Hi, I will be coming to ucla as freshman chem eng. does anyone know whether psychology and classic metrology and statistics taken at community college while I was at HS can apply toward GE in Samueli or university requirement?
@dennisy I answered this to you on the 2021 forum but since you are a freshman admit all GEs must be taken at Ucla. There are only 5 for engineering. And are GPA boosters. The university requirements are us history and English which are fulfilled with AP exams.
@10s4life My son is admitted to the aerospace engineering major but he may want to change to CS major. So we assume to make it happen, he will need to take the CS classes while taking his aerospace major courses. Will this type of workload be possible? He have a lot of APs. That may help a little.
@ymchn To stay on track for aero e they take Chem with physics and math. CS majors and EE majors take CS instead. It will be very difficult to do both so we will need to commit to “pretending” to be a CS major when making his schedule. That’s the risk you’ll take. Current engineering students can switch once but to switch to CS he needs a B average in CS31,32,33 and a great GPA overall which is tough. Also APs don’t help for enginerring except for Calc and English. Everything else is empty units. What I would do is stay in aero e. UCLA aero e is phenomenal with amazing recruiting because of its so cal location. And have your son choose CS for his tech breadth option. Every student picks a tech breadth in another engineering major. The CS tech breadth will have him take CS 31, 32, and 33. I just finished CS32 and along with 31 the professors say is all you need to work as a software engineer. Everything else afterwards is theory you don’t need to work. My tech breadth is tech management which is business oriented. Hope this helps.
@10s4life Thank you so much. Will the students be able to take tech breadth starting from the first quarter?
@ymchn No we take take breadths near the end because there are so many pre reqs to get out of the way before the major. Like Chem physics and math and physics lab. It’s just so hard to switch to CS that it’s likely he will try to switch and not be able to. Then he’s super behind for aero e and won’t get out in time. CS jobs need skills not the degree. If he has an engineering degree and his transcripts have the CS classes that show he can do the job he will be fine.
@10s4life i have umich lsa honors for CS and UCLA engg for CS. Pl help me if an engg degree is better than a LSA degree .
@USUG21 CS is CS. It will be in different colleges in certain schools. But at UCLA it’s a BS in CS so should be the same. Both are great schools you can’t go wrong with either.