<p>I know here at UCLA , the elc (top 9% of class) doesn’t guarantee you admission, but it DOES help.</p>
<p>Would it still help regardless of your major? Ex: engineering?</p>
<p>Hard to say. ELC used to matter more when it was, IIRC, top 4%.</p>
<p>Now that it is the top 9% it doesn’t seem like the ELC designation is significant unless you are looking for guaranteed admission to Merced or perhaps Riverside.</p>
<p>Naw, I doubt ELC has any relation to what major you choose. All I know is College of Engineering is looked at differently than say Letters & Science. (for example, you have to be strong in math if you’re going for eng.)</p>
<p>On paper UCLA states ELC is an admission evaluation criteria, but I heard from a UCLA reader who stated that readers are instructed to disregard ELC when evaluating freshman applications.</p>