<p>I know that engineering programs are usually very competitive to get into as freshman. Does this level of difficulty (to transfer in) increase or decreae for the sophomore level? On one hand I think it'd be tough, because engineering is often competitive, but on the other hand maybe it's not so bad because usually schools lose a lot of their engineering students over the years? Obviously a lot of people don't stick with it after their first year.</p>
<p>Bump to the top.</p>
<p>(sorry, duplicate entry)</p>
<p>I know people who transferred into engineering. Many of the freshman engineering classes are the same as the science major classes, so they might transfer (calc, chem, phys). You may have an engineering class to make up, though.</p>
<p>You probably can check the freshman retention rate for the engineering program you are interested in.</p>
<p>Yes, I should be able to transfer most of my credits from my freshman year here.</p>
<p>Hmm, retention rate. Did a few Googles, nothing so far. It's for UPitt main.</p>
<p>My son is at Pitt, and I know some students who are transferring/have transferred into engineering. There is only one strictly engineering class and one seminar during freshman year, so you could probably make that up. As I recall, Pitt Engineering has around a 85-90% retention rate. There's probably around 400 students in the class, so they should have around 40 openings. (I'm speculating, of course.)</p>
<p>Here's a page on transferring into Pitt engineering:
<a href="http://www.engr.pitt.edu/freshman/transfers/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.engr.pitt.edu/freshman/transfers/index.html</a></p>
<p>Here's the freshman curriculum page:
<a href="http://www.engr.pitt.edu/freshman/academic/ic.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.engr.pitt.edu/freshman/academic/ic.html</a></p>
<p>PS - I think you will find Pitt more interesting than Grove City, but it is urban (although Pitt does let you walk on the grass! ;))</p>
<p>Thank you very much for the information!</p>
<p>Wow, 85-90%, huh? I read in the Pitt factbook that there are about 1900 engineering students, so maybe that works out to 500-600 per class for freshman/sophomore, and then a bit less for junior/senior. So we may be looking at 40-90 openings or so. Then again, we don't know if the amount of students they have now is the max or not, they have space for more.</p>
<p>I exceed their GPA requirement by a small amount (2.96), and all of my high school stuff is very good.</p>
<p>Here's another thing to consider, lkf725. It says on their site that currently about half of all engineering students are transfers. There are about 1900 engineering students, so that means about 950 transfers. I'm assuming that pretty much all transfers occur on the sophomore and junior levels, so wouldn't that mean they may admit 400 or so each year? Hmm...</p>
<p>I think the 1900 number must include grad students (25% grad, 75% undergrad). Also, the transfers numbers include transfers from other institutions, transfers from other Pitt majors, and engineering transfers from other Pitt campuses. I bet they would give you the specifics if you ask.</p>
<p>The 1900 is JUST undergrad, I got that from the 2005 factbook.</p>
<p>But yes, you're right, that includes transfers from everywhere. But I wonder how many applicants they get. Do you think they have enough mid- to high-3 GPA applicants that if you're less than that you're out of the running right off the bat?</p>