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Hello all... Well, I got accepted into everywhere I applied (UCLA, UCSC, and Davis) except for Berkeley. That was my no. 1 choice, but I guess they weren't feeling it. As of right now I am in the pre History major in UCLA, and I was wondering about any other people that changed their majors after they transferred, or are considering changing their majors. I read what UCLA has to say about changing majors, and that I should contact the department and ask during orientation.

My change is very drastic, I want to go into Computer Science, and that involves a ****ton of math/physics classes. I am good at math, but it just seems like a heavy workload to try and get caught up. I am interested in doing web dev (already have a few languages down) stuff later, and most internships/jobs require a CS degree. I know that degrees don't mean much when compared to relevant experience, but I figured it would help my jump start my career and look good on my resume. I plan on taking some math that cover the CS requisites classes during summer at my CC just to see where this all goes. I don't know UCLA's policy about switching majors that are in different schools (L&S into Engineering).

Basically what I am asking is, anyone in the same boat, or have already done this (doesn't need to be the specific majors, just anyone that switched different schools)? I'm really anxious about all of this, since it's a huge move for me.

TrEbOr

sorry to break this down to you, you will not be able to change to Computer Science as a transfer, pretty much 100% certain about this. It's not easy for students to just change majors within College of Letters and Science by itself, but to change schools? That's impossible. You would have a hard time just to finish the major reqs in 3 years.

crazykumar

u should try but its gonna take 1.5 years to get all those prereqs done

Torrancecali

also, you have to consider the unit cap... if you go over the unit cap you can't even graduate!

Remmert

To add to this question...

I was accepted to UC Berkeley as a Peace and Conflict Studies major but I want to switch to Political Science. Is this possible??

Torrancecali

you need to finish all the lower divison course to swtich it! by end of fall semester!

simplycyn

well, it depends on the school. ucla does not allow backdoor major switch into impacted majors like poli sci.

in berkeley we are not admitted to majors, we have to petition before we can declare a major; but i don't know if they'll allow you to switch seeing as you were admitted based on the stuff you had as a peace & conflict studies major.

i don't intend this to come off as a rude question, but why did you apply as a P&CS major and not poli sci?