political science at ucla

Malishka31
Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:22:11 +0000

Dannylee- UCLA makes major changes difficult for transfers, not for freshman however. Freshman can explore all the majors they want, transfers DO get limited by what assist says.

As assist now states, that as of 2009 you must get accepted into PoliSci, before hand assist never said that and beforehand it was not an issue to get into PoliSci if you came in as another major. But now they are telling you it will be an issue. Same thing that the Econ department says- you must be accepted into the major and no changes are allowed post acceptance. However, even with the econ department, you can still switch if you make a good case and bother lots of people and have good grades.

Point being that since PoliSci now has the assist page that says they will not accept you post transfer into another department and it never had that before that everyone should be really careful with applying for another major in hopes of getting into poli sci because you can and might be denied.

However if you apply to another major with no intent of finding a backdoor into poli sci and then find yourself desiring to major in polisci you may be approved for the change of major pending some requirements the Poliscie department will have- usually they want your GPA and preqs to be done at the time that you applied- meaning that in most cases to challenge what is noted on assist post transfer they want you to have a strong enough app at the time of transfer that they would have taken you had you applied directly into that department.

It is VERY important that non of you poli sci hopefuls think it is ok to apply as Basketweaving and then just change into POLI SCI, because as of Fall 2009 it will not be a breeze, however it should not be impossible either.