Declaring Majors

Does anyone know if you can transfer into selective (engineering) majors when you come in as undecided sciences? Not sure if my son should attend UMD and hope to transfer into engineering or if he should go to one of the schools where he was accepted into engineering (UDel, Rutgers, FSU, USF). He isn’t 100% sold on engineering, but will definitely pursue something in STEM.

@danielle6849 - At UMD, internal transfer into Engineering are Not competitive. Here is a link about transfers (it’s in the middle of the page)

http://www.lep.umd.edu/engr-lep-after.pdf

Is it worth contacting admissions to see if they can reclassify his acceptance to be for the engineering school?

@happy1 Maybe. I don’t know what we were thinking when we applied undeclared. I guess we thought it would increase his chances, but it really wasn’t a reach, so not sure why we did that.

So would it possible to transfer into an LEP before my first semester begins?

@infinity789 It doesn’t even seem like you would need to. I just read through all of the material. It looks like you can explore some programs and then go into the program of your choice provided you maintain the necessary grades in the prerequisites.

@happy1 - It will not hurt to contact Admissions, but here is an FAQ from the Clark School of Engineering:

"Why would I be listed as a “Letters and Sciences” student if I applied to be an Engineering major?

The Clark School of Engineering receives approximately 3,000 applications each year from talented students who have been admitted to the University of Maryland. Engineering is a Limited Enrollment Program (LEP), and due to class size restrictions and other resource limitations, is not able to admit every student who applies to be an Engineering major as a freshman. As such, the Clark School will typically only admit between 1,700 and 1,800 students each year as direct freshmen admits."

That is 3,000 who selected Engineering as a major out of those admitted to UMD.

An Internal Transfer is a Non-Competitive way of getting into Engineering