<p>Hi! I been doing my UC application and it seems I come to a few problem along the way. Basically my major is Mechanical Engineering which is a IMPACTED MAJOR at UCSD. I don't have a lot of hope to getting this of this major since my GPA is not very high. </p>
<p>So I just wanted to know:</p>
<p>Should I choose both of my major and alternate major to IMPACTED MAJORS so that if I am not going to get in either of the major they would declared me as Undeclared major so I would have better chance getting in my impacted major later on. </p>
<p>Or select a NON-IMPACTED Major so I would get in and then switch to IMPACTED MAJOR later.</p>
<p>I am not sure which one should I choose?</p>
<p>Any advice would be helpful! Thanks!</p>
<p>I dont think they will switch you to undeclared if you were rejected from both your majors. (I might be wrong) If anything, just put mechE as your 1st major and a non-impacted major as your second…</p>
<p>Assuming you want Warren being an engineer, i suggest you put a non-impacted engineering major over putting undeclared. I’m assuming it’ll raise your chances of being picked into Warren.</p>
<p>If there is even a little part of you that wants to do an impacted major, apply to that major. The odds are heavily against you that you get into it during college, and applying to it now won’t in any way affect your admission chances.</p>
<p>Seriously, do it. You have absolutely nothing to lose.</p>
<p>@AndrewL</p>
<p>I VERY seriously doubt that.</p>
<p>@Ktran13</p>
<p>First off, no matter what major you pick, it won’t change your chances at admission into UCSD. So that being said, it’s definitely in your best interest to put down mechanical engineering as your first choice. For your alternate major, I don’t see how it would matter too much either way. If you pick another impacted major, they will put you as undeclared if you don’t get in to either of them, but, you could then always immediately switch into a non-impacted major. Either way for your alternate major will work.</p>
<p>I know exactly what to say to this, since I selected two impacted majors on my application, and got accepted undeclared instead, so I asked a lot of questions about the process. There are two major selections, if I were you I would put Mechanical Engineering as your first choice, and a non impacted major as your second choice.
This way they see if they’ll let you into the mechanical engineering program first, but then put you in your second choice if not. Since my second choice was also impacted they let me in undeclared-- what majors you chose has no effect on your admission. </p>
<p>Good luck! I hope you get in Mechanical Engineering the first round, go for good SAT II scores, it’s proving to be a pain and a lot of stress trying get good grades so I can transfer in later. 
By the way…when I got in undeclared I switched to a non-impacted engineering major right away, my reasoning was:
- I hated telling people I was undeclared as I know what I want to do.
- It might be better if I’m already in that department when trying to transfer later; I’m not sure if this will really help or not, but it seemed best to me at the time. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for inputs.</p>
<p>For all of those who say I should put down Mechanical Engineering as my first choice. That is what I gonna do since it probably the only major that suits me the most so of course I want to select Mechanical Engineering as my first choice. </p>
<p>What I trying to ask here is how hard for each of these categories to change into Mechanical Engineering if I don’t get in Mechanical Engineering.</p>
<p>Undeclared to Impacted Major or Non-impacted (also engineering) to Impacted Major.</p>
<p>Those scenarios are only happen if I don’t get my first choice.</p>
<p>First choice: Mechanical Engineering; Alternative: Aerospace Engineering (impacted, pretty close to Mechanical)
Second choice: Mechanical Engineering; Alternative: Engineering Science(non impacted, under same department, i try not to choose this because it doesn’t sound very good at all)</p>
<p>@figuresk8ting, I am actually a transfer student, not HS senior.</p>