<p>I am entering UIUC this fall, as major being general curriculum.</p>
<p>I currently have a question, how hard is it to get into engineering or business program by my junior year?</p>
<p>I am really worried, I really regret not applying as engineering or business </p>
<p>Am I screwed? Or is it possible if I work towards it?</p>
<p>For intercollege transfer information,go here (which will lead you to other pages): <a href="http://www2.uiuc.edu/providers/illiaac/ict.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www2.uiuc.edu/providers/illiaac/ict.htm</a>. Usual time to transfer is at end of sophomore year. It is easier for engineering than business -- some of the reasons: the engineering college has significantly more students than business and thus significantly more openings come junior year particularly since the college loses about 35% of the students who start as freshman by end of sophomore year (they either go home or transfer out). </p>
<p>For engineering, as long as there is space available, you can be an automatic admit to some of the programs as long as you have a minimum designated GPA for "approval" and have completed the usual math, chemistry, physics and computer science courses that typical freshman and sophomores in engineering take. See the following page for additional info: <a href="http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/Advising/transferguidelines.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/Advising/transferguidelines.html</a> </p>
<p>For business space is usually more limited and there are no automatic admits and a high GPA and completion of freshman/sophomore core courses is needed. Go here for further info: <a href="http://www.business.uiuc.edu/undrgrad/Prospective/ICT.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.business.uiuc.edu/undrgrad/Prospective/ICT.htm</a></p>
<p>thanks for your reply, drusba.
Are the required classes for engineering extremely difficult?
To be frank, I am not a smart person. -_-;
However, I really do have passion for engineering compared to other majors, (for various reasons...) and I'd really love to be in the college of engineering by my junior year.</p>
<p>Are there any factors that might help my career as being engineer student in UIUC?
Thanks.. :)</p>
<p>The typical required courses during the first two years for an engineering student, and thus the courses you will likely need to complete for a transfer, include two semesters of chemistry, 3 semesters of physics, 3 semesters of calculus, a writing course, and a computer science course. Are they hard? Depends on the student but be aware that those science and math courses are very often the ones that drive many would be engineering majors to flip to history or other majors in Arts & Sciences so they do not have to take another science or math course as long as they live. Moreover, the science and math professors generally do not apply a curve -- you get the grade that you score on your exams, e.g., the fact that everyone in the class scores 75 or lower on an exam does not mean the highest scorers will get an A, instead everyone will get C's or lower. In other words, you should not assume it will be easy to get the GPA that is needed for the transfer.</p>