<p>Although I was planning on being an engineering major in college when I was applying out of high school, I ended up at a liberal-arts college (mostly because I liked it a lot more than the engineering schools I got into), where I'm now a freshman angling for a physics major. However, I'm trying to keep myself as competitive as possible for a transfer to an engineering school this spring in case I change my mind and decide I want to do engineering undergraduate instead of in graduate school.</p>
<p>With that said, I'm taking intense year-long sequences of math, physics, and classics. The norm in my college is to take three or four classes at a time, and I'm wondering if only having those three until December would make me a weak transfer applicant. (I'm probably dropping my fourth class, mathematical economics, because thanks to starting an engineering club, playing sports, music, and more, I really don't have time for everything.) And, would it be expected to have a third technical class on top of math and physics to even consider applying to competitive engineering schools? </p>
<p>And how would experimental physics research with professors stack up to a student-run (hands-on, making stuff) engineering club in terms of adding to a transfer application? I like the idea of doing both just because they both look like fun, but I'm not sure if I'll have the time.</p>
<p>If anyone has any answers, I'd really appreciate input quickly, since I have to make some decisions over the next day; I'm only posted now since only now has my class/club situation cleared up somewhat.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help.</p>