<p>I was accepted EA for the business school, but now I think I want to do engineering instead.
I have a 3.5 uw and 4.1 w but they should both go up by the end of my sr year
2050 sat math- 710 CR - 670 W - 680</p>
<p>Do you think it's worth trying?</p>
<p>Once accepted, you cannot change until end of freshman year to begin into second. You can discuss options with counselor including requesting to be allowed to take basic courses that engineering students take freshman year rather than business related courses but there is no guarantee you will be accepted for the transfer.</p>
<p>I’ll switch you spots 
I’m in engineering but want to switch to business. </p>
<p>In my opinion, admitted students should be able to write a letter to the admissions office requesting a transfer, since the student hasn’t even started anything yet. If there’s room in the program of choice, then the switch should be granted, and if not, then you would have to wait until the end of freshman year. But I’m just one guy.</p>
<p>there’s a form here that you can use to change your major
[U</a> of I Admissions: Application Change Request Forms](<a href=“http://admissions.illinois.edu/forms/changerequest.html]U”>Page Not Found, Illinois Undergraduate Admissions)
it’s under the Program/Term Change form</p>
<p>^ I think it’s too late to submit one of those. </p>
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<p>nice catch I didn’t see that…
well in any case it’s worth calling them
and if they don’t
just spend your first semester to year as a business major, maintain a decent gpa and they should let you switch over without a problem
it’s all general courses first year anyways</p>
<p>Assumptions being suggested above are incorrect. Neither of you should assume it is going to be easy to switch. In both your cases, you want to switch colleges. That is harder to do than switching majors within a college. That form above had to be submitted by Jan 12 and you would most likely have gotten you nowhere particularly because you want to switch colleges. Submitting that form would have resulted in one automatic event – you would have lost the program you do have. Then the other college would have to decide whether you can switch to its program. That would most likely not be allowed by engineering or business at this time. The result would have been that you would have likely ended up admitted but to the division of general studies as an undeclared major.</p>
<p>You will need to talk to counselor when you go to summer orientation or even before if you can. You are in more of a precarious situation than you may think, particularly deposition who wants to transfer to business from engineering. Switching to business is the hardest switch to make at UIUC. You will most likely be told it cannot be done until after first year and even then the chances of its happening are less than 50%. You will have to take courses that meet business school requirements the first year and counselor will likely suggest that if you really want to pursue that goal, you get out of engineering, into the division of general studies and then just hope for the best but understand that it may not happen.</p>
<p>Switching from business to engineering will be easier but again it will most likely happen only after first year and counselor may also suggest that you accept switching to the division of general studies first so you can take required courses first year engineering students take rather than business students. The key to be being able to switch to engineering is getting high grades particulay in first year math and science courses. If you do so chances of being able to transfer to engineering are high. If you get less than B’s, your chances will be slim to non-existent.</p>
<p>^ Thanks for the info. What does the transferring process entail? Like, what does the transferring committee look for when one wants to switch from engineering to business? High grades and good essays?</p>
<p>When attempting to transfer to business after first year you will go through a full file review. You will have to submit new essays, which you should consider very important. Having very high grades freshman year is not a guarantee for acceptance to business. Median GPA of those taken is about 3.6 with the low range being about 3.2 and they have been known to reject some with 4.0 and you should not assume you will easily get a 3.6. It helps to have the business language requirement completed–reach the fourth college semester level which is equivalent to four years in high school and waived if you already have four years of a single language in high school. At the very least you should have the third semester language level completed (equivalent to three years in high school)… There are required courses that have to be completed in math and economics (also rhetoric which everyone takes). ECs that show leadership will help. In last few years its transfer admission rate has been under 50%. It is mainly driven by seats available. They usually admit enough to have about 550 to 600 enroll freshman year. Business then has a low turnover rate and thus seats available after freshman year are not plentiful.</p>
<p>Transfering to engineering is different. It has prescribed minimum GPA’s starting at 3.0 overall and also in math and science courses and it is higher depending on major. You need to take math and science courses freshman year that regular engineering students take (also rhetoric and helpful to complete third semester level of language which is all you need to graduate from engineering). As long as you are someone who would likely have been admitted to engineering when you applied first year and have all the required courses and grades are minimum or better, your chances of being offered a transfer admission are very high although you might not get the particular program you request. The reason is that engineering tends to have a somewhat higher turnover rate and thus seats available are higher. Also, it is a larger college – it admits at the freshman level to get about 1200 to enroll.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the responses 
But I’m still on the fence on whether or not I even want to switch over. Do you think switching will put me behind in any way?</p>
<p>Also, I’m going to that admitted students day thing in February, so should I ask someone then?</p>
<p>If you read the responses above, you’ll see that while you’re currently admitted to a program, you could end up in DGS and then need to clear the hurdle of applying and being accepted to a program in the future. As for asking someone the same thing in February, if you’d like to hear them repeat what has been stated above, feel free to ask.</p>
<p>Haha true, but I’ll probably end up asking anyway. I just think its dumb that it becomes such a hassle when I could have just put engineering on my app to begin with.</p>