and will have those courses completed? </p>

<p>If it comes down to it, I'll hopefully be able to stick with sociology just to stay at my dream school and then request a major change at a later date.</p>

<p>I was accepted into the College of Letters and Science if that makes any difference.</p>

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<p>Last year I went to their Transfer day thing/openhouse thingy and I asked this question cuz I got accepted as a Classics Civilization concentration in Archaeology major and I wanted just to do Anthro…and the adviser that day told me that it would be no problem because it was at the College of Letters and Science and its a social science and its not that hard to do it.
She said to do it ASAP though.
But
you should call the department you want to switch majors to.</p>

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<p>I will be looking forward to get some more info on this </p>

<p>please keep posting…</p>

<p>I want to change my major from biz-econ to bio…</p>

<p>but i asked them but they wouldn’t change it until i finish all the pre-req courses</p>

<p>But it is still in same department which is college and letters and sciences.</p>

<p>So my plan was taking few GE classes at UCSB and take bio class at SBCC </p>

<p>and then change my major… any info would be great…</p>

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<p>Thanks for the replies, I’ll let you guys know what happens either way.</p>

<p>If anyone else had gone through this process it would be great to hear more.</p>

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<p>I got an email from the UCSB administration office today letting me know that they went ahead and changed my major.</p>

<p>Only thing I’m worried about now is that my pre-reqs they accepted me for (sociology) aren’t going to be the same as what I should have for biopsychology. Would they accept me, allow me to change majors, and then take away my acceptance after the fact for not having the proper pre-reqs?</p>

<p>I’m probably just over analyzing this, heh.</p>

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<p>it probably will effect you if you dont have the proper pre-reqs.
ruh-roh
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<p>BUT u should be fine if you have the IGETC complete…</p>

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<p>i have igetc tho… if that helps… I will ask once more and will come back to this thread</p>

<p>when i get some more info… lets keep this topic for a while…</p>

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<p>I got another email from the UCSB admissions department:</p>

<p>“Your change in major has not impacted your admit status.”</p>

<p>My requested major change is also showing up on the UCSB admissions page so that’s good enough for me at this point.</p>

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<p>Why don’t you double major? </p>

<p>I’m going to be an incoming transfer to UCSB this summer. I just got in under sociology and will hopefully be doing psychology after that. Sociology is only 36 upper-division units so I found it a good chance to double major.</p>

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<p>I might consider doing that, but I mostly just wanted to be taking more science and math courses.</p>