UCLA vs UCSD vs ASU Barrett. Please help me choose!

ucbalumnus
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 21:46:50 +0000

sbdad12:

One issue that the UCs have is impacted (capped space) majors and classes, especially UCLA for psychology; I dont believe it is impacted at UCSD. That can turn a 4 year experience into a 5 year experience.

Capacity limitations do not generally cause students in the major to need extra quarters or semester to graduate, since the intention is to regulate the number of students in the major so that there is enough space for them in the classes. However, this results in some frosh/soph students not being able to get into their first choice major and having to choose a different one.

Note that some majors at ASU have admissions requirements higher than general admission to the school (presumably due to capacity limitations), although psychology is not one of them.