I applied to UW-Madison in October and they required I select two choices of majors. The first I chose was Chemical Engineering, the second English. My ACT scores for English, reading, and science are 34. My math ACT is 27. My ACT + Writing is 9. So overall, very high English scores, average-to-high math score. Will Madison reject me because I chose Chemical Engineering and don’t have over-the-top math scores? (My grades in math have been Geometry - B, Algebra & Adv. Algebra - A, Trig - A-, and AP Stats - B+. Science grades have always been As.)
Isn’t the point of selecting two majors that you can be accepted to your 2nd choice if not the 1st? So even if you don’t make the cut for ChemE, you could still get into English which should be much less selective. So I’m not seeing how your major choices could have “screwed you over.”
Thank you! I was just reading up on college majors and saw that it’s very difficult to get into college engineering and
*with an engineering major and became concerned m
Perhaps you should switch your priorities. Instead of selecting the right major for a particular college, look at the right colleges for a particular major. What do you want to do the rest of your life? If you attend UW as an English major, would it prepare you for a career that you would be content doing? Or is engineering your first choice for careers? If so, look at other schools where you’d have a higher chance of being accepted.
It is extremely difficult and in some places impossible to transfer into an engineering major because of the prerequisite courses that build upon each other beginning freshman year.
I was looking into going into Law after college. After talking to some lawyers in my family, they all said choose a major that you would enjoy and would be challenging for you in college, then go to law school. So that’s my initial plan
Since you applied to Chemical Engineering as your first choice the college may not think you will go if they let you into the second choice. I think you should change the major. Most colleges let you do that after you send in your application. Apply with your strengths, you can always change majors once you are in college - just make sure you take the required classes and do well in them. The whole point is to get in. Last year when my D applied to colleges she chose biology as her major to a few schools and they mostly deferred her or rejected her. However, the colleges she applied to as an undecided major mostly accepted her. For her, the major choice, made a big difference.
Her English stats were 99% while her science stats were only in the 85’s%.