<p>My daughter was admitted to UD today and found out via the portal. She was not admitted to her first choice major of chemistry, but to her second choice major. How difficult would it be to change majors to chemistry once she is there? Is there a limit to how many chem majors and will there be a GPA requirement to change? Any info is appreciated.</p>
<p>Mine did not get into Chemical Engineering. Probably won’t go if there’s no chance of transferring. I can’t find any info on website about how hard it is to transfer in later.</p>
<p>Answering my own question, they emailed me and said possible to switch from undeclared engineering to chemical engineering freshman year if you get good grades.</p>
<p>Do you know if they said anything about Chemistry to Chemical Engineering? And the likelihood of actually accomplishing this feat?</p>
<p>Email the address on the portal near edit major I think <a href=“mailto:change-major@udel.edu”>change-major@udel.edu</a> and ask to change to undecided engineering they will let you know in a week or so before you have to commit. then enter as an undecided engineer and work really hard and get into chem E</p>
<p>They won’t let me click “Update” on the “My Majors” part on the right, and I don’t want to email an email that you’re not 100% sure about, so I’ll check the portal tomorrow and see if it will work. But if I request to change to undecided engineering, but they don’t accept me for that, would I lose my acceptance for Chemistry?</p>
<p>This happened to my D last year. I was really upset because I knew it was going to be a tough first year for her and the chances of her grading in to the first choice was going to be hard. You should be able to see stats on this somewhere on the UD website. I tried to convince her to switch to another school where she knew she had her major (or any major she chose) but she loved UD so much she wouldn’t listen to anything about any other school. I accepted her choice.</p>
<p>My own view is if the reason your son or daughter didn’t get the major is grade related, really think hard about this because it won’t be easy to grade in and the whole point of going to school is a major/job/career. In my D’s case it was 3.2 just to be eligible to get into her first choice and we knew not all that were eligible were accepted. </p>
<p>However, this has a happy ending. A few days before HS graduation, she emailed admissions and asked if she could be reconsidered for admission to her major. She did well on the math placement test. The day after graduation she received an email saying she got in to her major! That was after wait list was done and everyone decided where they were going. </p>
<p>Totally changed my feeling for the school because once you are in the program, you have to be booted out of the University to lose the major – probation won’t get you booted out of the major. And of course she now barely has a 2.0 after first semester so grading in would have been out of the question – much better this semester – so far. And she totally loves the school. Needs to work hard but that’s a good thing.</p>