<p>Are there any UIUC students on here willing to chat with me? preferably engineering or physics majors. I have many questions which i would love to have answered, as I have decided to go to UIUC. If your interested tell me and we can exchange emails. I tried finding a student chat sessions on UIUC website but found none.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I’d love to chat. I’m the new Engineering Council EIB Director so pretty much I’m the student in charge of high school recruitment/prospective student affairs. I’ll PM you my email.</p>
<p>sure, im an electrical engineering student at uiuc.</p>
<p>I’m not going to be an engineering major but I was going to be for the longest time. I’m more into straight Bio now. Anyway… I just accepted my admission offer today for the class of 2013. I’m so excited! But I would love to get to know other student going here next year!</p>
<p>BlueMoonGirl, did you ever check out Bioengineering, Biological Engineering (Agricultural and Biological Engineering dept), Materials Science (biomaterials), Engineering Mechanics (biomechanics), or Nuclear/Plasma/Radiological Engineering (medical concentration)? </p>
<p>I only know of all these because my brother is pre-med and thinking of doing some sort of engineering undergrad</p>
<p>I will also appreciate someone in engineering department to chat with me.
I got accepted as transfer, and I’m pretty certain I’ll go, but I want more ideas of things like dorm, meal plan, stuff like that</p>
<p>Yeah, and those are still some of my options that are open. I am only majored in bio right now but was wondering if I got to Illinois in the fall and decided I wanted to do engineering again in one of these fields, would it be too dificult to switch majors? If I had to guess I would think first semester classes for a bio major and a bioengineering major would be similar, no? But as of right now I was thinking of eventually going into medicine either a general doctor, optometrist, pharmacist or genetic something. </p>
<p>(I should have been more specific earlier, I ment more physical based engineering like civil, industrial, aroespace, etc. I used to want to do these but found out I really don’t like physics and calculus!)</p>
<p>Hey BlueMoonGirl, switching into engineering is not difficult with a few caveats.</p>
<p>1) You have to maintain good grades in your major.
2) I believe you must take certain courses in order to transfer (ex. math, etc.) I’m sure the list is online somewhere.
3) BioEngineering and Mechanical Engineering are full, so those are not available transfer majors.</p>
<p>Also, all engineering majors take physics and calculus, so even a BioE takes primarily the same courses (physics, calculus, statics/mechanics, etc.) as civils, industrials, mechanicals, etc. for the ~2 years.</p>
<p>regza, send me a msg if you want, i also transferred here</p>
<p>BlueMoonGirl, as the poster above stated, you would have to take some physics and math courses before you transferred in. I believe MCB and IB majors take calc 1 anyways, so you would have to take Calc 2 and 3, and possibly diff eq, but that depends on what engineering you go into (there are multiple diff eq classes here at UIUC). if your gpa is good, there shouldnt be a problem getting in. </p>
<p>And just to clarify, Engineering Mechanics is NOT the same as Mechanical Engineering, many people confuse those two together. And yes, it is extremely difficult to get into Mechanical Engineering (3.7’s have a hard time), so I would consider that closed. </p>
<p>Engineering Mechanics however is much easier to get into. Bioengineering only accepts freshman, but Nuclear and Electrical have formal Bioengineering concentrations (BioE actually used to be a part of the EE department), and others, as stated in my previous post, have similar concentrations. Nuclear is also one of the easier engineering programs to transfer into, and they have pretty small class sizes, which is another thing to consider if you like small classes. </p>
<p>A good idea is to go to courses.uiuc.edu and find programs that seem interesting, and see what type of classes youll be taking the first two years in these programs, and try to stick with that. most of them will have:</p>
<p>PHY 211
PHY 212
PHY 213 and/or 214, depends on program
chem 1
chem 2
calc 1
calc 2
calc 3
diff eq isnt needed to transfer in, but if you can take it before you do, then why not, just check what diff eq your program needs</p>
<p>and you probably will take a few bio classes of course.</p>
<p>Yeah I’ll probably stay as a biology major. AP Bio was my favorite subject in highschool. It came so naturally for me, whereas AP calc was one of my hardest classes and therefore my LEAST favorite subject. I’m sure I will have to take some calc and physics but the less I can take the better. 
I guess this means engineering really wouldn’t be for me, but thanks so much for the usefull info!</p>