<p>I heard that Bowdoin offers a 3-2 engineering program with Stanford. Is this true? this seems like an amazing opportunity.</p>
<p>Hi, there are some amazing programs, but I don’t think with Stanford…they have a great program with Dartmouth where you spend one year away (junior year if I understand correctly), then come back for Senior year, returning to Dartmouth in the fifth year. I think they have more traditional 3-2 programs with CalTech, Columbia, and UMaine. Check out the schools website for more info.</p>
<p>Really? that’s a shame
it says on the Bowdoin website though
“Recently a physics major was accepted in the Stanford 3-2 program, for example, where he did very well.”
[Columbia</a> University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and with the California Institute of Technology (Bowdoin - Physics and Astronomy)](<a href=“http://www.bowdoin.edu/physics/engineering/columbia-caltech.shtml]Columbia”>http://www.bowdoin.edu/physics/engineering/columbia-caltech.shtml)</p>
<p>What they are telling you, is that you can create a 3-2 program almost anywhere if you want to take the lead. The way I read it is that you can apply to transfer to another school for a 3-2 program, the same way you might transfer to another school if you were majoring in any other subject. You transfer after your junior year to another school and finish there. However, the bonus is that if you transfer into a 3-2 program, you will still get a Bowdoin degree as well after successfully completing the other 2 years. The difference is you have to handle all the legwork. But no pain, no gain…as you say it could be a terrific opportunity.</p>