Does anyone know if I can call or email admissions to switch my major with my alt. major right now? I applied as “pharmaceutical chemistry” as my first major and “chemical engineering” as my alternate major but found out that pharmaceutical science major requires biology courses in which I haven’t taken any yet. I haven’t taken any of the biology courses because chemical engineering/chemistry does not require any biology courses (for all UCs). And I thought major requirements for pharmaceutical chemistry would be the same as a chemistry major.
Or if I get rejected by my first major would they allow me in for my alternate major provided that I have 4.0 GPA with only one more physics course to finish in spring for my alt. major.?
My personal counselor/advisor mistakenly told me to apply as pharmaceutical science without fully reviewing my transcript. Am I screwed? I’m just so desperate and sad right now… please help me
@vousmeuerz As long as it’s in the same college (e.g., College of Engineering, College of Letters and Science, etc), you can change majors up until end of Dec or beginning of January. I’m not sure of the date.
However those appear to be in two different colleges (Engineering vs pharmaceutical/chemistry). You cannot switch from one college to another, at least at Berkeley, but I assume it is UC-wide.
That sucks that the advisor wasn’t thorough. I’m not sure of the UCI alt major policy. UCSD only accepts alt if the first is selective, I believe. Hopefully pharmaceutical science is selective. They may just do it anyway.
You should contact both right away and find out your options.
Contact both schools and see if you are able to switch. UCI usually requires that you attend orientation before allowing the change of major but better to get the information directly from the source.
Hey! I ran into a similar problem. So I went onto the UCSD portal and they give you the option to change your majors until Jan 30th. I also called and the lady said there should be an option to do it on the portal and she was right. So I would change it there/
Thank you so much, everyone!! And yeah I was surprised by the fact that UCSD lets us freely change major even after the deadline! I guess UCI only lets me change my first major but not the alternative. But still, I’m glad that I was able to change ?
I was surprised by the fact that UCSD lets us freely change major even after the deadline! I guess UCI only lets me change my first major but not the alternative. But still, I’m glad that I was able to change ?