<p>UCLA gets record number of applicants:</p>
<p>[Applications</a> for fall 2011 hit record level at UCLA / UCLA Today](<a href=“http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applications-for-fall-2011-hit-191026.aspx]Applications”>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applications-for-fall-2011-hit-191026.aspx)</p>
<p>Phew, that sucks.</p>
<p>Omg that really sucks D: I hope they uphold TAG at least!</p>
<p>They just made over 4 million dollars from applications</p>
<p>6.4% increase?! O_o</p>
<p>■■■!!!</p>
<p>Thank god for non impacted majors. My major only had 158 applicants last year, and they took 82 of them. WOO.</p>
<p>■■■ history is impacted there…if i get accepted im still only going to be a pre-history major.
…but its nothing like comm majors loolll</p>
<p>After reading the post from natjan, I became curious as to see how my major, Electrical Engineering - 3.80 avg. gpa & ~38% admit rate (very competitive, but there are quite a few more competitve ones) compared with other majors at UCLA.</p>
<p>What I came across blew my mind! Who says you can’t get into UCLA with a sub 3.0 gpa???. I suppose if your only aim is to get into UCLA at all costs 
, one needs to apply to Geophysics and Space Physics (L&S). The average admitted gpa for this major was 2.92 and it had a whopping 50% admit rate!!! (Of course, this does not tell the whole story. 2 people applied and 1 was accepted 
)</p>
<p>[Profile</a> of Admitted Transfer Students by Major, Fall 2010 - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof10_mjr.htm]Profile”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/Adm_tr/Tr_Prof10_mjr.htm)</p>
<p>Geophysics and Space Physics is an extraordinarily difficult major requiring upper division courses in Mathematics, Physics, Geology and Astronomy&Astrophysics. There is a shortage of geophysicists but few students major in it because it is so challenging. A GPA of 2.92 in Geophysics and Space Physics probably represents a greater intellectual achievement than a GPA of 4.0 in Economics, Communications or just about any other more popular major.</p>
<p>anybody has something similar to this for UCB?</p>
<p>@victor5555 ucla is all about your major that’s how u get accepted, by major. if your major isn’t impacted then it is very much possible to get in with a 2.8.</p>
<p>I couldn’t find anything along these lines for UCB, though I looked desperately. I used Statfinder but I couldn’t get the gpa breakdown per major that I was looking for.</p>
<p>I am a Women’s Studies major so I have the upper and lower hand.
The upper is that the average GPA applied last year was 3.34 and admittance was 3.5, and that is exactly where I fall, 3.5. Also hardly any applicants out of the tens of thousands of applicants, which a high acceptance rate amongst them.
The lower is that I have no prerequisite classes that can be fulfilled for the major, which means taking random classes at CC that will boost my GPA. I am going to be up to my ears in classes when I transfer to UCLA. Yea just kidding! I hooooooooooooooppppppppppeeeeeeeee.</p>
<p>This makes me a sad panda, I already figured I’d have to file an appeal to get a shot at UCLA because of my bizzare-o circumstances, this’ll just make it harder.</p>
<p>Sort of off topic, but how do you categorize a major as impacted? Is there a certain percentage (like >5%) of total applicants that the major has to be, or are certain majors always “impacted”? </p>
<p>Anyway, UCLA is my first choice UC and my major is political science, which does have a lot of applicants, so it’s scary to have to wait to see how this all plays out. :(</p>
<p>■■■ but I applied for a non-impacted major, so I hope that helps. 
</p>
<p>But UC’s are accepting more freshmen OOS students. Does that apply to transfers? Or not so much since CCC transfers get priority anyway?</p>
<p>Go Bears! Go Bruins! Go Aggies! Go Slugs!
<em>Random</em></p>
<p>an impacted major are the majors that get more applicants then the department can accept.</p>
<p>^oh okay, thanks uclakid!</p>