Applying into Peabody (HOD) with intent of studying A&S (Econ)

<p>My friend applied ED1 to the peabody school of education as an HOD major and I applied to the college of arts and sciences ED2 as an econ major, however we both want to study econ. I DEFFINETLY had a better application than him. He got in, I didn't. No hard feelings, but I just feel as if he worked the system and his strategy was better than mine. Good for him! Sometime I regret not doing what he did. Is it going to be easy / doable for him to switch into Econ? I know this is something that many people try to do.</p>

<p>trojaneagle,
After seeing some of your past posts about this, I seriously considered doing it myself to increase my chances! But what you don’t realize is, if you get accepted to Peabody, you have to apply for a transfer to A&S, and I believe that you can only apply for a transfer after 1 year of study in your current college. Undergraduates tend to switch between colleges a lot, and not everyone’s transfer is approved. What would happen if you were forced to study in the college that you didn’t originally want to go to?</p>

<p>Your friend should be able to switch, but considering that he will also have to apply to another college in Vanderbilt, he is running a risk of getting denied. It’s not like if you are accepted to Vanderbilt, you are totally in and you can go to any college you want there. You still have to apply to be accepted to the other college. However, considering your first two years of college you typically take general studies and then declare your major, I don’t think it should be a big issue.</p>

<p>When I was at a vandy info session the presenter said that transferring between colleges was very easy–that in fact, even if you were admitted to Peabody and you changed your mind before you get to campus you could decide to be in A&S or engineering. Don’t know if anyone has ever tested that though.</p>

<p>Damn this makes me feel bad that I didn’t know that. I put A&S as my primary school and Engineering as my secondary school, when I should have put Peabody as my secondary school. It makes me feel frustrated because I just don’t know if I would have been accepted that way. -_-</p>

<p>I’m curious if anyone has had any luck with this? If it is easy to transfer between schools, it must not be that much more easy to get into one school over the other if the administration see the whole student body at around the same level rather than in different education tiers?</p>

<p>More like the ED1 acceptance rate is something like double the ED2 acceptance rate</p>