Welcome new Tritons! Please use this megathread to discuss your acceptance and ask any questions you may have.

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A few useful links:

Please be aware stuff at UCSD can change fast, namely Sixth College has a brand new location with a bunch of new dining halls, transfers have different housing, Seventh College is brand new where transfers used to be, and Eighth College is now under construction. This is all stuff that happened in the last year! Therefore, some stuff may not be entirely up to date quite yet.

People who want to switch into CS from another major (IF YOU GOT IN UNDECLARED BUT WANT CS):

Computer science has a lottery based major change process. You need at least a 3.3 in a set of screening courses to enter the lottery. More details can be found on the CSE Capped Major Webpage.

Being admitted undeclared basically means you were accepted to UCSD, but the CSE department rejected your application.

If you are set on UCSD, the Computing Paths page lists other computing related majors (but keep in mind these are NOT CS)

CE is weird, CSE CE and ECE CE are the exact same pretty much (only the advisors are different), but ECE CE is subject to the ECE capped major system (which is not a lottery but requires a higher GPA) while CSE CE is subject to the lottery.