<p>13579,</p>
<p>At UCLA and UCSD, your major will dictate the particular college/school you'll go to. For example, if you're an engineering major you'd go to HSSEAS (UCLA) or Jacobs school of engineering (UCSD). In both cases that particular school must accept you and the engineering schools have their own requirements for acceptance that may be more rigorous than the general school. Most majors however, will be in the College of Letter and Sciences (UCLA) or general school (UCSD). </p>
<p>At UCSD things are a bit more complicated in that one also selects (or gets assigned) one of 6 'colleges' within UCSD which define the GEs required and each have their own housing/dining (although one may use any of the dining halls even in other 'colleges'). However, any major may be taken through any of the 6 colleges and one actually attends classes all over campus including at other 'colleges'. The idea here is to have a particular college associated with particular GE philosphies and to attempt to provide a 'smaller' environment on what is otherwise a very large campus. I believe Oxford in England works in a similar way.</p>