<p>Can you go undeclared then switch into an impacted major right away at a UC? By right away, i mean freshman year once you enter, you switch into impacted.</p>
<p>There are GPA requirements and also specific gpa needed for certain classes to qualify for some impacted majors iirc</p>
<p>When you say “freshman year” do you mean entering from high school? If so, then you don’t really have to worry about impacted majors. Even though you apply under a major, it’s basically regarded as undeclared until you actually declare your major. To do this you need to take requisite courses for the major and maintain some type of GPA.
Ex: You apply to ucla as undeclared social sciences or whatnot. If you want to get into business econ, you take the requisite courses that the major asks for and then you go to the department to declare. If you maintain the listed gpa, then you should be able to get in. Some majors are completely different and you actually have to apply (Haas for example), but otherwise most majors go through that process I listed earlier.</p>
<p>so there are no restrictions to picking an easy major to get admitted into like women studies and get in with like a 3.2 to ucla then switch majors like to bio?</p>
<p>^^ Not quite lol…</p>
<p>For UCLA Psychology, an impacted major there, one cannot just apply with say Women’s Studies or Philosophy (easy non-impacted majors to get into) and then switch into Psych. At UCLA, I know that one must enter directly into the major as a transfer and cannot switch into an impacted major.</p>
<p>You say you’re a freshman…which is odd for being in this forum, but if you stated in your app that you want Women’s Studies, or something like that and get in, then you should be able to “switch” into an impacted major because you NEVER declared a major in the first place on campus. Thus, if you’re a freshman, you’re good. If you’re a transfer, forget about switching into an impacted major at UCLA. Oddly enough, it’s easier at UCB…other than like Haas and Engineering, of course.</p>
<p>i’m a sophomore. im just regretting my stupid mistake by picking an impacted major my freshman year. now, im stuck at a horrible college trying to transfer out. all because i didnt pick an easy major when i applied two years ago.</p>
<p>You should be able to transfer out. Have you already applied to schools or any of the UC’s? I’m sort of confused as to where you are in this whole process. I would suggest going to a CCC for the remaninder of your lower-division units and then transfer (with a much better shot) to UCLA or wherever you’d like to go. You can also apply into any major you want. It’s all a matter of getting in at that point.</p>
<p>I’m guessing you are a soph at a 4 year already then? If so, I still don’t think you got the whole grasp of applying to a UC from hs. </p>
<p>“all because i didnt pick an easy major when i applied two years ago.”</p>
<p>When you are in HS, you can pick ANY major when you are applying to a UC and it doesn’t harm your chances. It doesn’t matter if you apply to Berkeley as Pre-Business or Folklore Studies. One might be an impacted major, but you are NOT ENTERED into that major as a freshman because you have to declare later on. It’s literally just a way for the UC to classify you.</p>
<p>If you are a TRANSFER, then this is a whole different story. Then you essentially apply to a UC under your actual major and then you declare it within a semester. That’s when the whole impacted major is mixed into the formula.
If you didn’t get in as a freshman, it’s not because you picked a difficult major, it’s because they didn’t think you deserved admission.</p>
<p>It’s possible but if you want to switch to a life science major, you’re out of luck because they won’t let you (atleast for UCLA)</p>
<p>Yes you can, even if you’re a transfer. I know plenty of people who switched into impacted majors after transfer. There are a few departments where you can’t do this like poly sci, communications, engineering…etc. But overall it’s fairly easy if the major is not crazy over impacted. It’s especially easy if you’re transferring within the same department.</p>
<p>midnight golfer answered my question completely. only thing let for me to ponder about is the credibility of his statements… is what he said true?</p>
<p>Yes what he said is true if you want it to be true. What is your definition of true? Is it something that’s not false? Well then that can’t be the case because it would be a non-false, not a true.</p>
<p>Midnightgolfer is spot on. Also, vintij…nice lol.</p>
<p>as freshman, switching ur “declared” major is no problem, I had a friend switch from women’s studies to engineering at UCI, before he even started there, he called two weeks after he got his acceptance letter and they let him. If only i had known u could do that in HS…w/e im a better person for having gone to a CC</p>
<p>That’s the thing, it doesn’t matter what major you apply as when you’re a freshman. You’re still always going to be undeclared. I could have applied as Medieval Studies, but the UC will not give me any leniency towards someone who applied as econ. </p>
<p>The first day you start a UC as a freshman, your major will be Undeclared-YourMajorHere. The mere fact you have the word “undeclared” there means you can switch to anything your heart desires (different story for transfers). I could have started as Undeclared-Medieval Studies and moved it to Undeclared-Nuclear Engineering (some UC’s might just group you by their academic colleges). Then when you actually want to DECLARE, you go to that department in your UC and fill out a form with one of the advisors there. This form lists what major req’s you have completed and sometimes a basic plan of future classes. Once you finish this and they do a check on your academic record to see if you maintained a certain GPA for your major’s classes, your major in your student portal is changed and the “Undeclared” portion is removed from your major’s title.</p>
<p>well anyway, since its so easy to switch… the point you can learn from this is to apply as an easy major like women studies your freshman year then switch to the major you want right? Cause ucla probably will admit a freshman that is pursuing women studies with a 3.2 hs gpa over a 3.7 hs gpa person who is studying biology right?</p>
<p>UCLA doesn’t care what your major is when you apply from HS. They just look at your GPA, SATs, ECs and essay. If you are in HS, there is no major-loophole that lets you get in over anyone. So there is no point for a bio student to apply as women studies because you can’t beat the system. </p>
<p>You got it completely confused with transfer students. That’s when the UCs actually place an emphasis on your intended major. Of course if you want to get in an impacted major then you could try to go around that and apply to an “easier” major, but there’s always a big risk in that. The UCs aren’t stupid, they perfectly know students will try these things. Stop thinking you can always outsmart them.</p>
<p>merman107, when you apply from high school it does NOT matter what major you put down. If you put down women’s studies instead of bio it makes no difference because regardless you are still undeclared. However, if it makes you feel like a stronger applicant, you may as well apply from high school in women’s studies. Although, I know you’re not in high school, so I don’t know how your question is relevant.</p>
<p>As a transfer student apply into the major you intend to major in…especially for UCLA. They will not let you switch into an impacted major like bio. If you want to pull the easy-in backdoor method when it comes to majors, make sure that the university you want to go to will allow you to switch majors once you arrive on campus.</p>
<p>You don’t switch them when you arrive emilsinclaire, you wait a quarter. It’s not even possible to switch outright because there’s a process you go through that takes time, like petitioning to the department one applies to for instance. Yes adcoms know that people try the backdoor method, which is why it’s harder to switch from certain majors to specific other majors that fall in a particular category. The argument if for particularity, not for one all encompassing method of doing things correctly. Each position particular to the petition, or situation solidifying the dictations of policies stating who can and can’t switch majors during concurrent enrollment, yields particularly different results.</p>
<p>that golfer dude answer this question already. geeeeeez are people that stupid!? no wonder our HS education sucks.</p>