<p>Hi, so I'm an incoming freshmen to ucsd but I always wanted to go to ucla cause everyone in my family went there and I live in LA. After I got rejected I decided to move on however now I have personal reasons to be in LA and once again my desire to go to ucla is reemerging. I currently have 52 units from ap tests and I can easily get to the required 90 units. My dilemma however is the prereqs required for some of the majors. Some courses are upper division courses and I won't be able to take them in my first year for majors like bio and chem. So could someone recommend an easy science major that I could finish the prereqs for one year? And also can I change my major at ucla once I've transferred in and passed 90 units? Thanks.</p>
<p>You can’t change your major once you transfer to anything that is impacted, so Engineering, any of the Econ majors, a lot of life science majors, etc etc…</p>
<p>@CSB111 what if I transfer into something that’s not impacted and then double major with one thing being impacted and one not being? </p>
<p>Can’t do that either. </p>
<p>Pre-reqs for transfer are not upper division, only lower division. Go to assist.org, put in any old community college, UCLA and then scroll around the majors. That will tell you what classes they require you complete (or recommend that you complete) for the major. Since you have 54 units you would be applying this Nov. You will need at minimum 36 more units, totally doable - assuming you pick the right major! </p>
<p>Also, major req are more important than breadth. Make sure major prep is done as per assist.org.</p>
<p>And, if you’re going to spend an extra year on a double major, which most employers don’t care about, might I recommend one major, and then a year or two getting a master’s instead? It’ll get you much much farther.</p>
<p>@lindyk8 pre-reqs for transfer can be upper division. <a href=“http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/admissions/erkki-admissions-pages/hsseas-transfer-requirements”>http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/admissions/erkki-admissions-pages/hsseas-transfer-requirements</a> For my major, ChemE, the pre-reqs contains 2 Ochem classes, which are upper division in UCSD.</p>
<p>How can you take UD at a community college? I thought they were all LD. </p>
<p>@lindyk8 Ochem at CC is LD? It’s weird. Ochem at UCSD is UD.</p>
<p>@CSB111 I’m pretty sure you can do that at ucla, you just have to be a top applicant for an impacted major if you’re changing majors that’s how it is at ucsd it won’t be different at ucla I’m pretty sure @lindyk8 there are upper division requirements for some majors, or at least they’re upper division at UCSD like organic chem, that’s why I’m not transferring as a chem major, and I’m pre med and want to do MD MBA, my brother and sister are already doctors so I just want to add the MBA to the family, so I want to double major in something in the sciences and something like economics and considering the units I already have and just adding more to my schedule than the average I can finish in four years </p>
<p>I transferred to UCLA as a Business Econ major, and you can’t switch into it or add the major or anything once you transfer. If it was possible I would’ve done it. </p>
<p>@CSB111 really? I’ve heard about people switching into impacted majors after transferring, and even people on here have said they’ve done it, they said you might just run into some difficulties depending on the department </p>
<p>Hmmm, I thought UC classes labeled 1-99 are LD and 100-199 are UD. 200+ are grad. I don’t know where these math and chem classes fit in though and maybe ea UC is different.</p>
<p>UCLA - you cannot switch into an impacted major not can you choose a second major that is impacted. However, and I’m not sure if you said this @csb111 but two ppl at UCLA have seemed to imply you can switch into an impacted major after the fact if it is in the same dept. Someone said during orientation in Econ they were told that, and an advisor in English dept told me you could switch from Amer Lit (non-impacted) into English (impacted) after you got in. These are just anecdotal comments and they could be wrong because it is against stated policy. I wouldn’t count on it, but if it does happen it would appear to be within the same dept. </p>
<p>@lindyk8 if that’s true, UCLA would be very different than the other ucs and I think that’s pretty dumb. People at ucsd can change into bioengineering, which at ucsd is like top 5 in the nation, if they’re qualified and that’s the most impacted major you could possibly choose.</p>
<p>Well I do know that compared to UCB, as an example, the engineering dept is small at UCLA. But now that you bring up engineering that is the one dept where you can list an alternate major when you apply. But I was told in an email by an advisor if you don’t get your first choice they rarely look at the second. That led me to believe you put the easier first (duh) and maybe the impacted or more difficult second, because it sounds like if you pass major 1, they will look at the alternate and might give you a shot.</p>
<p>Thus, at least you have a better shot of one major, because the harder one first could just get you flat-out rejected. </p>
<p>You can change your major as a freshman anywhere into engineering if you meet the GPA requirements, but not as a transfer. That defeats the purpose. Everyone would apply to Bulls*** studies and switch in as a transfer. The people that switch into BioE at UCSD where admitted as freshman, and I read they took 5 people and the avg GPA was 3.95 in the prereqs. </p>
<p>@csb111 is right. I was surprised that you said it was allowed at UCSD, so I just looked at a rundown for all the UCs. You cannot switch your major into bioengineering at UCSD if you are a transfer. Same with basically all the UCs in terms of selective majors. Of course, there may always be some very rare exception, but you shouldn’t count on it. </p>
<p>So it’s a freshman perk only. Thx for pointing that out csb11. </p>
<p><a href=“https://www.ccsf.edu/dam/Organizational_Assets/Department/Transfer_Center/Transfer_Basics/UC/TB%20UC%20Majors%20Change%20Major%20Policy.pdf”>https://www.ccsf.edu/dam/Organizational_Assets/Department/Transfer_Center/Transfer_Basics/UC/TB%20UC%20Majors%20Change%20Major%20Policy.pdf</a></p>
<p>@CSB111 well what if I decide I want to double major? Or if I decide to minor in something that’s impacted? I’m technically going to be a sophomore just with junior standing, so I’m going to be there for three years. I understand not letting actual third year transfers not switch into impacted majors but a sophomore from ucsd? I think some of these rules don’t take into account that people from schools with just as much prestige might transfer in. The only reason I could think of that I didn’t get into ucla was one bad grade in chemistry I has because the teacher had a witch hunt against me and he didn’t know his sh**. All my other stats were on par or above their averages and I had all the ECs to go with it. Now I just sound like I’m venting lol anyways what’s an easy transferring science major that I can apply with and be able to finish the prereqs in one year with no upper division courses? </p>
<p>It’s not about age, it’s about units. If you get in, regardless of age, you will have junior standing. Transfers way older than you enter with junior standing. </p>
<p>No what I’m saying is that I’m going to be a sophomore with junior standing, so I’ll be there for three years, and thanks for the site, but under ucla it didn’t really talk about transfers changing majors </p>
<p>We told you the rules for UCLA. It might not be what you want to hear but it’s true. The link noted that you cannot switch into bioengineering at UCSD as a transfer, and was merely in reference to the comment @csb111 made about transfer limitations. </p>