What do I do about my major and dream school?

Question

I swear, I had NO idea that UCLA didn't offer psychology bachelors degrees until now. :-(

But UCLA is my dream school and to go there I-obviously-have to change my major...but I want to do psych. I also, however, want to minor in music, and there is a school for that (I know there's a social sciences school, but there's no psychology field in that).

So...what do I do? :-/ I'm not transferring yet so I have time. I was thinking of talking to a counselor about this whole transferring journey by the way.

Answer 1

i heard that UC Berkeley had a good psychology program

Answer 2

whoa theres no psych degree! thats a little wierd. I thought that was like a default major for most schools?

If psychology is your dream career, I think you should probably change schools. If psych is not your dream career but UCLA is your dream school then change to a related feild. Do they have human development? speech therapy? Sociology?

Now, I don't know anything about UCLA.....but I do know that the psych program at Utah State University ROCKS!

www.usu.edu

Answer 3

It is the job of your Guidance Counselor to help you with these problems. He or she has lists of the colleges and universities that offer the courses you need and want. The best way to approach this is to make an appointment, then sit down and explain what you need. But first, you have to be clear in your own mind which is more important--the major field or the university.

Answer 4

I know it might be hard because its you dream school but if I were you i would transfer to another school.  Think about it for a minute you, to a psych and that is what you want to do for the rest of your life because you like it and just because your dream school that you are going to spend at most 5 year there you are going to change majors to something that you might not like.  There are plenty of good colleges out there.  If you really want to be at UCLA then what you can do is go to another college finish the psychology bachelors and return to UCLA to do your minor in music.  That way you would have your dream degree and had also been to your dream school.  

Another thing that you can do is take all your basics at UCLA and the transfer later to finish your major classes at another college.  That way you can have both also.