UCLA impacted majors

[Anonymous]

UCLA has gotten ridiculous to get into for out of staters, hope shes a strong student.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Just wondering what impacted major means in relation to how competitive it is to declare what you want for a major. I think you have to be admitted and take classes and then not until later when you are already a student "apply" for a major. This is my understanding from reading the website. So if you want to be an English or Economics major do you have to be carrying a super high gpa to even consider these majors? I just never thought declaring one of these majors would be a difficult process.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please stay out of California, particularly if you are going to complain about a State University system that your highly-taxed, hard-earned dollars did not support.

California is sending recruiter and flyers to our kids. They WANT these OOS dollars to keep afloat.

They may certainly want your application dollars, but best of luck getting admitted to Berkeley or UCLA from out-of-state.

DC's school sent 3 to Berkeley last year...and a few to the other UC's. They want the actual tuition money from OOS

Only three students from a good local school? Again, good luck. And yes, the in-state students are happy for the advantage in admissions as well as the lower tution. Also, I suppose California's state universities far surpass anything we have locally, so I do not blame you for supplying.

[Anonymous]

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Only three students from a good local school? Again, good luck. And yes, the in-state students are happy for the advantage in admissions as well as the lower tution. Also, I suppose California's state universities far surpass anything we have locally, so I do not blame you for supplying.

I didn't say it was a 'good' school...plus there are 49 other states, and private schools to boot. I hoe OP looks at the options out there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Just wondering what impacted major means in relation to how competitive it is to declare what you want for a major. I think you have to be admitted and take classes and then not until later when you are already a student "apply" for a major. This is my understanding from reading the website. So if you want to be an English or Economics major do you have to be carrying a super high gpa to even consider these majors? I just never thought declaring one of these majors would be a difficult process.

The problem arises because your child needs to start in the intro courses for their major. Many of those courses also qualify for the mandatory courses needed to graduate so everyone is trying to get into English 101, Psych 101, etc. If you can't get in as a freshman (traditionally freshmen get last choice) then you end up starting the early courses of your major too late and you wind up like a relative of mine did taking 5 years at USC to get through his major. It's common at a lot of state school (USC is private but has the same problem). Va Tech has sought to deal with this problem by having applicants apply to one of 8 or 9 colleges because four of the majors are very "hot". That way if you are accepted as an "engineering" major, you get to start in immediately witih Engineering 101. But you must apply as a an Engineering student, with one other college (there is an "undecided" one) as a second choice. From what I've read here, if you want engineering but get "undecided" then you may not get into Engineering 101 and may have difficulty catching up later.

[Anonymous]

The UC website has a list of all impacted majors by campus