<p>I'm just going to cut right to the chase...</p>
<p>I applied to the bioengineering program - didn't get it.</p>
<p>Alternate choice is now Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the college of LAS.</p>
<p>This concerns me because it's in the college of LAS not the college of Engineering. </p>
<p>Questions:
1) Am I missing out on "Engineering" opportunities such as scholarships, study abroad opportunities, internships etc... because i'm not in the college of engineering?</p>
<p>2) is it easier to transfer from LAS >> ENG, or ENG >> LAS, or does it not matter. I heard that it's harder to transfer into ENG. If that's the case, my counselor said I should be on the safe side and get into ENG so if I want to change my major I could "drop down" into LAS. If so, she said would call in to "tweak" my alternate choice so i'm in the college of engineering. Should I tweak it?</p>
<p>3) Any advice from a current UIUC student for an ENG student? (basically is it hard? :) )</p>
<p>Drusba has already commented on the fact that certain programs are located in LAS for historical reasons, but are in the College of Engineering for all practical purposes, and are administered from, and participate in Engineering College policies. ChemBio is one of those, but if Drusba could confirm, then you’d know for sure.</p>
<p>Chem E is officially LAS but for most purposes is part of engineering and is essentially considered as another department of the engineering college. As to engineering opportunities it is the same except for differences that exist among any of the engineering departments. As to scholarships, almost all of the engineering scholarships are specific to each department, meaning chem E has its own, mechanical E has its own, materials E has its own and thus being in one major will not qualify you for those in other majors. Study abroad opportunities are available to all students in an engineering major including chem E but again there are some where you have to have a particular engineering major to qualify. As to internships or coops those are very often major specifc, e.g., someone looking for a chem E major is not going to seek an aerospace E major and vice versa, but as far as overall opportunity you will have same as anyone else in engineering. Despite the LAS/Eng distinction, transfer from Chem E to other engineering or other engineering to Chem E is essentially treated as inter-departmental rather than inter-college transfer and not real difficult although never assume extremely easy (if you blow first year and have crud grades another engineering department is not likely to take you regardless what other engineering department you are coming from). </p>
<p>Also note that outside of chem E it is not overly difficult to transfer from LAS to ENG as long as you have minumum GPA to do so (usually a 3.0 or a little higher) and meet course requirements for transfer.</p>