What is an impacted major and how does it affect my chances of getting into engineering?
Due to high demand, two engineering majors below at the Jacobs School have been designated as oversubscribed. • Bioengineering (Bioengineering Department) • Bioengineering Biotechnology (Bioengineering Department) Admitted UC San Diego freshmen that have applied to an oversubscribed major will be further evaluated by the Jacobs School Dean’s Office according to the Comprehensive Review score that is determined by the UC San Diego Office of Admissions and Relations with Schools. The Bioengineering Department which has oversubscribed majors set its own internal comprehensive review cutoff score in accordance with the available seats they have for entering freshmen. Students who meet the departmental comprehensive review cutoff are directly admitted to the oversubscribed major. Students who do not meet the departmental oversubscribed major comprehensive review cutoff are placed into the alternate major they selected on the UC Undergraduate Application, provided the alternate is not oversu
Due to high demand, some engineering majors at the Jacobs School have been designated as oversubscribed/impacted. They are: Bioengineering Department (BENG) • Bioengineering • Bioengineering Biotechnology Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) • Mechanical Engineering (Effective Fall 2009 for freshmen. Effective Fall 2011 for transfers) • Aerospace Engineering (Effective Fall 2009 for freshmen. Effective Fall 2011 for transfers) Admitted freshmen that have applied to an oversubscribed major will be further evaluated by the Office of Admissions and Relations with Schools for admission to the major. Acceptance will be granted to the maximum number of students in each of these impacted major programs. Students who are not admitted to the oversubscribed major are placed into the alternate major they selected on the UC Undergraduate Application, provided the alternate is not oversubscribed. We highly recommend that freshman applicants list a non-oversubscribed open major as their altern
