<p>I've come to realize that what I am really interested in is Engineering, not business. So I really want to transfer to a good engineering school but all of them have requirements that I just don't think I'll be able to fill. I would be applying for transfer for the fall 2013 semester and I will be transferring into my college's liberal arts college out of business (I go to Fordham University by the way). Is there any way that I can conceivably get into an engineering school given that this first semester I will be occupied with completely unrelated subjects?</p>
<p>Since you’re transferring anyway, why not just leave Fordham after this semester, go to a CC, and take the prerequisite courses? Why are you want to stay at Fordham when you don’t want to graduate from there? I’m not sure but I don’t see why a major engineering school would be more likely to accept transfer credit from there over a CC.</p>
<p>To transfer into engineering you’ll need to take Calc 1-3, DiffEq, Linear Algebra (depending on where you go and what you major in you might only need DiffEq or Linear Algebra rather than both), Calc-Based Mechanics, Calc-Based E&M, General Chemistry (if you intend to do ChemE or MatSci you will need Orgo 1 and 2 also) and Intro Programming. If you find a program that doesn’t require you have that to transfer in, you will still need to take it there to graduate, so as long as it transfers, you might as well take it wherever.</p>
<p>Transfer and take the classes you actually need.</p>
<p>Hold on, hold on, he might be able to stay at Fordham if that is what he wants - remember that the first year or two of an engineering curriculum includes little or no actual engineering coursework. Fordham may not have engineering but if he checks with his school of interest he may find the courses he needs among the regular offerings in Fordham’s science departments, not to mention the other “general education” courses like English and history!</p>
<p>The important thing is to get ahead of this and start talking with people at the engineering school you want - they can help you in very specific ways that no one on here really can!</p>
<p>Does Fordham offer a 3+2 program and is it too late to transfer into one of those if it does? I’m not an engineer just a dad whose D wants to be one.</p>
<p>Oh, he could definitely stay. But why pay the extra money for the same classes, when the ultimate transfer admissions team will not care whether he came from Fordham or the CC or the grand university of nowhere? </p>
<p>But yes, you can definitely stay if you want and get the classes you need. What you need to do is to take a look at the transfer admissions pages of the schools you are considering, then take all of those classes.</p>