<p>I just got accepted to my 2nd choice major and I was wondering if I could change it once i actually enroll at UT.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help :)</p>
<p>probably depends on what the major is</p>
<p>Most colleges will allow you to change majors within your college without much difficulty. (College of Liberal Arts and College of Natural Sciences are the easiest) </p>
<p>If your first choice major is in another college, you must go through the internal transfer application process which varies based upon the college you are applying to.</p>
<p>It is also easy to transfer between majors in liberal arts and majors in natural sciences.</p>
<p>(It is not easy to transfer into one of the other schools.)</p>
<p>Like how hard is it to transfer from the college of geosciences to cockrell for petroleum engineering</p>
<p>I think it is very hard to transfer into Cockrell, at least that’s what I heard. That’s why DS applied for biomedical engineering. He can start there, and if he doesn’t like it, it shouldn’t be as hard to transfer into biology.</p>
<p>Judging by your stats, you may just be able to transfer in by talking to the engineering booth/table at registration. I’m not sure if she still works there, but the person I talked to was Tricia Gore and she let me in. I was also nat sci transferring to eng.</p>
<p>So basically I accept my admissions into UT Austin under my 2nd choice major of Nat Sci and then during registration, I go to the engineering booth and request a change? I talked on the phone with like an admission officer and they said I would be able to talk to my advisor about that so I was wondering if anyone had any details about that. </p>
<p>Basically I am just very paranoid cause I dont want to go to UT for Nat Sci and the only reason i want to go is for its petroleum engineering program. So i was so wondering what is the likelihood that I am actually ABLE to transfer.</p>
<p>It’s not as formal of a procedure as you make it sound. The official method of getting into PE is filling out the online application and waiting for them to rule over your application. These policies are in place to ensure that students they believe can handle the rigor of engineering will be accepted. However, there is some leniency to students who have extremely high scores and credit for indicator courses (i.e. I had already finished my calculus sequence in high school, taking multivariable at my local university and credit for both physics classes and labs via AP) and may be willing to switch you in. If you keep your grades up, you will certainly be able to transfer. When you are able to transfer, however, may not necessarily be for your 1st semester. </p>
<p>Advisors are able to point you to the recommended coursework and enumerate the procedures for transferring, but they have no power to control admissions.</p>
<p>Its been a while since I looked at internal transfer, but UT may require you to have 30 hours before you can transfer. Definitely something to look into.</p>