<p>This summer, I’ve been seriously reconsidering engineering. I am now thinking about going for a double major in IR and econ, then going to law school. This is not something that I planned to do when I first applied (at the time it was very unlikely I’d be doing something besides engineering/business), but has come up in the past few weeks (although, judging from my strengths and interests, I should have seen it coming a long time ago).</p>
<p>Is it possible for me to transfer before school starts, so I don’t miss out on orientation activities for College students? I’m not definitely doing this, but is a large possibility that I will.</p>
<p>The short answer is no. You'll have to complete a year of engineering, and then have the GPA required to switch over.</p>
<p>As for missing out on orientation activities for College students... don't worry about that, there's nothing you'll miss out on. All that the college has is a really boring panel with a few professors, a few students, and the dean of the college that you have to listen to, plus a tour of campus from your peer advisor... but it's nothing that is going to dramatically change your Penn experience for the next four years.</p>
<p>budddy...i have some sympathy for you. 1 year of engineering ain't easy at all. Your GPA will be much lower than your arts/sciences counterparts. I actually was going to apply to penn engineering ED rather than CAS b/c I thought I had the #s to get into engineering but decided against it when I was speaking to a friend who did the engineering route as a backdoor and he regreted it tremendously. He did make it to the college but had like a 2.8 freshman GPA. Your first semester will look something like Bio, Chem, Calc, and some other stuff.</p>
<p>Actually, you don't necessarily have to follow the engineering curriculum if you're already set on transferring to the College. Just tell your advisor that you want to transfer, and he/she will probably clear you for whatever classes you want to take. You'll probably need to talk to an advisor in IR or Econ about the requirements first though.</p>
<p>The short answer is yes. You simply tell your advisor you want to switch to the College, and you take all your classes as if you are actually in the college. However, you can't officially transfer until your first year is done, but as long as your GPA isn't too horrendous, there shouldn't be any problem. I myself transferred from SEAS to the College, so feel free to ask me any other questions.</p>
<p>We have different interpretations of the original question knightmare :)... silmon, it is possible to take College classes your first year (I never said you couldn't), you just can't completely transfer out of engineering and be officially a college student... thus you also wouldn't get info on the College NSO events (although there are only one, and since they're all listed in a big pamphlet anyway, if you really want to hear the lecture you could just go there instead of the engineering function)</p>
<p>Haha yeah that is very true - for NSO considerations, you can't switch out of SEAS. Word of warning though, those NSO functions are very skippable. In the engineering ones, you spend hours looking at post-graduate salaries, learning how Penn Enginnering is actually the best sk00L in the universe, how it invented the computer, etc. etc. Though the free food is good ;)</p>
<p>As for why I switched out...bioengineering at penn turned out to be different than what I thought it was. Also, I found the engineering curriculum to be too inflexible in allowing one to pursue a broad range of interesting liberal arts courses too, and the workload for BE anyway was a little too intense for my liking, and didn't leave a whole lot of free time for other stuff.</p>