does choice of major affect chance of acceptance?

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<p>For UCs, it depends on the campus.</p>

<p>For example, at the Berkeley campus, each division (L&S, CoE, CoC, CED, CNR) may have a different threshold for admissions. Within the CoE (College of Engineering), each major may have a different threshold for admissions. L&S does not have different thresholds by major, and all L&S frosh enter undeclared, but some majors are enrolled to capacity and require a higher than 2.0 GPA in prerequisites to declare.</p>

<p>You can expect that if a division is more competitive in frosh admissions, changing into it after enrolling will be difficult, requiring a high GPA to do so.</p>

<p>Other UC campuses and other university may handle it differently.</p>

<p>For example, San Jose State (a CSU) gives each major its own admission threshold:
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